The Senate is slogging through an overnight session as Republican leaders search for ways to secure support for President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts

Most GOP senators who confronted Trump during his first term – Arizona’s Jeff Flake, Tennessee’s Bob Corker and Utah’s Mitt Romney, who was the only Republican to vote to convict Trump in both of his Senate impeachment trials – have long since stepped aside. Tillis bristled at those comparisons.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis’ announcement over the weekend that he won’t seek reelection is heating up the campaign on both sides of the aisle