Senate begins debate on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Trump suggested that over the past week more countries have signaled that they would like to join the Abraham Accords and at one point he thought Iran would.

“Yes, so we have some really great countries in there right now, and I think we're going to start loading them up because Iran was the primary problem," Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” "I actually thought Iran would, I actually, we had a period of time where I thought Iran would join the Abraham Accords along with everybody else, and frankly they would have been better off than where they are right now.”

When pressed if Syria would join, Trump mentioned that his administration eased sanctions on Syria in recent weeks, specifically following the fall of the Assad regime in December, and left the door open.

“Well, I don't know, but I did take off the sanctions at the request of some of the other countries in the area that are friends of ours. I took off the sanction on Syria to give them a chance at, you know, the sanctions are biting. They're very strong. And we have sanctions on Iran, too,” he said.

-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh

Trump said Sunday that B-2 pilots from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri who flew the mission against Iran are expected to visit the White House.

Asked during a sit-down interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” host Maria Bartiromo asked the president, “Are you going to do something for them?”

“Yes, they're going to come to the White House,” Trump said. “But what you said is right --these people flew 36 hours in a small space, a big plane, but a small spaces, mostly occupied by bombs, and they flew so brilliantly.”

“And they hit a target the size of this circle. They, a little target, they say half the size of a refrigerator door from 50,000 feet up in the air. Going at a rapid speed, because they're going very fast when they're over a pretty rough territory. And they hit it every single time. And then they knocked out two other sites aside from that,” Trump said.

-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh

President Donald Trump celebrated the Senate's advancement of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and acknowledged earlier holdouts -- Sens. Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Cynthia Lummis -- for casting their votes in favor of the bill in social media posts early Sunday.

"Tonight, we saw a GREAT VICTORY in the Senate with the 'GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,' but, it wouldn't have happened without the Fantastic Work of Senator Rick Scott, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Cynthia Lummis," Trump wrote.

"They, along with all of the other Republican Patriots who voted for the Bill, are people who genuinely love our Country!" he added.

In a second post, Trump wrote, "VERY PROUD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TONIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!"

In a previous post late on Saturday night, Trump urged the Republican Party to unite and expressed frustration over "grandstanders."

"Republicans must remember that they are fighting against a very evil, corrupt and, in many ways, incompetent (Policywise!) group of people, who would rather see our Country "go down in flames" than do the right thing and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote, suggesting that Democrats are more united.

"The one thing they do have is an ability to stick together, and vote as one group (They don't have GRANDSTANDERS!)," he continued.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

After a bloc of four conservative "Big Beautiful Bill" holdouts finally voted late on Saturday night to move the legislation in a direction towards final passage, they claimed that negotiations with Republican leaders surrounding deficit reduction and Medicaid changes helped them feel "more comfortable" with its advancement.

"It was a beautiful night for the Big Beautiful Bill," Sen. Eric Schmitt, a key negotiator during meetings on Saturday, said after the vote.

Still, Sens. Ron Johnson -- who flipped his vote, Rick Scott, Cynthia Lummis and Mike Lee did not tell reporters whether they'd support the final bill, even after huddling with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Vice President J.D. Vance, Majority Whip John Barrasso and some others during the over three hour vote.

Most of the four conservatives were tight-lipped about their negotiations with leadership after voting, but Johnson said that they were promised a vote on an amendment that would lower the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage match provided to able-bodied, childless people who are new enrollees to Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

"We want to preserve Medicaid for disabled children," Johnson said. "I never had a problem with the House bill in terms of avoiding a massive tax increase, default funding for the border, for defense, the spending reductions they did get. My big beef there is…again, we still have to do so much more, because it's hard, okay, because it's such an enormous mess," he added, blaming years of Democratic policies like Obamacare.

Johnson said that the promised amendment was Scott's idea.

Lummis and Lee said that talks over their concerns about further deficit reductions and tax cuts help them get to a "yes" vote.

"We had an internal discussion about a strategy to achieve more savings, more deficit reduction," Lee said after the vote, adding that he's "more comfortable" now with the bill.

All agreed on the need for "as many tax cuts" and "as much spending clarity" as possible, Lummis said.

"I want to thank Vice President Vance for coming up and President Trump for his help in getting to yes, and we've got a good product, and we're going to promote it and pass it this week," she said.

-ABC News' Isabella Murray