WASHINGTON _ President Donald Trump said Sunday that Sen. John McCain, who is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, was returning home to Arizona for the holidays but would come back to Washington if needed to cast a vote on the Republicans' tax overhaul bill.
The Arizona Republican's office announced last week that McCain was receiving treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington for complications from his cancer treatment. McCain's daughter Meghan tweeted earlier Sunday that her 81-year-old father would be spending Christmas in Arizona.
The Senate is expected to vote early this week on the tax-cut legislation, but the GOP appeared to have secured sufficient support without McCain's vote.
"John will come back if we need his vote," Trump told reporters as he returned from a weekend at the presidential retreat at Camp David. "He's going through a very tough time."
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