Senators will likely forfeit their weekend as Republican leaders contend with GOP holdouts and policy setbacks on President Donald Trump’s tax and spending proposal.

Balancing fiscal hawks concerned about increasing the national debt and “Medicaid moderates” opposed to slashing the low-income government healthcare program is complicating the Senate GOP’s path to passing the filibuster-skirting bill.

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