House clears key hurdle on tax megabill
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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The House has cleared a hurdle on President Donald Trump's bill of legislative priorities.
USA TODAY National Correspondent Marco della Cava puts Diddy's trial in context after a verdict.
A federal judge has blocked President Trump's asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia experienced "severe beatings" and "psychological torture" at a prison in El Salvador, according to a new court filing.
USA TODAY Youth Mental Health Reporting Fellow Rachel Hale discusses why LGBTQ+ youth are twice as likely to be homeless.
Clayton Kershaw joins the 3,000 strikeout club.
The U.S. men's soccer team advances to the Gold Cup Final to play Mexico.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, July 3rd, 2025. |
| 0:09.0 | This is USA Today's The Excerpt. |
| 0:16.0 | Today, the latest on Trump's mega bill as House lawmakers continue working, |
| 0:20.0 | plus breaking down the verdict |
| 0:21.3 | in Diddy's trial, and LGBTQ plus youth are twice as likely to be homeless. |
| 0:28.3 | House Republicans have cleared a key procedural hurdle to get President Trump's signature |
| 0:32.6 | legislative bill to his desk by a self-imposed July 4th deadline tomorrow. The House started debating |
| 0:38.1 | Trump's legislative package of tax reductions and Medicaid cuts yesterday, but Republican |
| 0:42.5 | leaders struggled to chart a path to victory with their narrow majorities in Congress. The |
| 0:47.3 | House later voted 219 to 213 to move forward, setting up a final vote of yes or no on Trump's |
| 0:53.3 | domestic agenda, ending taxes |
| 0:55.0 | on tips and overtime, cutting Medicaid, and bolstering border security. Still, the vote doesn't |
| 1:00.5 | guarantee the bill will succeed since several lawmakers who oppose its $3.3 trillion price tag |
| 1:05.8 | are still seeking changes as of early this morning. You can stay up on all the latest with |
| 1:10.4 | usat today.com. |
| 1:15.9 | A verdict was delivered yesterday in the weeks-long trial of Sean Diddy Combs. I spoke with USA Today |
| 1:21.3 | national correspondent Marco Delacava for more. And a heads up, Marco had to join me while in |
| 1:26.2 | transit, so apologies for the choppy |
| 1:28.4 | audio. Thank you for joining me, Marco. Hey, thanks for having me and talking about this. All right, |
| 1:34.4 | so as for the verdict itself, what did we hear? And I guess what sentencing might did he now face? |
| 1:39.5 | The jury took three days to deliberate. And Sean Combs basically got a pretty light verdict as it goes. |
| 1:45.8 | Essentially, he was facing life in prison for racketeering, but that charge did not stick, |
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