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Velshi

Trump’s One Big Ugly Bill

Velshi

MSNBC

Msnbc, Politics, Weekend News, Ali Velshi, Government, News, News Commentary

4.8687 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What’s inside Trump and the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and why it’s even more devastating than initially believed; New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who was recently arrested by ICE while escorting an undocumented immigrant through court, explains what he’s learned first-hand about the impact of Trump’s immigration crackdown; and after winning the Democratic Mayoral Primary in NYC, it’s clear that Zohran Mamdani’s message of making the city more affordable has struck a nerve. Could it be a new inflection point in American politics?

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0:00.0

Vell she starts now.

0:02.9

All right.

0:09.7

Hey, good morning to you.

0:10.8

It is Saturday, June the 28th.

0:12.3

It is an unusually busy weekend on Capitol Hill as Republicans plow forward with their rushed plan to pass the one big beautiful Bill Act,

0:22.2

a bill that no Democrats and very few Republicans find all that beautiful.

0:27.0

Even Donald Trump is spending a rare weekend in D.C.

0:29.7

So he can dial up the pressure on members of his own party to get their bill to his desk

0:33.8

by the self-imposed and totally arbitrary deadline of July 4th, which is six days from now.

0:39.9

Now, overnight, the Senate finally released the text of its version of the bill.

0:44.7

It's 940 pages long.

0:47.6

That's the big part of the bill.

0:49.4

Senate Republicans will meet for a closed-door policy lunch at 1 p.m.

0:53.2

Eastern today, and the full Senate's going to reconven lunch at 1 p.m. Eastern today, and the full Senate's going to

0:55.8

reconvene at 2 p.m. Eastern. They plan to be in session for the rest of the weekend with the goal

1:01.3

of ultimately passing the bill to fund the president's domestic agenda, which seeks to extend

1:06.0

nearly $4 trillion in tax cuts, tax cuts that would disproportionately benefit the rich and come at the

1:13.4

expense of the most vulnerable Americans. But it's not even assured right now if or when the

1:18.8

Senate can actually pass this. The first step would be to take a vote on something called

1:24.4

a motion to proceed, which would simply allow consideration of the bill

1:28.9

on the Senate floor, and that requires a simple majority vote. Then there will be hours of

1:34.5

debate before they get to the point of final passage. NBC News has learned that Democrats are

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