Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who voted against the bill, said Republicans could have won his vote by changing a provision related to the government’s legal borrowing limit, but they chose “pork and subsidies for Alaska” instead. Asked about Paul’s comment by NBC News, Murkowski froze and gave a reporter a death stare.

Murkowski — who cast the decisive vote to pass Trump's "Big Beautiful" bill — got into a tense confrontation with a reporter questioning her about the big vote.