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House Speaker Mike Johnson races to get Trump's megabill approved before deadline

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48K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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House Speaker Mike Johnson races to get Trump's megabill approved before deadline

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With this legislation, we are fulfilling the mandate we were entrusted with last November

0:05.0

and setting our country and the American people up to be safer, stronger, and more prosperous.

0:13.0

I look forward to the House taking up and passing this historic legislation

0:17.0

and getting it to the president's desk.

0:25.1

Today's vote will haunt our Republican colleagues for years to come.

0:32.4

As the American people see the damage that is done, as hospitals close, as people are laid off, as costs go up, as the debt increases, they will see what our colleagues have done, and they will

0:40.7

remember it. And we Democrats will make sure they remember it. The American people will not forget

0:47.4

the betrayal, the betrayal that took place today. Well, I just heard that about the Senate, and the bill just passed.

0:55.2

And it tells you there's something for everyone.

0:58.1

I mean, we have, it's a great bill.

1:00.0

There is something for everyone.

1:02.2

And I think it's going to go very nicely in the House.

1:05.3

Actually, I think it will be easier in the House than it was in the Senate.

1:09.0

President Trump reacting to the Senate's narrow passage of that massive domestic policy bill yesterday,

1:15.5

it now heads back to the House where hardline conservatives say they have enough votes to sink that legislation.

1:22.9

Also ahead this morning, President Trump tours a controversial new migrant detention camp in the middle of the Florida Everglades.

1:29.9

We'll have the latest on so-called alligator alcatraz.

1:33.8

Plus, the jury in the Sean Diddy Come sex trafficking trial will resume deliberations in just a few hours.

1:40.6

After announcing in court yesterday, it reached a partial verdict with one that still dangling out there.

1:46.8

We'll have legal analysis on what it all means.

1:49.7

Good morning.

1:50.2

Welcome to morning, Joe.

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