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🗓️ 2 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Tonight, the Senate narrowly passes President Trump's massive spending bill, and now it's headed to the House, where things stand as Trump's July 4th deadline approaches. |
0:11.2 | Then how this bill could impact you, from health care cuts to possible higher interest rates, why you should be paying attention. |
0:18.3 | Plus, the jury reaches a partial verdict in the Sean Combs trial, |
0:22.3 | but the judge urges them to keep deliberating as the 11th hour gets underway on this Tuesday night. |
0:31.2 | Good evening once again. |
0:32.9 | I am Stephanie Ruhl, and it is day 163 of the second Trump administration. And after a marathon |
0:39.4 | voting session, the Senate narrowly passed the president's sweeping budget bill. The vote was 51 |
0:45.8 | to 50 with Vice President J.D. Vance casting the tie-breaking vote because three Republicans, |
0:52.2 | can you guess who they were? Susan Collins, Rand Paul, |
0:55.2 | and Tom Tillis voted no. In the end, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a very vocal critic of several |
1:02.4 | provisions of this bill. She voted yes, but she said it was an agonizing decision. Our own Ryan |
1:07.8 | Nobles has all the details. The dramatic moment, Vice President Vance, |
1:13.4 | breaking a tie vote. The Vice President votes in the affirmative. The bill as amended is passed. |
1:19.9 | In a major win for President Trump, the Senate narrowly passing what he calls his big, |
1:24.9 | beautiful bill, which extends the Trump tax cuts, increases border |
1:28.9 | security, and eliminates taxes on tips in overtime. As President Trump would say, promises made, |
1:34.9 | promises kept. But three Republicans, and every Democrat voting no. Republicans pass the biggest |
1:41.2 | tax breaks for billionaires ever seen. Ultimately, it came down to Alaska |
1:45.7 | Republican Lisa Murkowski, who negotiated a special carve-out for Alaska to soften the blow of |
1:51.6 | the changes to Medicaid, drawing the ire of Kentucky's Rand Paul, who voted no. They chose to add |
1:57.8 | more pork and subsidies for Alaska to secure that. |
2:01.3 | We pressed Murkowski. |
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