Senate Battle Looms Over Big Beautiful Bill

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

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Plus: Canada withdraws digital tax in bid to salvage U.S. trade discussions. And China’s manufacturing activity declines for a third straight month. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Here is your morning brief for Monday, June 30th.
0:35.9	I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:38.5	The Senate is readying for battle today over President Trump's big, beautiful bill,
0:44.7	which Republicans narrowly advanced over the weekend. A voterrama is scheduled to begin in the
0:50.6	chamber this morning, in which lawmakers can propose unlimited amendments leading
0:55.3	to hours of potential voting. Even if the Senate passes the bill, getting the measure to Trump
1:00.8	by Republicans' Friday deadline will still require another potentially difficult vote in the House.
1:07.4	Stock futures are gaining after Canada announced late last night that it's dropping a digital
1:12.5	services tax on American tech companies and that trade talks with the U.S. will resume on July 21st.
1:19.6	That's after President Trump said on Friday that the U.S. was walking away from discussions.
1:25.1	Canada's finance department was set to collect billions of dollars from
1:28.5	U.S. tech companies beginning today with a 3% tax on revenue for selling digital services
1:34.6	to Canadians and sales of Canadian user data. The White House didn't immediately respond for comment.
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