Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is doing what he can to get President Donald Trump’s budget plan over the finish line.

Thune and Senate Budget Committee Republicans met with Trump as the upper chamber prepares to vote on the resolution later this week, Punchbowl News reported.

Senate leadership is contemplating giving the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee each a $1.5 trillion for spending within their jurisdictions in the compromise budget, reflecting the $3.8 trillion cost of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts, Punchbowl reported.

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