The Senate on Monday voted to give Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., sole authority in determining whether provisions of the tax cut and spending megabill violate the 1974 Congressional Budget Act or other budget laws.

A 53-47 vote along party lines supported a ruling that Graham, as Budget chair, has final say on the matter.

Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., who was presiding over the upper chamber at the time, ruled that the chair will not sustain any budgetary points of order against President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” unless Graham says they are valid objections.

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