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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Senate passes the debt ceiling legislation, clearing the way for President Joe Biden to sign it into law. Judge appears skeptical over the Biden administration’s position on social media and free speech. A top Twitter employee resigns following the situation with the documentary “What is a Woman.” Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has lost the endorsement of the New Hampshire GOP over Trump’s attack on former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks clearly on Russia’s unprovoked invasion into Ukraine. Relevant Links: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/02/judge-likens-biden-big-tech-censorship-orwells-1984-admins-answers-free-speech-prove-right/ Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm John Popp and I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday
0:06.1	June 2nd.
0:07.1	Here are today's headlines.
0:21.2	The Senate voted Thursday evening to pass the debt ceiling legislation, clearing the
0:26.0	way for President Joe Biden to sign it into law.
0:29.7	The Senate vote to pass the debt ceiling bill was 63 to 36.
0:34.8	The Senate also voted on 11 amendments on Thursday night, none of which passed.
0:40.6	Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement after the bill's passage.
0:45.4	He said four months after Speaker McCarthy invited President Biden to begin negotiating
0:50.9	a resolution to the looming debt crisis, an important step towards fiscal sanity will
0:57.4	finally become law.
0:59.8	Thanks to House Republicans' efforts, the Fiscal Responsibility Act avoids the catastrophic
1:05.6	consequences of default and begins to curb Washington Democrats' addiction to reckless
1:12.3	spending that grows our nation's debt.
1:15.7	In the Senate, 31 Republicans for Democrats and one independent voted against the legislation.
1:23.5	Some of the 31 Republicans who voted against the legislation include Senators Marsha Blackburn
1:29.2	of Tennessee, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri, JD
1:35.4	Vance of Ohio, Mike Lee of Utah, and Katie Britt of Alabama.
1:40.8	Democrat Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, John Federman of Pennsylvania,
1:47.1	and Jeff Murkley of Oregon voted against the legislation as well.
1:51.8	Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent of Vermont, also voted no.
1:56.0	The House voted on Wednesday evening to pass the debt ceiling bill in a vote of 314-117,
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