The Senate narrowly approved President Donald Trump's signature second-term policy bill, a nearly 900-page package packed with tax cuts and other campaign promises, in a major legislative victory for the president that came after a tense debate within his party that stretched on for nearly four days.

A bleary-eyed Lisa Murkowski exited the Republican whip’s office early Tuesday morning with a coffee in hand, after more than 24 straight hours of backroom negotiations over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and his lieutenants still have work to do with the House to meet a July 4 deadline to get the tax bill to President Donald Trump's desk for his signing. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post) You could argue that the easy part is over.