This time, Senate Republicans were dead-set on making an expensive suite of pro-growth business tax cuts permanent. That required finding deep offsetting cuts, and the cold, hard calculus by the Senate GOP’s chief architects was that enough of their 53-member conference would ultimately swallow their protests and go along.

The fight over the federal budget bill known as One Big Beautiful Bill moves back to the House, where it is expected to face challenges given changes that were made on the Senate side. CBS News has this update.