US senator withdraws from election after disagreement with Trump.
Republican Senator Tom Tillis has withdrawn from the upcoming Senate race, a day after opposing President Donald Trump’s new tax bill.
Republican senators voted narrowly to advance President Donald Trump’s tax cut bill in a tense session on Tuesday.
The 940-page bill, which aims to implement President Trump’s plans, passed the House by a vote of 51-49 despite opposition from two Republican senators.
Senator Tillis of North Carolina was one of the Republicans who opposed President Donald Trump’s proposed budget and tax cuts yesterday. He believes the legislation would cut $38.9 trillion in federal funding for his state’s Medicaid program, which provides health care to low-income people.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who opposes the bill’s provision to raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, was another Republican who opposed the bill.
In the end, Senate Republican leader Senator John Thune managed to score a major victory, bringing the bill a big step closer to final passage.