Trump bill drama, Dollar General record sales, lost dog’s 100-mile journey & more
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy. |
| 0:07.0 | Meaning more and more of our energy comes from wind farms like this one. |
| 0:14.0 | Guys, what happened to recording that the solar farms? |
| 0:18.0 | To learn more, visit about amazon.com. |
| 0:24.4 | At UK forward slash sustainability. |
| 0:31.2 | From CNN, I'm AfomaDK, |
| 0:34.0 | with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, June 3rd. |
| 0:44.3 | President Donald Trump is pressuring Senate Republicans to pass his large domestic policy bill by July 4th. On Truth Social, he lashed out at Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who continues to insist he won't vote for the bill if a debt limit increase is included in the package. I don't make it personal at all. I like the president, supported the president. |
| 0:58.0 | In fact, I'm for the tax cuts. I am for a lot of the bill. |
| 1:02.0 | But I can't in good conscience give up every principle that I stand for, |
| 1:06.0 | and every principle that I was elected upon, and that's that you can't accumulate more debt. |
| 1:11.6 | Senate Majority Leader John Thune ruled out dropping an extension of the debt ceiling from the budget bill. |
| 1:16.6 | Republican senators are still weighing issues they have with the version House Republicans passed last month. |
| 1:22.6 | But Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso told reporters that they'll huddle tomorrow, as they |
| 1:27.6 | move to make changes. |
| 1:30.5 | Middle-class and wealthier Americans are heading to Dollar General. |
| 1:34.2 | This morning, the discounted chain set sales at stores open at least a year, had increased |
| 1:39.1 | 2.4% last quarter, which it partly attributed to middle-income consumers looking to save money. |
| 1:45.9 | Sienna-Faruhar explains what that means for the wider economy. |
| 1:50.0 | Dollar General is an interesting case study in this because on the one hand, you're going to see |
| 1:53.4 | more people going to low-cost shopping to try and buffer. But at the same time, even |
| 1:59.5 | companies like this, the Dollar Gener's, the Walmarts, |
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