After an all-night session mostly consumed with voting down Democratic amendments, the U.S. Senate passed Donald Trump’s budget-reconciliation megabill by the smallest-possible margin: 51-50, with Vice-President J.D. Vance breaking a tie. Three Republicans — Susan Collins, Rand Paul, and Thom Tillis — voted no. The key breakthrough occurred when the GOP leadership worked out enough special provisions to help Alaska avoid Medicaid, SNAP, and clean-energy cuts to nail down the vote of Lisa Murkowski. Her

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