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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, it's looking like a make-or-break weekend for the president's big budget bill and his hope of passing it by July 4th. |
0:07.0 | Republican senators have not yet posted text of their proposal, but PBS NewsHour has learned they hope to start voting tomorrow. |
0:14.4 | Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin was again back on the hill today and joins us now. Good to see you, Lisa. |
0:19.2 | Hello. |
0:19.8 | So bring us up to speed. Where do things stand with this bill |
0:22.1 | that the president calls the big, beautiful bill? |
0:25.0 | Still big, I would say, right now more uncertain than anything else. |
0:29.3 | My sources are telling me that Republicans and the Senate |
0:31.9 | hope to post their text tonight. |
0:34.1 | It sure would be nice to see ahead of the vote, |
0:36.6 | which they are hoping to have tomorrow. |
0:39.2 | But hope is the right word here, because across the Capitol in both chambers, this bill has hit |
0:43.1 | a number of snags. I want to look through just some of them. These are the major ones. First, |
0:47.3 | a few with Medicaid. There you can see there are issues with the timeline. Some senators want to |
0:51.2 | delay the Medicaid cuts. There's issues also with rural hospitals. And increasingly we're hearing from House members, |
0:57.0 | they are concerned that undocumented immigrants |
0:59.0 | can still get coverage through states. |
1:01.0 | The parliamentarian ruled that out, but they want it. |
1:04.0 | They want to make sure that provision comes back. |
1:06.0 | There's a state and local tax deduction. |
1:07.0 | There's green energy tax cuts. |
1:09.0 | But wait, there's still more snags that they have to |
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