Senate Republicans always expected a “very spirited debate” over the massive tax-and-spending bill championed by President Donald Trump, but “we always knew we’d get it done,” and it’s time for the party to approve it, Sen. Markwayne Mullin told Newsmax. 

“We have a bunch of senators here from different states that have different ideas, and that’s why we’ve had over 51 full conference meetings on this one big, beautiful bill,” the Oklahoma Republican said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “We’ve had literally hundreds of individual meetings, meaning that inside committees that have jurisdiction over this.”

And now that lawmakers voted to proceed, they’ll move into the amendment process, which isn’t part of the hourslong reading of the bill, he said.

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