GOP leaders hope to vote this week, but they still need to work through key issues across both chambers on Medicaid, clean energy and state and local tax deductions.

President Donald Trump and his allies in the Senate face a political free-for-all over passage of his sweeping tax-cut and spending legislation, which Republican congressional leaders hope to enact in coming days despite growing resistance from different party factions.

WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump urged fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to advance his sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, as party hardliners and moderates squabbled over proposed spending cuts.