GOP Senators Ruin Their Summer Vacay for Trump Spending Bill

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

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As Republicans in Congress look to gut Medicaid with President Donald Trump’s supposed “Big Beautiful Bill,” the Supreme Court ended its session ruling on United States vs. Skirmetti that Tennessee could bar gender-affirming care for minors. The ruling itself centered on whether or not such a ban would violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. In a 6–3 decision, with the three liberal justices dissenting, the court decided the Tennessee law did not violate the clause. To learn more about what gender affirming care does, and what providers working on the ground think of efforts to ban it, we spoke to Dr. Alex Dworak. He’s the associate medical director of family medicine at One World Community Health Centers and specializes in LGBTQ medicine. Then in headlines: Republicans in the Senate are literally racing to pass President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” by the Fourth of July, the Trump administration’s spat with Harvard continues as it accuses the university of being in violation of the Civil Rights Act, and Trump goes to “Alligator Alcatraz,” Florida’s new migrant detention center.

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, July 1st. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wadaddey, the show that says,
0:06.7	I get it, Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman. I get it. Oh my God, I just want to go home.
0:13.3	I've already, I've missed our entire trip to the beach. My family's going to be back before we
0:19.4	that. So, and again, I'm going to vote no.
0:24.1	He goes on to say that he, like every Senate Democrat,
0:27.5	is opposed to the Republican spending bill that would gut Medicaid
0:30.0	and give tax breaks to billionaires.
0:31.6	But I don't know if there's another Senate Democrat
0:33.8	who sounds as absolutely over it as Federman.
0:39.0	And as someone who has been over it since inauguration day, I get it. On today's show, President Donald Trump heads to Florida
0:50.2	for the grand opening of the so-called Alligator Alcatraz Migrant Detention Center.
0:56.4	And the Trump administration is now accusing Harvard University of violating the Civil Rights Act.
1:01.1	But let's start by talking about gender affirming care, namely what it actually looks like.
1:07.5	The Supreme Court ruled last month in United States v. Scrimetti that the state of Tennessee
1:11.7	could bar gender-affirming care for minors. The ruling itself centered on whether or not such a ban
1:16.7	would violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. The court found that because the Tennessee
1:21.7	law didn't discriminate on the basis of sex or gender identity, it doesn't. According to the
1:26.9	non-partisan health care policy outlet KFF, 27 states have bans on gender
1:32.2	affirming care for minors, though in at least two of those states, Arizona and New Hampshire,
1:37.5	those bans only apply to surgical care.
1:40.2	Both Arkansas and Montana have had their bans on gender affirming care for minors and joined by the courts, and challenges to bans from other states are still ongoing.
1:49.0	But I wanted to back up a second and ask, what does gender affirming care do?
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