Washington — The Senate is taking up the massive budget package containing President Trump's second-term agenda , a measure that squeaked through the House in May with a one-vote margin, solely with Republican votes. Its path through the Senate seems destined to be similarly narrow, with the package almost certain to be revised, since parts of it are opposed by a handful of GOP senators critical to its passage.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, recently ventured to the other side of the U.S. Capitol to remind Republican senators "that we are one team" and pleaded with them to keep the bill substantially intact.

"I encouraged them to make as few modifications as possible, remembering that I have a very delicate balance on our very diverse Republican ca

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