General Discussion

The Senate version of "the bill" is DIFFERENT from the House version so one of 2 things need to happen -

1.) If the Senate version passes and goes to the House for a vote, it could very well die right there and then get modified again and so on and so on, back and forth

-OR-

2.) The 2 chambers end up setting up a "Joint Conference Committee", with members from both chambers, to try to work out ONE BILL for both chambers to vote on. That's generally what has to happen with these big reconciliation bills.

They have a ridiculous "July 4th" deadline when even their first 2017 tax cuts for the rich (which is what they are trying to extend with this effort) didn't get over the finish line until the end of the 2017 calendar year.

And back in 2017, the House split was 193 (D) - 239 (R) with 3 vacancies, so they had lots of wiggle room. The Senate was similar to now except by a split of 48 (D)/(I) - 52 (R).