The Senate voted Wednesday to approve procedural changes that allow it to take up three joint resolutions that would vacate EPA waivers.

The 2026 midterms will prove crucial to Democrats and Republicans as both chambers of Congress hang in the balance.

Nev., called up the bipartisan bill for immediate passage, and no senator objected. The measure now goes to the House.

The Republican-led Senate moved Wednesday to overturn key Biden-era waivers allowing California to set its own vehicle emissions, a major blow to that state’s effort to regulate pollution from cars and trucks that could have broad environmental impacts for the rest of the country.

The measure would boost funding for border security and the Defense Department, eliminate taxes on tips and overtime, provide a new tax deduction to seniors and renew the 2017 tax cuts passed during the first Trump administration.

The state Senate remained in session until almost 10:30 pm Wednesday at the insistence of Senate President Cameron Henry, who said immediately afterward that he wanted his chamber to finish its work on contentious car insurance bills. The Senate needs to begin focusing on the annual budget debate next week, Henry, R-Metairie, added.

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