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NPR News: 07-02-2025 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.

0:05.3

Members of the House Freedom Caucus are threatening to derail President Trump's massive tax cut and spending package.

0:12.5

NPR's Claudia Grasales reports that conservative hardliners have circulated a memo blasting the legislation.

0:19.0

House Freedom Caucus members argue that Trump's so-called

0:21.9

big, beautiful bill will spike the federal deficit, watered down repeal of Democrats' clean energy

0:28.2

initiatives and fall short of their demands for cuts to Medicaid. Members also say the plan

0:33.9

should cut more funding from Planned Parenthood and contains, quote, excessive pork for

0:38.7

Alaska and Hawaii. Their objections have stalled the megabills momentum a day after it was approved

0:44.4

in the Senate. Claudio DiSales, NPR News. Music mogul, Sean Diddy Combs, will remain in jail until his

0:51.6

sentencing date. Combs was found guilty today of transportation to engage in

0:56.5

prostitution. He was acquitted on the more serious charges, racketeering, and sex trafficking.

1:02.7

In Wisconsin, abortion access is back after a ruling today from the state Supreme Court.

1:09.0

Jimmy Guitarez from Milwaukee Public Radio reports the court

1:12.2

overturned a state law from 1849, which followed the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

1:18.1

The lawsuit was brought forward by Wisconsin's Attorney General Josh called three years ago.

1:22.4

In a press conference, call praised the decision. He also called for the legislature to hear

1:26.7

from Wisconsinites about the

1:28.0

impact the law had while in effect. For 15 months, women in Wisconsin had to experience something

1:33.2

that for essentially two generations people hadn't had to go through, which was being denied

1:38.6

the autonomy and the freedom to make their own reproductive health care decisions.

1:43.3

While the decisions cements abortion access in the state for the first 20 weeks of a pregnancy,

1:47.5

there's still questions.

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