Late on Saturday, the Republican-led Senate advanced the package following a dramatic, drawn-out

process that spanned hours, bringing it one step closer to passage.

It narrowly advanced after Majority Leader John Thune and Vice President J.D. Vance struck

a deal with the holdouts. Trump also stayed in Washington over the weekend to engage in the

web effort, calling senators and hosting meetings. Ultimately, the vote was 51-49,

with two Republicans, Senator Tom Tillis, who you heard earlier, and Rand Paul,

joining all the Democrats in opposition. Yesterday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office published its analysis of the bill,

saying it would increase the national debt by $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years. It's also projected

that the proposed legislation would lead to more than 11 million people losing their health insurance by the year 2034.

Minority leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor on Sunday,

accusing Republicans of falsifying the math to get the bill across the finish line.

This piece of legislation is corrupt.

This piece of legislation is crooked. This piece of legislation is crooked this piece of legislation is crooked

this piece of legislation is a rotten racket this place feels to me today like a crime

scene get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber. The midnight transfer

of wealth in this bill is disgusting. On health care and betraying a promise, it is is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald

J. Trump made in the Oval Office or in the cabinet room when I was there with finance

where he said we can go after waste, fraud, and abuse on any

programs.

Now, those amateurs that are advising him, not Dr. Oz, I'm talking about White House health

care experts, refused to tell him that those instructions that were to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse,

all of a sudden eliminates a government program that's called the provider tax.

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