Megabill Moves Forward, 'Alligator Alcatraz' & Summer Wage Bumps - Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The news to know for Wednesday, July 2, 2025!
We'll tell you how the Senate secured exactly enough votes to pass as many of President Trump's priorities as possible—all at once—and what still needs to happen before the mega-bill becomes law.
Also, what to know about what's being called "Alligator Alcatraz," and the White House's latest warning for undocumented immigrants.
Plus: why federal education funding didn't go out yesterday as it was supposed to, how one tech company is protecting its clients from AI bots, and what one of the biggest music groups in the world told fans this week.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, July 2nd. We'll tell you how the Senate secured exactly enough votes to pass as many of President Trump's priorities as possible all at once, and what still needs to happen before the megabill becomes law. |
| 0:11.9 | Also, what to know about what's being called alligator alcatraz and the White House's latest warning for migrants. |
| 0:17.3 | Plus, why federal education funding did not go out yesterday as it was supposed to. How one tech |
| 0:22.2 | company is protecting its clients from AI bots and what one of the biggest music groups in the |
| 0:27.0 | world told fans this week. Those stories and even more news coming up. Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy, |
| 0:35.3 | all the day's news in around 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:47.4 | It took an all-nighter and a whole lot of negotiating, but Senate Republicans passed President Trump's big policy bill. |
| 0:54.4 | 50 Republicans voted yes, but all Democrats and three Senate Republicans voted no. |
| 0:59.6 | So it took a tiebreaker vote from Vice President J.D. Vance to get it over the finish line. |
| 1:04.2 | And with that, the GOP is on the verge of locking in Trump's top priorities. |
| 1:08.1 | Those include tax breaks for the wealthy, more money for defense and border |
| 1:11.6 | enforcement, as well as cuts to clean energy and social safety net programs like Medicaid. |
| 1:16.8 | Granted, there are still more hurdles to cross before it becomes law starting in the House. |
| 1:21.4 | Even though House lawmakers already passed their version of it, the Senate made changes. |
| 1:25.9 | So, for example, senators limited a state and local tax deduction, |
| 1:29.4 | doubled a rural health fund to try to lessen the effects of Medicaid cuts, and more. So the House |
| 1:34.6 | will have to take it up again. Republican leaders have said they'll do so immediately, |
| 1:39.3 | and they hope to send it to the president to sign into law by the end of the week. But if the |
| 1:43.2 | House makes any more changes, it will then have to go back to the Senate. Meanwhile into law by the end of the week. But if the House makes any more |
| 1:44.1 | changes, it will then have to go back to the Senate. Meanwhile, there's a lot of outside opposition |
| 1:49.4 | to this bill. And one of the loudest critics used to be President Trump's top advisor. This week, |
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