It was the exact opposite of what nearly everyone on Capitol Hill expected.
Rather than soften its edges, Senate Republicans took the sprawling Republican megabill the House sent them and sharpened it further, making the heart of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda more politically explosive.
GOP senators made steeper cuts to Medicaid, hastened cuts to wind and solar energy tax credits and also managed to add hundreds of billions of dollars more to the deficit compared to the House plan.
Usually, it’s far-right conservatives in the House proposing politically precarious policies, leaving the careful moderates in the Senate — the…
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