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Laura Coates Live

Dems Pounce On GOP Divisions Over Trump Bill

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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A marathon voting session on President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill is underway in the Senate and has stretched overnight into the early hours of Tuesday morning after a weekend of negotiations and delays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

As the Senate nears midnight with the fate of his agenda still unclear, we're live from Capitol Hill.

0:07.0

Plus, Elon Musk rears his head again, this time vowing to defeat any Republican who supports that bill.

0:15.0

Will the party take him seriously?

0:17.0

Also tonight, the jury in the trial against Sean Diddy Combs having deliberation troubles already,

0:22.8

as one juror's ability is called into question and a shock plea deal in the Idaho student murders.

0:30.7

Why Brian Coburger is now appearing ready to admit it was him all along.

0:35.8

All tonight on Laura Coates Live. It's make or break for President

0:42.8

Trump's agenda. Right now, senators are working late into the night on Capitol Hill as the White

0:48.2

House urges them to stay united on Trump's huge policy proposal. They're voting on a slew of changes to his one big,

0:56.9

beautiful bill, and they've been at it for 14 hours. But whether the bill makes it to Trump's

1:03.2

desk by his own July 4th deadline, that's Friday, by the way, or at all, well, that's an open

1:09.9

question. The bill is facing pressure for moderate Republicans and hardline conservatives alike.

1:15.8

Take Senator Tom Tillis.

1:17.3

Now, he's upset that Trump's mega bill could cut Medicaid coverage for really 12 million Americans,

1:25.3

even though the president said he wasn't going to touch Medicaid.

1:30.8

What do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years? When President Trump breaks

1:39.3

this promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there anymore,

1:44.6

the effect of this bill is to break a promise.

1:49.4

Well, Trump threatened a primary against Tillis for going against the bill,

1:54.6

but Tillis responded with what you might call while the ultimate might drop,

1:59.3

announcing he won't seek re-election next year.

2:02.5

So perhaps that threat might fall on his deaf ears.

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