WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate slogged through a tense overnight session that dragged into Tuesday, with Republican leaders searching for ways to secure support for President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts while fending off proposed amendments, mostly from Democrats trying to defeat the package.

The measure, Trump's top legislative goal, passed in a 51-50 vote, after Vice President JD Vance cast the tiebreaking vote. The megabill would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were Trump's main legislative achievement during his first term as president,

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to pass a wide-ranging tax-cut and spending bill sought by President Donald Trump, which would cut Medicaid healthcare and food assistance programs for the poor and disabled.