The Senate vote is one big step in a long process. And the debate revealed intra-party tension over key issues like Medicaid, tax-cut strategy and the debt.

After about six hours of amendment votes, the Senate approved a budget blueprint Saturday morning by a vote of 51-48.

Speaker Mike Johnson is rallying House Republicans around the reconciliation process after the Senate passed its own version of such a bill.

The budget resolution also sets the stage for the House to raise the debt limit by $4 trillion and the Senate to lift it by not more than $5 trillion in the reconciliation package.

Senate Republicans got over the first procedural hurdle Thursday on their revised budget plan needed to move forward on a reconciliation bill.

Senate Republicans are pushing to adopt a budget blueprint this week to kick off a complex process to advance President Trump’s tax agenda. The framework follows weeks of bicameral negotiations

Republicans in the Senate started the process for passing a new version of President Donald Trump's budget to tackle the southern border and extend the 2017 tax cuts.

The Senate voted 52-48 to begin debate on a multitrillion-dollar plan that would cut taxes, boost spending for immigration enforcement and the military and raise the debt limit.