"It went from great to mean. In the Rose Garden it was 'great.' Now, just a few weeks later, that same great bill is 'mean,' " Franken said from the Senate floor.

Several Democratic senators have referenced Trump's comments made to Senate Republicans during a closed-door meeting last week, during which he knocked the House bill and urged senators to be more generous.

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The comments were a reversal from those Trump made during a press conference with House Republicans celebrating their vote to pass the bill, when he called it a "great plan."

Franken added during a late-night Senate talkathon that there would be a large amount of overlap between the House and Senate bills, "but we can't be sure because the Senate has had precisely zero hearings, zero days of public floor debate."