An amended version of the House-passed Trump budget was voted on at the end of a marathon vote series in the Senate. (Reuters)
The scoring tool essentially means the cost of making Trump's tax cuts permanent would be factored at $0 because it extends current policy, rather than counting it as new dollars being added to the federal deficit.
Budget reconciliation lowers the vote threshold in the Senate from 60 to 51, which lets Republicans approve certain priorities with no Democrat support.
Washington's Republican trifecta thus sees reconciliation as a key tool for delivering on Trump agenda items.
REPUBLICANS CHARGE AHEAD ON TRUMP BUDGET, SETTING UP MARATHON SENATE VOTES
The Senate "vote-a-rama" Friday deals with the House-passed budget bill as Republicans hope to get a bill to the president's desk. (Fox News Digital/Trump-Vance Transition Team)
The budget would address border funding for the Trump administration as well as extend the hallmark tax cuts Trump passed in 2017.
Initially, there was stark disagreement between Republicans in the House and Senate on how to organize a budget reconciliation resolution. The House GOP leaders preferred one bill with both the border and taxes included, while those in the Senate wanted to have two separate resolutions for them.
Republicans aren't necessarily on the same page just yet about budget reconciliation. (Reuters)
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But the House's approach ultimately won out, with Trump supporting their plan.
Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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