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News — Senators will get a security briefing from the Sergeant at Arms & Capitol Police on Tuesday morning. Was requested by Thune & Schumer after Minnesota assassination

New in AM: The battle over a $12B revenue raiser in the House tax bill is dividing the tobacco industry & sparking a fight between MAGA figures and TILLIS It all revolves around new limits on duty drawbacks for tobacco. NC R’s working to kill the pay-for w/ Andrew Desiderio

MAGA world figures are going after Sen. Thom Tillis again — but this time it’s over a tobacco tax provision he and fellow NC Sen. Ted Budd are trying to scrap from the House-passed reconciliation bill Story w/ Laura Weiss on the bizarre fight: punchbowl.news/article/financ…

News in Punchbowl News AM: Sen. Tim Kaine is unveiling a war powers resolution on the Iran-Israel conflict, seeking to force the Senate to vote on U.S. involvement.

NEWS: Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation text will include a $10K SALT cap This sets up a huge SALT clash. Blue-state House R’s struck a deal for $40K cap and don’t view it as negotiable Vault subscribers got the news first via text More w/ Andrew Desiderio Jake Sherman

BREAKING NEWS: The Senate Finance Committee's tax and health text for reconciliation is OUT NOW Read the full 549 pages of Finance Republicans' legislative text here - punchbowl.news/finance_commit… Here's the section by section - punchbowl.news/finance_commit…

Senate R's propose a bigger provider tax crackdown than the House version. Senate version phases down the provider tax rate for Medicaid expansion states to 3.5% by FY2031

“Obviously there’s a difference of opinion about what happened,” Thune says of Padilla incident in LA. Says he’s spoken with Padilla, Noem & Sergeant-at-Arms to gather info. Notable he’s still not leaning into any sort of criticism of Padilla

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Ron Johnson is not pleased with the Finance text, says there’s a long way to go for him to support the bill. Adds he can’t vote for the package in its current form as it doesn’t cut the deficit enough

Notable support from Tillis, who pushed for gentler IRA clean energy tax credit repeals. Finance text goes lighter on IRA clean energy tax credit cuts overall Senate also drops new limits on duty drawbacks for tobacco companies that Tillis and fellow NC senator Budd opposed

Spoke with Sen. Padilla again. He said he’s going to follow up with Senate leadership & colleagues in both parties and he’ll “have more to say on what happened and what comes next in the coming days”

Scoop: The Senate GOP Conference will distribute polling data from a Cotton-backed group to R senators showing overwhelming support among R voters for Israel’s strikes on Iran. Goal is to push back on notion there’s a MAGA vs. hawk split on Iran/nukes punchbowl.news/archive/61625-…

Sen. Hawley after GOP Conference meeting says he’s “alarmed” by Medicaid changes in Senate reconciliation text. He says it will “defund rural hospitals in order to, what, pay for solar panels in China.” “I’d be really interested to see what the president thinks about this”

Sen. Cornyn says “this is way too complicated to be talking about it in the hallway” — re: reconciliation.

American Hospital Association sending this statement to Senate offices tonight in response to Finance Committee’s reconciliation bill text. Calls Medicaid provisions “harmful” and says will force hospitals, especially in rural areas, to consider shutting down