Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska convinced Senate leaders to change their massive tax and spending cuts package to benefit her state and eventually voted for the legislation, ensuring its pass

Senate Republicans can afford to lose no more than three of their own votes on the bill, but two already are opposed and others remained undecided.

Susan Collins (R., Maine) likely to vote “no,” the senior senator from Alaska was the pivotal vote for Trump’s legislative agenda. Murkowski, a patient and often inscrutable moderate Republican, was dead set on amending the bill to benefit her constituents and softening the blow from spending cuts in the package.