Watch live: WH holds news briefing as Senate budget vote looms

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will answer questions from reporters on Thursday afternoon.

The briefing comes as the Senate is set to vote on its 2018 budget resolution, a key step toward ultimately delivering on Republicans’ top agenda item: tax reform.

Trump earlier Thursday predicted the Senate would pass its budget resolution.

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“It will be successful tonight,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I think we have the votes for the budget.”

The resolution, which the Senate is expected to take up Thursday night or early Friday morning, contains language that would allow the Senate to pass tax legislation with a simple majority vote, allowing Republicans to sidestep a Democratic filibuster.

The briefing is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.

Watch live in the video above.