Hello, everybody and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report. Dr. Paul is away today.

We are heading into a big holiday weekend. I will inform you that the Liberty Report will be taking a vacation tomorrow.

So we can all be outside by the pool, what have you. But I do want to do a little briefing today because today is the day. The big beautiful bill will be passing. In fact, as we speak, they're readying for final vote on the floor. There are a couple of procedural issues going on right now, but they will soon be dispensed with.

Now, let's have a recap of what happened.

Overnight, there was a vote on the rule.

A lot of people don't understand what a vote on the rule is.

No bill can be brought to the floor until a rule is passed.

And what a rule does, it defines the parameters of the debate.

How long does the debate last can

members come down how much time can they claim are amendments allowed are they not allowed this

sort of thing it sort of defines how the debate goes generally speaking a rule vote uh is a vote

that proceeds along party lines uh and i remember when Dr. Paul was in the house,

as a general rule, even when he hated the bill, he would vote in favor of the rule because

he thought that the bill should be debated. And so that's what had happened last night,

but there was kind of a late-night rebellion.

They held the vote open, I think, until three or so in the morning.

And there was a slight rebellion.

There were, I think, a group of about 10 Republicans who were voting against the rule,

which would have prevented the big, beautiful bill from coming to the floor for a final vote

and would have ruined President Trump's Fourth of July signing ceremony. So basically, they stayed up

all night, twisting arms, twisting elbows, twisting anything in sight. And I know this is going to shock

you, but by morning when the members started getting tired, they relented, and they voted for the bill and the bill passed.

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