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News Wrap: Senate pulls all-nighter to pass Republican budget bill

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In our news wrap Saturday, the Senate passed a Republican bill that advances Trump’s proposed tax and spending cuts, strong storms hammered parts of the U.S. damaged by tornadoes, a fire broke out in Myanmar following last week’s devastating earthquake, and Alex Ovechkin tied Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record goals scored in the regular NHL season. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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In today's other news, the Senate pulled an all-nighter to pass a Republican bill that advances President Trump's proposed tax and spending cuts.

0:08.0

Approval on a 51-48 vote came before dawn, mostly along party lines.

0:13.0

Only two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, joined Democrats to vote against it.

0:20.0

The bill lays out a possible $5 trillion in tax cuts,

0:24.3

raises the debt limit, and calls for $350 billion to fund mass deportation efforts

0:29.8

and to build up the military.

0:31.9

Democrats argue the bill will lead to cuts in social safety net programs.

0:35.8

The measure now heads to the House where Republicans are taking a different approach,

0:39.3

including $4.5 trillion in tax cuts

0:42.3

and envisioning changes to Medicaid, food stamps, and other programs.

0:46.3

Severe weather is still a threat in much of the country

0:49.3

as strong storms hammer areas damaged by tornadoes.

0:53.3

The National Weather Service warns that life-threatening and potentially historic flash flooding is possible

0:59.0

from the Ohio Valley to Texas and Louisiana.

1:02.0

Across the Midwest, they're still cleaning up after tornadoes ripped through the area.

1:06.0

And in Centobia, Mississippi, about 60 miles south of Memphis,

1:10.0

one man credits the city's emergency

1:11.6

alert system for saving his family's lives. Without it, my daughter and my grandson would

1:17.7

have been in that room right there where there's no wall anymore. And they found one of his

1:22.6

toys about a mile and a half out in the county, one of his little Mickey Mouse toys, so they very

1:29.0

well could have been with it.

1:31.0

Forecasters expect the storm pattern to shift eastward on Sunday, taking the risk of severe

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