Senate Votes to Begin Debate on Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Package

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks on the phone as he walks back to his office in the U.S. Capitol building on Aug. 5, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) moved quickly on Tuesday to advance Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution bill, coming soon after the Senate voted to pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure measure.

No GOP senators voted in favor of the budget measure, although 19 of them voted for the infrastructure measure.