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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, |
0:08.6 | the Senate pushes the president's massive budget bill toward final passage, even as some Republicans |
0:14.8 | voice concerns overcuts to Medicaid. More people in Gaza are killed while desperately trying to get food as the U.S. makes a new |
0:23.5 | push for a ceasefire. |
0:26.0 | And the U.S. Justice Department dedicates more FBI agents to investigate unsolved cases of missing |
0:32.5 | and murdered indigenous people. |
0:36.1 | Everybody in Indian country knows. |
0:41.1 | If you want to kill somebody and get away with it, you go to Indian country. |
1:00.3 | Welcome to the News Hour. The president's agenda and one of the largest bills in U.S. history is in the hands of the U.S. Senate. |
1:05.6 | Senators are in a day-long series of votes, what may be their last chance to change the bill. |
1:12.5 | At stake, trillions in tax cuts, reshaping the country's immigration system, energy future, and the future for Medicaid. At this hour, it is unclear whether Republicans will have the votes. Congressional |
1:18.2 | correspondent Lisa Desjardin is here now with more on the bill's latest test in Congress. |
1:23.1 | So, Lisa, we know the Senate released its version of the bill near midnight on Friday. |
1:28.2 | I know you've been going through it. |
1:29.7 | What are some of the key changes they made we should know about? |
1:32.2 | Right. |
1:33.2 | The Senate bill has fewer pages. |
1:35.2 | It's a little bit smaller than the House, but it is more aggressive on tax cuts and it |
1:39.5 | is more expensive. |
1:40.9 | So looking through it, first of all, the Senate would make permanent some business tax |
1:45.1 | cuts that are temporary in the House bill. In addition on Medicaid, the Senate would actually |
1:49.3 | increase one of the tax, one of the Medicaid cuts in here, but delay it by a year. Green energy, |
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