The Big Beautiful Bill scrapes through
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🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: President Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, has squeaked through Congress. It boosts military and border spending and extends Trump-era tax cuts, but makes deep cuts to healthcare and food aid. Saturday marks a year in office for the Labour Party in the UK, so what’s the economic verdict of the past 52 weeks? And it's been 10 years since Ireland became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote, and same-sex couples are contributing significantly to the wedding industry when, overall, marriage numbers are falling.
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| 1:36.9 | the cost? Hello, this is the Marketplace Morning Report, and we're live from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:42.3 | I'm Leanna Byrne. Good morning. The so-called big, beautiful bill, nearly 1,000 pages long, has squeaked through Congress by just four votes. |
| 1:50.9 | It boosts military and border spending, extends Trump-era tax cuts, but makes deep cuts to health care and food aid. |
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