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Beau of The Fifth Column

Let's talk about Trump’s bill making it through the senate....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump’s bill making it through the senate....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

0:05.0

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's bill making it through the Senate.

0:11.0

A version of the Trump agenda has made it through the Senate.

0:15.0

It's a very different bill from the one that passed the House.

0:18.0

And now the differences have to be worked out between the two as the

0:22.0

next step. The bill was so unpopular in the Senate, it required a tiebreaker vote from Vance,

0:29.1

even though it only required a simple majority to pass. Republicans Susan Collins of Maine,

0:36.8

Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Tom Tillis of North Carolina

0:40.8

voted against the package. Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted in favor of the

0:48.6

package and then expressed regret and said she hoped it wasn't the final product.

0:55.9

Reminder, she's a senator and literally the person who could have forced the bill to be better.

1:03.1

By her own statement, she voted for a bill she thought was bad for America.

1:09.2

Quote, let's not kid ourselves. This has been an awful process,

1:15.0

a frantic rush to meet an artificial deadline that has tested every limit of this institution.

1:21.7

While we have worked to improve the present bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the

1:27.1

rest of our nation,

1:28.4

and we all know it. My sincere hope is that this is not the final product. This bill needs more

1:35.9

work across chambers and is not ready for the president's desk. We need to work together to get this

1:42.9

right.

1:47.5

She turned in an incomplete assignment and now seems to want more time.

1:52.6

If Trump pushes it through the House, it's over.

1:56.6

Now, realistically, just as we said, the bill that came out of the House wouldn't make

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