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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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The House has sent Republicans' sweeping bill to President Donald Trump for his signature.
The unemployment rate fell slightly in June. Plus, should you take a buyout?
The Supreme Court will take up a major case on transgender athletes joining girls' teams.
USA TODAY National Correspondent Elizabeth Weise talks about the dangers of fireworks.
USA TODAY Movie Critic Brian Truitt gives us his top 10 films of the year.
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0:19.4 | Good morning and happy 4th of July. I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is USA Today's The Exit. |
0:29.4 | Today, what to know is the House passes Trump's bill and sends it to his desk. Plus, let's talk about the dangers of fireworks. |
0:35.7 | And I check in with our movie critic on his top films of the |
0:38.3 | year so far. Just like that, the fight is over. Republican sweeping bill to cut taxes and |
0:44.9 | slash benefit programs like Medicaid has passed out of Congress and is on its way to President |
0:49.8 | Donald Trump's desk to be signed into law during a ceremony at the White House later today. |
0:54.5 | The 218 to 214 House vote came after a full day of negotiations this week, an overnight |
0:59.2 | debate and Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivering the longest House speech on record. |
1:04.5 | Trump met at the White House with skeptical GOP lawmakers and cheered the members on during |
1:08.5 | votes by social media. The passage marks a major victory for Trump and Republican leadership in Congress. Still, the bill was met with deep reservations from within the party, and Democrats hope it might be their ticket to winning back congressional majorities in 2026. The bill will touch nearly every aspect of the American economy, from the social safety net and income taxes to businesses |
1:28.4 | and clean energy incentives. It's estimated to increase deficits by around $3.4 trillion over the |
1:34.5 | next 10 years, and it would make 2017 income tax cuts permanent, create new narrow tax breaks for |
1:40.2 | tips and overtime, implement new benefits for businesses, and rollback clean energy tax |
1:44.9 | credits created under former president Joe Biden. You can read more on usat today.com. |
1:53.8 | U.S. hiring unexpectedly picked up last month. Employers added 147,000 jobs, but stated local government hiring sharply boosted the gains. |
2:03.1 | The private sector added just 74,000 jobs, the fewest since hurricanes dampened payroll growth |
2:08.3 | last October. Still, the Labor Department said yesterday that the unemployment rate fell from |
2:13.0 | 4.2% to 4.1%. The department had reported in May that nearly 2 million Americans have been out of work |
2:19.5 | for six months or longer, the largest number in more than two years. Meanwhile, if you're offered a buyout, |
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