Senate barrels toward ‘aspirational’ Saturday vote on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

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The Senate is working to tie up loose ends on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” ahead of a high-stakes vote planned for Saturday.

Republicans left a Friday lunch telling reporters the Senate would vote at noon to advance the legislation, an aggressive timetable that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) later called “aspirational.”

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