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The protests were generally reported as peaceful, although Representative Suhas Subramanyam, a Democrat, posted a video on X of a man holding a Trump sign and pushing through a crowd to angrily confront him.

He also denied that the scale of the challenge is being exaggerated to push through reform, as staff unions have claimed.

The parties had already signalled their urgency last month, when they pushed through significant reform of Germany's strict debt rules.

Instead, with high-functioning depression “you push through and you don’t deal with your pain because too many people depend on you,” she said.

Now when you strip away the procedures and the calculations, it’s clear what’s happening: Senate Republicans are pushing through a tax cut for the wealthy that will blow up the country’s debt.