Live updates: Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill' awaits Senate vote

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11 hours ago

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Date: 6 min ago
Title: Vice President Vance at Capitol as vote-a-rama drags on
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Vice President JD Vance has arrived at the US Capitol as lawmakers continue their marathon voting session to try to advance President Donald Trump's domestic policy agenda by July 4.
Asked whether he thinks GOP senators will get the bill across the finish line Tuesday, Vance said: 'We're gonna find out.'
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Date: 6 min ago
Title: Thune suggests marathon voting series may end soon, saying "we're close," but no final vote is scheduled yet
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated that the Senate's marathon voting series could wrap at some point sooner rather than later, telling reporters, 'we're close.'
Thune added they still have 'a few amendment votes' until final passage on President Donald Trump's sweeping agenda bill.
Thune said they are 'hitting the end here' but refused to give a number for how many amendment votes are left.
It's important to note, however, that It's still unclear how long the process will take and impossible to predict timing with no final vote yet scheduled.
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Date: 11 min ago
Title: Senate easily adopts amendment to move up eligibility verification requirement for Medicaid by one year
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The Senate adopted an amendment to President Donald Trump's megabill by voice vote that would move up the eligibility verification requirement for Medicaid by one year. This is the third amendment they have adopted.
GOP Sen. John Kennedy, who introduced the measure, said on the floor that 'this bill, unfortunately, says that those who administer Medicaid don't have to check before they write a check to see if the dead person is dead until January 1, 2028. My amendment would move it up to January 1, 2027, so we would pay fewer dead people who keep cashing the checks.'
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden replied that Senate Democrats would accept a voice vote, asking, 'Why would anybody vote against this?'
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Date: 11 min ago
Title: Senate adopts amendment to allow state AI laws to take effect
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The Senate overwhelmingly adopted an amendment striking language from President Donald Trump's domestic policy agenda bill that would have blocked state and local governments from enforcing their own artificial intelligence regulations for 10 years.
GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn led the amendment, which was adopted 99-1. Only Sen. Thom Tillis voted no.
Some context: Several House Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, had warned that they could not support the bill for final passage if it still contained the AI moratorium. While some senators had thought it would fall out in the parliamentary review process known as the 'Byrd Bath,' lawmakers ended up having to vote to remove it from the bill.
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Date: 11 min ago
Title: Measure to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood will remain in Trump policy bill
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A pared-back measure to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood will remain in President Donald Trump's sweeping policy bill, following a green light from the Senate parliamentarian.
The decision came after GOP lawmakers tweaked the bill language late Friday, narrowing the proposed block on funding from a decade to just one year. The move was aimed at sidestepping procedural hurdles under the Senate's Byrd Rule.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated previously that the 10-year ban would cost taxpayers $52 million over a decade. Planned Parenthood has warned the measure could drive hundreds of clinics — which also provide birth control, STI testing, cancer screenings and gynecological care — to close. Roughly 90% of those clinics are in states where abortion remains legal, Planned Parenthood said.
'Whether Congress 'defunds' Planned Parenthood health centers for one year or 10, the impact is the same,' Planned Parenthood Action Fund president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said in a statement on Sunday. ''Defunding' will exacerbate the chaos of our country's already fragile reproductive health care infrastructure.'