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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It is 4 o'clock here in Washington, D.C. I'm Alicia Menendez in for Nicole Wallace. Dismal |
| 0:10.3 | polling, multiple warnings of an electoral wipeout, and a primary threat from the world's richest man. |
| 0:16.9 | Well, none of that deterred Senate Republicans from passing Donald Trump's mega bill. |
| 0:21.6 | In the end, the Senate voted 50-50 to pass the bill. |
| 0:25.6 | J.D. Vance breaking the tie. |
| 0:28.0 | Three Republican senators voting no. |
| 0:30.2 | And now, the bill heads back to the House where Republicans on both ends of the spectrum |
| 0:34.9 | have major issues with it. |
| 0:36.7 | Now, a reminder, the bill guts Medicaid to the tune of $1 trillion, kicks 11.8 million people |
| 0:43.4 | off their health insurance. |
| 0:44.9 | Also, the tax cuts can be extended for some of the richest Americans. |
| 0:49.4 | Not to mention, it turbocharges funding for Trump's mass deportations. |
| 0:53.7 | It also threatens the fiscal future of this country, |
| 0:55.9 | the New York Times, reporting that the deficits that this bill generates, |
| 0:59.5 | quote, could begin a seismic shift in the nation's fiscal trajectory |
| 1:03.4 | and raise the risk of the debt crisis. |
| 1:06.3 | Those are just some of the reasons. |
| 1:08.0 | Both the far-right House Freedom Caucus and moderate blue state |
| 1:11.4 | Republicans have reservations about the bill, which, by the way, no longer has the Trump branding |
| 1:16.4 | of the, quote, one big, beautiful bill. Democrats managed to strike that name out during votes this |
| 1:21.6 | morning. There's also the polling on the legislation, as we reported yesterday. Just 29% support the bill in one poll. |
| 1:29.7 | Even a poll from Donald Trump's favorite network, Fox News, puts approval at 38%. |
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