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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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0:00.0 | From CNN, I'm Fez Jamil with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, July 1st. |
0:07.0 | A marathon voting session in the Senate stretched overnight into the early hours this morning, and by 6 a.m. Eastern time was still going on. |
0:16.0 | The Votorama, as some are calling it, began yesterday just after 9.30 a.m., as lawmakers went |
0:22.4 | through a series of votes on amendments. |
0:25.0 | It's all to pass President Donald Trump's massive multi-trillion dollar bill to lower federal |
0:30.3 | taxes, infuse more money into the Pentagon and border security agencies, while downsizing |
0:35.8 | government safety net programs, including Medicaid. |
0:39.3 | Trump's team is pushing hard for this bill to pass, as CNN's Kristen Holmes tells us. |
0:44.3 | I spoke to a number of administration officials who say this has been a real full-furt press. |
0:48.3 | You have had not only President Trump on the phone with various senators, congressional leadership, |
0:52.3 | but you've also had members of the administration, allies of President Trump's. Anyone who has a relationship with any senator, they are |
0:59.7 | calling them, they are pushing them. And that's really because this is such an important part |
1:04.0 | of President Trump's legacy. We saw him on social media, essentially kind of leveling some veiled |
1:09.9 | threats at people who might try to stop |
1:12.4 | this bill from being passed, saying senators who are cutting costs, you need to be careful, |
1:16.7 | don't go too crazy, you still have to be re-elected. |
1:21.7 | Now another person making political threats over the passing of this bill is Elon Musk, |
1:27.2 | this time against anyone who does vote for it. |
1:30.5 | The tech billionaire posted on social media yesterday, quote, |
1:34.3 | Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame. |
1:43.7 | And they will lose their primary |
1:45.5 | next year if it is the last thing I do on this earth. He later said he would form a new political |
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