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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Trump's big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts is now one crucial step closer to clearing Congress and getting to his desk by the 4th of July. Today it made it through the Senate by a razor-thin margin with Vice President J.D. Vance pushing it over the edge. On this vote, |
| 0:21.2 | the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. The Senate being evenly divided, the Vice President votes in the |
| 0:27.2 | affirmative. The bill as amended is passed. Vice President J.D. Vance casting that vote. |
| 0:33.2 | NPR's Claudia Grisalas says the Senate GOP leadership overcame bitter internal party divides to get to |
| 0:38.5 | this point. Only three Senate Republicans voted against the megabill, retiring North Carolina |
| 0:44.4 | Senator Tom Tillis, Kentucky's Ram Paul, and Maine's Susan Collins. J.D. Vance broke the |
| 0:50.4 | resulting tie to pass the plan, which Senate Majority Leader John Thune called historic. |
| 0:55.9 | In the end, we got the job done, and we're delighted to be able to be partners with President Trump |
| 1:01.6 | in his agenda, an agenda that is the right month of the American people, the one that they |
| 1:07.3 | hoard for last November. The Republican-led House will need to debate the Senate changes, including steeper cuts to Medicaid, |
| 1:14.9 | to pay for extending tax cuts, passed during Trump's first term. |
| 1:20.4 | Claudia Riesales, NPR News, the Capitol. |
| 1:22.8 | President Trump's on again, off again, feud with Elon Musk is back on again. |
| 1:27.0 | Musk and posts on social media. |
| 1:29.2 | It's been lashing out at Republicans supporting the administration's massive tax-cutting bill. |
| 1:34.6 | It will run up the debt ceiling by another $5 trillion. Trump, for his part, suggested the |
| 1:39.4 | billionaire businessman could be punished for his opposition, according to the subsidies, |
| 1:43.5 | Musk companies, SpaceX and Tesla, |
| 1:45.2 | have gotten. President Trump says other states should join Florida in cooperating with the federal |
| 1:49.5 | government's efforts to deport migrants who don't have legal status. MPR's Greg Allen reports, |
| 1:55.0 | Trump visited a new immigration detention facility in the heart of Florida's Everglades. |
| 1:58.7 | Trump joined Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and other |
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