House Republican hardliners demand big changes to Trump bill as Democrats urge holdouts to vote no on spending package – live

Most vocal critics of president’s tax and spending bill remain opposed as Trump-imposed deadline looms

Donald Trump on Tuesday toured “Alligator Alcatraz”, a controversial new migrant detention jail in the remote Florida Everglades, and celebrated the harsh conditions that people sent there would experience.

The president was chaperoned by Florida’s hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, who hailed the tented camp on mosquito-infested land 50 miles west of Miami as an example for other states that supported Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

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