Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters that he thinks he has a deal with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” The Hill reports.

Asked if he had a deal as he walked from the Senate floor to his office, Thune replied: “I believe we do.”

He added: “But, like I said, I’m of Scandinavian heritage, so I’m always a bit of a realist. We’ll see what happens.”

New York Times: “Republican leaders have said senators should plan to be in their seats soon for voting to resume. Asking senators to take their seats usually occurs only on big votes like the one upcoming.”

Andrew Egger: “There have been three driving forces behind this bill. The first has been the ‘pass something or everyone’s taxes go up’ pressure created by the soon-to-expire 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The second has been President Donald Trump, who took a shine to the simplicity of slamming together a bunch of things he wanted done into a single package and who has imposed an artificial deadline of July 4. And the third is the Senate’s utterly dysfunctional procedures surrounding the filibuster, which make it basically impossible for majorities to pass new laws unless they get significant minority buy-in or glue them together into a ‘budget reconciliation’ package that doesn’t need 60 votes.”

“What we’re left with is a bill that’s bigger than big and anything but beautiful. Although maybe it overstates it to even say we have a bill. As the Senate barrels to a vote (we think) they’re still crafting the actual text of the legislation. There will be no hearings, no comprehensive analysis, and certainly not enough time to read the thing. Whether it will pass now depends on whether Senate leaders can find a sweetener good enough to woo one of the four remaining Republican holdouts. Would any other institution operate in this way?”

New York Times: “Voting in the Senate has ground to a halt for now, and GOP leaders are using a procedural tool — in this case a quorum call — to buy time for negotiations to continue. They are focused on winning the vote of Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.”

“Senate Republicans are struggling to pass President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill, with GOP leaders still scrambling to secure 50 votes after a marathon overnight voting session that by Tuesday morning appeared to bring the bill no closer to final passage,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump has demanded that Congress send the bill — Trump’s top legislative priority — to his desk by July 4, but that deadline seemed to be slipping from reach Tuesday. Even if the Senate passes the $3.3 trillion bill, House Republicans would still need to overcome their own divisions and pass it again before Trump can sign it.”

“The Senate has started voting on their 45th amendment or procedural motion to the GOP megabill. That breaks the record for the most votes during a ‘vote-a-rama‘ — a marathon session provided for under the law governing the budget process in the Senate,” Politico reports.

“The previous record was 44 amendments offered during a budget resolution in 2008.”