Senators to begin morning vote on Trump's major tax, Medicaid, border bill
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
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Senators on Monday will vote on President Donald Trump's legislative priorities.
USA TODAY Investigative Reporter Nick Penzenstadler discusses how mentally ill detained immigrants are being forced to fight in solitude.
Canada rescinds its digital services tax amid newly stalled U.S. trade talks.
A sniper in Idaho started a blaze and killed two responding firefighters in an ambush attack before being found dead hours later, authorities say.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Monday, June 30th, 2025. This is USA Today's The Excert. |
| 0:14.4 | Today, what to know is the Senate votes on Trump's legislative priorities, plus how Trump budget cuts force mentally ill detained immigrants to |
| 0:21.4 | fight in solitude. And some workers call out a double standard over returns to the office. |
| 0:27.7 | The Senate begins voting this morning on President Donald Trump's package of legislative priorities |
| 0:32.4 | as Republicans try to thread the needle for tax cuts, Medicaid reforms, and border security |
| 0:37.3 | funding with a narrow majority. |
| 0:39.4 | Senators spent their Sunday debating the bill before work on what is expected to be dozens of amendments. |
| 0:44.4 | If the Senate approves the bill, the House will begin voting on it on Wednesday. |
| 0:48.0 | Trump has asked Congress to send him the bill by Friday, July 4th. |
| 0:51.5 | The legislation cleared a key hurdle on Saturday, receiving a tight 51-49 vote in |
| 0:56.3 | the Senate that took more than three and a half hours, while a handful of Republicans negotiated with |
| 1:00.9 | Senate leaders, Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance. But that wasn't the final passage the bill needs to |
| 1:06.6 | head to Trump's desk. Instead, after the vote, Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer forced Senate clerks to read the entire 940-page bill instead of customarily waiving that task. |
| 1:16.9 | You can read more about what to expect this week with a link in today's show notes. |
| 1:24.9 | Mentally ill detainees facing deportation are by law afforded a fair hearing, but a national program to provide attorneys has been gutted. |
| 1:32.8 | I spoke with USA Today investigative reporter Nick Penzendstodler for more. |
| 1:36.6 | Thanks for joining me, Nick. |
| 1:37.9 | Thanks for having me, Taylor. |
| 1:39.6 | So just starting here, Nick, the Trump administration canceled an annual contract this spring dealing with private attorneys and detainees deemed mentally or cognitively incompetent and |
| 1:48.8 | unable to represent themselves. Let's just go back to that move. What exactly did the administration |
| 1:53.7 | decide here? So back in January, remember there was this flurry of executive orders and some of |
| 1:58.6 | those were aimed at immigration and trying to deliver on this |
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