House Speaker may have to make a lot of promises to get bill to Trump's desk
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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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After weeks of negotiations and 49 consecutive votes that started Monday morning, the senate approved President Trump's signature domestic policy bill around lunch time Tuesday. It now goes back to the House of Representatives where Republican Speaker Mike Johnson will have to reconcile the senate changes with his members' competing priorities.
Michael Ricci has had a long career in republican politics, including working as Speaker Paul Ryan's communications director and Speaker John Boehner's Chief Speech writer. We talked with him about the stakes, and the bill's prospects in the House.
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| 0:00.0 | The tax and spending legislation critical to President Trump's agenda has already made history. |
| 0:05.8 | After weeks of negotiations among Republicans, it has finally passed the Senate following a record-setting number of votes starting Monday morning. |
| 0:14.7 | Calendar number 107, HR1, an act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of H. Conradz 14. Voting dragged into a grueling |
| 0:23.2 | all-nighter as Republicans attempted to shore up support among their ranks. GOP leaders darted in |
| 0:29.2 | and out of offices trying to balance the demands of senators who thought the bill's cuts were too deep |
| 0:34.5 | with those who thought they didn't go far enough. And their slim Senate |
| 0:38.6 | majority meant they could only afford to lose three votes. And as it turned out, their efforts |
| 0:44.4 | were just enough. Ms. Collins, Mr. Paul, Mr. Tillis. Maine's Susan Collins, Kentucky's Rand Paul, and North Carolina's Tom Tillis broke ranks |
| 0:57.6 | and opposed the bill, tying the vote after all Democrats voted no. |
| 1:02.3 | At that point, the bill's fate rested in the hands of Vice President J.D. Vance, |
| 1:06.3 | who took his seat at the front of the chamber mid-vote. |
| 1:09.1 | On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. |
| 1:13.2 | The Senate being evenly divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative. |
| 1:17.3 | The bill as amended is passed. |
| 1:19.9 | President Trump, who had asked lawmakers to get the legislation to his desk by July 4th, |
| 1:24.7 | welcome the news, calling it music to my ears. |
| 1:30.8 | Consider this. After long and contentious debate, the Senate has finally passed President Trump's massive tax and spending |
| 1:36.1 | bill. Its fate now lies in the House where Republicans also hold a wafer thin majority. |
| 1:44.8 | From NPR, I'm Wanda Summers. |
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