Vice President JD Vance once again cast the tiebreaking vote to advance the bill to codify the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts in the narrowly divided Senate (50-50).

Republicans lost three votes, as they sided with the 45 Democrats and two independents to try to stop the bill from moving on to debate, and potentially, a final vote as early as Wednesday.

Long voting against President Donald Trump’s urgings, Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined with Democrats in voting against the Senate taking up the measure.

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