June 27, 2025: The megabill’s moment of truth

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

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President Donald Trump firmly believes the GOP’s megabill can pass through Congress and land on his desk by July 4. But with just one week to go before that self-imposed deadline, the sweeping legislation faces a congressional obstacle course, with Republicans across Capitol Hill fighting over facets from Medicaid cuts to government spending to federal land sales. POLITICO Congress reporter Jordain Carney joins Playbook contributing author Adam Wren to break down everything the state of play and where things go from here.

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0:00.0	Presented by BP.
0:08.2	Hello, I'm Adam Wren.
0:10.0	And I'm Jordan Carney, and it is Friday, June 27.
0:13.6	And this is the Playbook podcast.
0:16.2	As you heard, we have Politico's own Congress reporter extraordinaire with us today.
0:20.7	Thanks for being here,
0:21.5	Jordan. Thanks for having me on. Without further ado, here are the topics driving the day.
0:26.9	First, the main thing we're watching today takes us to Capitol Hill, where the so-called megabill
0:32.1	continues its winding path amid roadblocks in Congress, and a Senate vote is anticipated as early as tomorrow.
0:39.8	But President Trump has been downplaying the setbacks and says the July 4th deadline stands.
0:45.7	More on that in a moment, though.
0:47.2	The second thing we're watching today is the potential flood of major Supreme Court deadlines.
0:54.0	We are tracking any number of answers to big questions.
0:58.7	Those include whether President Trump can implement changes to birthright citizenship while the
1:03.8	issue is being challenged in lower courts, whether requiring age verification to access
1:09.5	internet pornography infringes on adults,
1:12.4	constitutional free speech rights, and whether parents' inability to opt out of their children's
1:17.3	engagement with some diverse children's books violates the First Amendment.
1:22.4	There's also a three-year case regarding congressional redistricting in Louisiana. You can follow all of that at
1:29.8	Politico.com on our SCOTUS live blog. The third story we're following takes us to Iran. You
1:36.5	might have seen a very combative defense secretary Pete Hegseth Presser at the Pentagon on Thursday.
1:43.9	Hegsth, of course, is a former Fox News contributor.
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