Senate Republicans pushed a mammoth budget reconciliation bill through their chamber Tuesday morning over vehement Democratic objections.

Education experts say it will stick colleges with burdensome taxes and strip away critical student protections, but the Senate version did soften some of the House’s most damaging proposals.

US Senators have spent more than 24 hours negotiating amendments to a mega-bill on tax and spending that appears to have stalled without enough votes to pass. Four Republicans in the Senate have said they cannot support the nearly 1,