After more than an hour of debate, the Senate passed Senate Bill 3095 mostly by party lines. Despite the idea of a tax cut being a sticking point for GOP leadership this year, some Republicans voted against the bill, noting that it did not lower taxes on Mississippians but raised them on the gas tax.

The U.S. Senate passed a Republican bill promoting President Donald Trump's immigration, energy and defense policies in the early hours of Friday morning, despite Trump's preference for a House of Representatives version of the bill that would include trillions of dollars in tax cuts.

U.S. Senate Republicans plan to push ahead on Thursday on a bill to advance President Donald Trump's priorities on immigration, energy and defense, even after he urged them to scrap that effort in favor of a House bill that would also include trillions of dollars in tax cuts.