The clash over the "big, beautiful bill" also underscores significant fractures within the GOP on key policy initiatives.

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The former allies lashed out at each other over Trump’s sweeping tax and domestic policy bill in the long hours before it passed the Senate on July 1. The bill would ramp up border security spending, make permanent Trump's 2017 tax reductions and cut $1 trillion from Medicaid.