A Midnight Deal, a Mountain of Debt After weeks of partisan theater and closed-door haggling, Republican Senate leaders finalized a 940-page monstrosity just before midnight Friday—a bill that aims to codify a raft of Trump campaign pledges, expand corporate giveaways, and casually tack another $5 trillion onto America’s already unsustainable debt load. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is hustling to jam it through with a procedural vote as early as Saturday afternoon, all while privately admitting he doesn’t know if he has the votes. It’s a fitting spectacle: a razor-thin majority racing to pass a bill so bloated and so riddled with carve-outs that even seasoned fiscal hawks are balking. But the pressure is on to ram this behemoth onto…
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