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This is cobbled together from a variety of sources, with a timeline of how the Senate will try to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” this weekend, and the House will try to align next week.
Fox is told the Senate will likely not move to take a procedural vote to formally get on the bill until Friday. That will require 20 hours of debate/clock time run in the Senate once they get onto the bill. The procedural vote only needs a simple majority.
The 20 hours of debate/clock time is split. Democrats will probably burn all 10 of their hours. Republicans will use a few. So, the Senate probably begins its “vote-a-rama” on the bill late Friday night or into the wee hours of Saturday morning.
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Fox is told the Senate will likely not move to take a procedural vote to formally get on the bill until Friday. (Getty Images)
A “vote-a-rama” is where the Senate takes hours and hours of consecutive roll call votes on the package.
It’s likely the Senate starts this lengthy voting sequence late Friday, early Saturday morning (meaning just after midnight) and continues until late Saturday, if not the early hours of Sunday morning.
It would culminate with passage of the bill in the Senate late Saturday or early Sunday.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Getty Images)
Not that it is impossible to figure out when this could happen. But, frankly, a final vote could come at any time of the day or night…
