Good morning. It's Sunday, June 29th. I'm Charles Coleman, Jr. filling in for Ali Velshi today. We're keeping a close eye on Capitol Hill where Senate clerks have been up all night, taking turns reading all 940 pages of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

out loud. Now, they're about to enter hour 12 of the marathon reading session, which is really a

delay tactic prompted by minority leader Chuck Schumer. It began late last night after

Republicans move one step closer toward passing the GOP mega bill to fund Donald

Trump's domestic agenda. It will make his 2017 tax cuts permanent, which will disproportionately

benefit the wealthiest of Americans at the expense of social safety net programs like Medicaid

and SNAP that help the most vulnerable among us.

It will also give a huge boost of money and support to Homeland Security and ICE so that

they can significantly ramp up their mass deportation operations.

51 of the 53 Republicans in the Senate voted to bring the bill to the floor last night,

which is a key hurdle toward

final passage. The two GOP holdouts were ran Paul of Kentucky and Tom Tillis of North Carolina.

Now, both of those senators have been saying for weeks that they have deep reservations

about the bill. For his part, Paul has been complaining about the debt that the United States will

rack up as a result of this bill. And to be fair, he kind of has a point. Overnight, the Joint

Committee on Taxation estimated that the GOP mega bill will add $4.45 trillion to the national debt

over the next decade. Republicans dispute that number,

and they say that the bill is way cheaper and that it's not going to add that much to the national

debt. But as the Washington Post points out, that's only because Senate Republicans, quote,

changed the way they did the math. Basically, they're using a gimmick to pretend that the very expensive tax cuts

don't cost money. Meanwhile, another key office, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office,

hasn't even had a chance to analyze and to report its cost estimates yet, and other concerns

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