The Big, Beautiful Bill gets through the Senate.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, following a marathon all-night voting session, the Republicans’ taxation and spending bill passed the Senate 51–50 on a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance. Republican Senators Rand Paul (KY), Thom Tillis (NC), and Susan Collins (ME) joined every Democratic senator in voting no; all other Republican senators voted yes. The bill — known as the One Big, Beautiful Bill (or OBBB) — originally passed the House 215–214 on May 22, but due to changes in the Senate, it now requires another majority vote in the lower chamber before it can be sent to President Donald Trump for approval.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the big, beautiful bill, passing the Senate, the signature achievement for the Trump administration so far, a major, |
| 0:41.9 | major, major, major legislative update, I guess we could say. |
| 0:46.5 | A major piece of legislative news. |
| 0:48.6 | We're going to break down some views from left and the right, and then I've got a lot to |
| 0:52.9 | say about this bill, what's in it, |
| 0:55.2 | how it got passed. There's a lot here to cover. Before we do jump in, though, I want to give you |
| 1:01.1 | one last reminder that tonight I'm going to be doing a live stream at 8 p.m. Eastern with editor |
| 1:07.0 | at large Camille Foster. We're going to be answering some reader questions about his |
| 1:11.1 | piece on the 2020 Racial Reckoning. I'm going to kind of interview him, take some questions |
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| 1:19.9 | live stream community-oriented stuff going forward with our team expanding. We have a bigger |
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| 1:29.6 | experiment and also, you know, something we've done before that we're just excited to do more of. |
| 1:35.0 | So if you have not yet listened to that episode, we put it up on our podcast feed last night. |
| 1:42.0 | Apologies for the delay there. I know that I said yesterday |
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| 1:52.3 | miscommunication with John, our trusty podcast executive producer about that. But it is up now. |
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