President Donald Trump undoubtedly has Senate Republicans on his side as far as his agenda is concerned.

According to the Daily Caller, the GOP-led Senate, after a marathon session, helped pass a "budget blueprint encompassing many of President Donald Trump’s legislative priorities."

The bill included a permanent extension of the 2017 tax cuts package Trump had passed in 2017, along with a $175 billion in new spending to further his border security ambitions.

The bill was passed with a 51-48 vote, thanks to the Republican majority in the upper chamber. The bill will now make its way to the GOP-led House, where the president hopes to have the same success.

What happened?

After what was described as a "marathon" debate session in the upper chamber, the bill was finally passed at around 2:30 in the morning, with Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine the only Republicans to oppose it.

The Daily Caller noted:

The budget blueprint’s passage at roughly 2:30 a.m. came after a marathon series of votes known as a “vote-a-rama” during which Senate Democrats forced their Republican colleagues to take politically contentious votes on amendments related to entitlement program spending, Department of Government Efficiency actions and Trump’s tariffs.

To counter Democratic opposition, Republicans argued that "the forthcoming tax and spending bill that would be unlocked with passage of the budget resolution by both chambers would not cut Americans’ Medicaid or Medicare benefits."

Many Democrats have pushed the false narrative that Trump is seeking to end Medicaid and even Medicare benefits, as it seems to get a rise out of their base without anyone bothering to fact-check it.

Republican Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo made it clear on the Senate floor that such programs would not be cut.

"The argument is going to be made that we’re going to hurt all kinds of different people tonight in different ways,” Crapo said.

He added, "But the reality is that’s not going to happen. The President has been very clear any reforms to Medicare or Medicaid must not reduce patient benefits."

GOP resistance

It's understandable, if not sad, that Sen. Collins voted against the bill, as she would likely do it just to spite Trump.

But Sen. Rand Paul explained that he couldn't support the bill given that it included a $5 trillion increase in the statutory debt limit, which he made clear on the Senate floor.

"If we expand the debt at $5 trillion that will be an expansion of the debt equal to or exceeding everything that happened in the Biden years," Paul said. "Republicans who vote for this will be on record as being more fiscally liberal than their counterparts. They will vote to borrow more money than the Democrats have ever borrowed."