Senate pushes to pass Trump’s budget as some Republicans voice concerns over Medicaid cuts
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. The President's agenda and one of the largest bills in U.S. history is in the hands of the U.S. Senate. |
| 0:08.3 | Senators are in a day-long series of votes what may be their last chance to change the bill. |
| 0:13.6 | At stake, trillions in tax cuts, reshaping the country's immigration system, energy future, and the future for Medicaid. |
| 0:21.9 | At this hour, it is unclear whether Republicans will have the votes. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin |
| 0:27.2 | is here now with more on the bill's latest test in Congress. So Lisa, we know the Senate |
| 0:32.4 | released its version of the bill near midnight on Friday. I know you've been going through |
| 0:37.0 | it. What are some of the key changes they made we should know about? |
| 0:39.3 | All right. The Senate bill has fewer pages. It's a little bit smaller than the House, but it is more aggressive on tax cuts and it is more expensive. |
| 0:48.3 | So looking through it, first of all, the Senate would make permanent some business tax cuts that are temporary in the House bill. |
| 0:54.7 | In addition on Medicaid, the Senate would actually increase one of the tax, one of the Medicaid |
| 0:59.6 | cuts in here, but delay it by a year. |
| 1:02.0 | Green energy, it adds a new solar and wind tax that those industries say would be very harmful, |
| 1:07.3 | but that the senators behind it, say, would help. |
| 1:10.2 | The CBO has come to the conclusion that this bill would add $3.2 trillion to the debt over |
| 1:17.3 | the next 10 years. |
| 1:18.9 | That is a major concern by a lot of Republicans. |
| 1:21.2 | They're talking about that number. |
| 1:22.5 | But to be honest, this debate has centered around Medicaid, and particularly Democrats have been proposing |
| 1:28.9 | amendment after amendment to try and reverse those cuts. |
| 1:31.7 | My amendment simply says if people's health care costs go up, the billionaire tax cuts vanish. |
| 1:41.3 | It's the biggest Medicaid cut in history and represents the largest transfer of |
| 1:46.7 | wealth in history. So my colleagues, we have a choice. Do we stand for billionaires or do we stand |
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