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Meet the Press NOW — June 30

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Senate considers amendments to the Trump agenda bill. Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) discusses the fate of Trump's agenda and the situation in Iran as the IAEA Chief says the country could begin enriching more uranium in the coming months. Rep. Mary-Katherine Stone (D-Vt.) and Rep. Beau Baird (R-Ind.) discuss their work with engaging young people.

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0:00.0

If it's Monday, President Trump's big, beautiful bill faces another make-or-break moment

0:06.2

as the Senate is deep into its voterama on the sprawling legislation,

0:10.3

and Republican Senator Tom Tillis stuns his party, opposing the bill and announcing his retirement.

0:16.8

Plus, the chief of the United Nations Nuclear Watchdog Group warns that Iran could resume uranium enrichment within months,

0:25.2

saying the damage to Iran's nuclear sites was severe but not total, as President Trump has claimed.

0:31.6

And President Trump signals relief for some undocumented immigrants, saying that farm and hotel workers could be spared from his

0:38.6

mass deportation agenda, despite his administration canceling a similar plan just two weeks ago.

0:58.3

Welcome to meet the press now.

1:02.9

I'm Yamishal Sender in Washington, where the president and Republican congressional leaders are hoping to jam through his legislative agenda by July 4th, despite divisions in their party

1:08.3

and the threat of political backlash.

1:15.0

All day, the Senate has been engaged in what's called a voterrama,

1:19.0

as it considers changes to the legislation as part of a marathon session that could go late into the night before a final vote on the bill.

1:23.0

And here's a reminder of what's in this massive package right now.

1:26.3

It increases funding for immigration

1:28.1

enforcement and the Pentagon while extending the 2017 tax cuts and temporarily ends taxes

1:33.9

on tips and overtime pay. The bill is paid for in part by cutting funds for clean energy, food

1:40.0

assistance, and the big one, Medicaid. The differences from the House passed bill and many of the

1:45.6

amendments that we've seen today are tied to how deep those Medicaid cuts could be.

1:50.2

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office scored the Senate version over the weekend,

1:54.2

and it says that the version, that version of that bill, would add more than $3 trillion to the

1:59.5

national debt over the next decade, despite the president's

2:02.4

promise not to slash benefits. The CBO also says the bill would cut Medicaid spending by more than

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