WASHINGTON (AP) — The political battle lines are drawn for a debate in Washington and beyond over a Republican budget plan that’s a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.
With the plan’s approval by the GOP-controlled Senate in a vote that ended early Saturday, Republicans hope to leverage their position of power in Washington to enact as much as $7 trillion in tax breaks, boost border security for mass deportations and cut government funding — and do so “without one single Democratic vote,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the Senate Budget Committee chairman.
Democrats, as the minority party, were unable to halt the budget plan. But during the late-night session,
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