WASHINGTON — A budget resolution passed Thursday night in the U.S. Senate doesn’t “reflect conversations” with the president, a senator from West Virginia said.

“In my conversations with President Trump we have discussed our shared goal of ensuring any tax reform package passes with both Republican and Democratic votes and focuses on providing tax relief for working Americans,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said. “The current tax reform proposal is the work of (Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.) and does not reflect my conversations with the president.”

Manchin in September had dinner with Trump, who, according to Manchin, said his tax reform plan would not be a tax cut for the wealthy and would benefit the middle class.

Passage of the budget resolution will make it difficult to pass bipartisan tax reform, Manchin said in a statement.

“I urge my Republican colleagues to listen to the president and work with me to pass long-term bipartisan tax reform,” Manchin said.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia voted for the resolution, which passed 51-49. Manchin voted against while Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the only Republican voting against.

Among provisions in the budget resolution are a $1.5 trillion tax cut and allowing oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. It enables Republicans, which control the Senate, to pass a tax reform with a 51-vote simple majority.

The resolution was an “an essential step” toward tax reform and economic growth, Capito said.

“Failure to pass this budget resolution would have doomed our efforts to work with President Trump to deliver tax reform for the American people,” she said.

“A vote against the resolution is a vote to stop pro-growth tax reform in its tracks, and continue the economic stagnation that became the new normal during the Obama administration,” she said. “I am also glad the Senate voted to adopt my amendment to make sure hard-working middle-class Americans are a top priority as we begin our work on tax reform.”

However, Manchin said the proposal cuts $472 billion from Medicare and increases the deficit by $1.5 trillion.

“I’m embarrassed that this body voted to saddle our children with more debt while slashing funding for a program that is crucially important to West Virginia’s seniors,” he said. “This budget also paves the way for Senate Republicans to pass tax reform without any bipartisan input with a simple 51-vote majority.”

Manchin said the budget hurts West Virginians through cuts to Medicare over the next 10 years, cuts to heating assistance programs, cuts in WIC benefits, cuts to Head Start and Early Head Start, eliminates the Appalachian Regional Commission, cuts the Essential Air Service program impacting airports including Wood County and gives tax cuts for the top 1 percent while failing to assist middle- to low-income families.

The House may take up the budget as early as next week.

“Once the Senate and House budget resolutions are reconciled, we will have an opportunity to deliver responsible tax reform legislation that will lead to more jobs and higher wages in West Virginia and across the country,” he said. “There is still much work to be done to make tax reform a reality for American families and small businesses, but I am very happy to support this step forward, rather than cut off the path to economic prosperity.”

The budget resolution passed by the Senate is a step closer to $1.5 trillion in tax cuts mostly for the wealthy and corporations “while making low- and middle-income Americans foot the bill,” Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, said.

“We call on Senator Capito to oppose any plan with tax cuts for the wealthy and profitable corporations that would force cuts to programs that help everyday Americans make ends meet and get ahead,” he said.