The Big Republican Spending Bill Debacle Disaster Adventure

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

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The Senate passed President Donald Trump's spending bill on Tuesday after Vice President JD Vance arrived to break a 50-50 tie. The bill is now headed back to the House where Republican Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose three members and still pass the bill by a party line vote. To learn more about what this means for Republicans' big beautiful bill and the looming July Fourth deadline, we spoke with Nicholas Wu, a congressional reporter for Politico. And in headlines: President Trump tours "Alligator Alcatraz," Florida's new migrant detention center, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says Trump's tariff wars pretty much stopped it from cutting interest rates, and the Trump-Musk feud is reignited.

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, July 2nd.
0:04.2	I'm Jane Koston, and this is what today, the show that is not going to spend $250 to smell like President Donald Trump.
0:11.9	His new fragrance, called Victory 4547, is supposed to represent, quote, winning.
0:17.1	Because nothing says winning like being the president of the United States and still feeling the need to sell Cologne.
0:29.7	On today's show, Elon Musk and Trump's romance breakup continues, and a new study finds that shuddering USAID will result in the deaths of millions of people around the world.
0:39.0	Good work, doge.
0:40.7	But let's talk about the big Republican spending bill debacle disaster adventure.
0:45.3	That's what we're calling it.
0:47.1	On Tuesday morning, the Senate passed President Trump's spending bill after Vice President J.D. Vance arrived to break a 50-50 tie.
0:53.1	And it's probably not a great sign for what this bill will actually do to America
0:57.3	that this is how Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski responded to a question about voting for it.
1:03.0	I advocated from my state's interests.
1:07.4	I will continue to do that and I will make no excuses for doing that.
1:12.6	Do I like this bill? No.
1:14.6	Because I try to take care of Alaska's interests, but I know, I know that in many parts of the country,
1:24.6	there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill.
1:30.2	I don't like that.
1:31.7	Feel the enthusiasm.
1:33.5	I mean, she's not exactly wrong to be less than jazzed.
1:36.2	The Senate version of the alleged big, beautiful bill, cuts Medicaid by billions and would
1:40.4	push millions of people off their health care.
1:42.7	And setting aside health care for just a second,
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