GOP Rushes To Pass Trump's Big Beautiful Bill

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

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It’s make-or-break week for Congressional Republicans and their big policy and spending legislation, a.k.a. President Donald Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’ Trump says he still expects to see the final package on his desk by this Friday, even as new estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office show the latest version of the bill could add more than $3 trillion dollars to the national debt over the next decade. Is that deterring members of the party that professes to care about federal spending? Not really. Senate Republicans are expected to vote on the measures, after narrowly advancing it to the floor for debate over the weekend. Elana Schor, senior Washington editor for the online news publication Semafor, gives us an update on where the bill stands now and the possible speed bumps ahead. And in headlines: Trump hints at a possible TikTok buyer, the Supreme Court hands the White House another huge win by limiting the powers of lower court judges, and the president pressures Israeli officials to drop Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, June 30th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is why today, the show that celebrates LeBron James deciding to play a record 23rd NBA season.
0:11.0	LeBron will not just be the oldest active player at 41 years old.
0:15.0	There are dozens of NBA players who will be playing James this season who were not born when he entered the NBA.
0:26.2	On today's show, President Donald Trump hints at a possible TikTok buyer, and Trump pressures Israeli
0:31.7	officials to drop Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial. But let's start with
0:36.5	a Republican big, not very beautiful bill, which President Trump wants
0:40.4	on his desk by July 4th, as in this Friday.
0:43.9	And like with any group assignment, getting this absolute shit show of a bill across the finish
0:48.7	line will take a lot of teamwork from people who are not very, let's say, teamwork inclined. And the group project itself, it sucks.
0:57.8	If passed, the big, beautiful bill would greenlight the single biggest cut to America's social
1:02.4	safety net in decades. Under the Senate version, more than 11 million people could end up
1:07.4	without health care coverage over the next decade. That's according to the latest
1:11.0	projections from the nonpartisan congressional budget office. And millions of people could lose
1:15.7	access to food assistance, mainly to keep funding giant tax cuts passed during Trump's first term.
1:21.1	Immigration and customs enforcement would get a multi-billion dollar budget bump. Oh, and the bill is
1:26.7	projected to add trillions of dollars to the
1:28.7	national debt, a fact which Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray made sure to highlight on the
1:33.7	Senate floor Sunday. Have you no shame. If you think you can look the American people in the face
1:40.3	and tell them, we have to bring down the debt after passing what might be the most expensive
1:45.8	bill in history. If you think you can do that and then be taken seriously, well, you know what?
1:52.9	If you believe that, maybe you are foolish enough to think that zero and a trillion are the same.
1:58.9	So for more on the latest with the Republicans' big, beautiful disaster
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