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Friday's vote caps days of drama, as Senate Democrats faced intense pressure from their House counterparts and the party's progressive wing to oppose the House GOP's bill, which would fund the ...

has backed seven of the 21 Trump Cabinet nominees that the full Senate has taken up so far ... of the Treasury is Elon Musk.” “Let us understand that reality and not play along with this ...