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Senate Republicans are continuing their push to get the budget reconciliation bill on the floor by the weekend. But on Wednesday GOP senators were continuing to struggle over how to help rural hospitals deal with the bill’s Medicaid funding cuts.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Patty Murray announced Thursday that the energy and navigation benefits currently provided by four dams on the lower Snake River would need to be replaced before they will support breaching them to restore salmon populations.

Breaching four dams on the Lower Snake River and replacing the services they provide to the Pacific Northwest could cost between $10.3 billion and $27.2 billion, according to a draft report commissioned by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Patty Murray.