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One Big Beautiful Mess

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As Republicans scramble to pass Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ Democrats are reportedly drumming up new tactics to slow down the process; NYC Comptroller Brad Lander discusses the importance of bearing witness to, and pushing back against, Trump’s immigration crackdown; and what the president plans to do with the new power the Supreme Court allowed him to seize from judiciary.

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0:00.0

All right, it's Saturday, June 28th.

0:10.9

We're watching Capitol Hill right now, and this Senate will be in session shortly as

0:14.8

Republicans scramble to pass the bill to fund President Trump's agenda aiming to start

0:19.5

voting today.

0:20.6

Now, the version they, in theory,

0:22.2

will be voting on today, was released overnight. It's 940 pages long. The Senate Minority Leader

0:28.3

Chuck Schumer is giving it a read. He put out the statement on X this morning saying, quote,

0:32.1

at the behest of big oil in the dead of the night, Senate Republicans released a new version of

0:36.6

their big, beautiful betrayal

0:37.8

that retroactively raises taxes on energy. Republicans want to jack up your electric bills and jeopardize

0:44.3

hundreds of thousands of jobs, all so that they can give billionaires tax breaks. Senate Republicans

0:50.5

will meet for a closed-door policy lunch at 1 p.m. Eastern today, and the full Senate

0:54.2

will reconvene at 2 p.m. They plan to be in session for the rest of the weekend with the goal of

0:58.8

ultimately getting the bill on Trump's desk by July 4th. NBC News has learned that Democrats are

1:04.4

considering forcing the clerk to read the entire 940-page bill out loud on the floor of the Senate.

1:10.5

It's a move that would delay the vote,

1:11.9

but there are other roadblocks as well. While some Republicans might think this bill is

1:16.3

big and beautiful, many consider it bad and bloated and just plain ugly. The top priority of the

1:21.8

One Big Beautiful Bill Act is to make Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts permanent. It also sets aside millions,

1:28.1

hundreds of, sorry, hundreds of billions of dollars

1:31.1

for this administration's immigration enforcement efforts.

1:34.5

To fund that, Republicans in both chambers

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