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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
'Everyone in line': Senate GOP scrambles to please Trump by passing unpopular megabill
The Senate spent more than 12 hours on Monday debating President Trump's megabill in a marathon vote-a-rama. But with the final vote count unclear, and Elon Musk loudly bashing the bill, do Republicans have any hopes of passing it by Trump's Friday deadline? Melanie Zanona, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Susan Glasser, and David Drucker join Stephanie Ruhle on The 11th Hour.
RNZ News
2 days ago
- Politics
- RNZ News
US Senate back debating big beautiful bill
world politics policy 36 minutes ago The US Senate is back debating Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" this morning, after a long weekend of late-night negotiations and changes. POLITICO's Senior Legal Affairs Reporter Josh Gerstein spoke to Corin Dann.
The Guardian
3 days ago
- Business
- The Guardian
Senate wrangles over Trump's ‘one big beautiful bill' to continue
Update: Date: 2025-06-30T09:32:35.000Z Title: Opening summary: Senate wrangles over Trump's 'one big beautiful bill' to continue Content: Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics with senators scheduled to start voting on a potentially long list of amendments to Donald Trump's 'one big beautiful bill' beginning at 9 am EDT. Yesterday, Republicans in the Senate Republicans pushed Trump's sweeping tax cut and spending bill forward in a marathon weekend session even as a nonpartisan forecaster said it would add an estimated $3.3 trillion to the nation's debt over a decade. The estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of the bill's hit to the $36.2 trillion federal debt is about $800 billion more than the version passed last month in the House of Representatives. 'Republicans are doing something the Senate has never, never done before, deploying fake math and accounting gimmicks to hide the true cost of the bill,' Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said as debate opened on Sunday. The Senate only narrowly advanced the tax-cut, immigration, border and military spending bill in a procedural vote late on Saturday, voting 51-49 to open debate on the 940-page megabill. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, one of two Republicans who voted to block the bill, explained his position in a speech to the Senate, saying White House aides had failed to give Trump proper advice about the legislation's Medicaid cuts. 'What do I tell 663,00 people in two years, three years, when president Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid because the funding's not there anymore,' Tillis said, referring to his constituents. Tillis said he would not seek re-election next year, after Trump threatened to back a primary challenger in retribution for Tillis' Saturday night vote against the bill. On Sunday, Trump celebrated Tillis' announcement as 'Great News!' on Truth Social and issued a warning to fellow Republicans who have concerns over the bill. 'REMEMBER, you still have to get reelected. Don't go too crazy!' Trump wrote in a post. Tillis' North Carolina seat is one of the few Republican Senate seats seen as vulnerable in next year's midterm elections. Read the full story here: In other news: Donald Trump has said he is not speaking to Iran and was not offering the country 'anything', as he claimed that America 'totally obliterated' Tehran's nuclear facilities when it struck them earlier this month. Trump's comments, posted to Truth Social this morning, followed reports that his administration had discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30bn to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear program. The University of Virginia received 'explicit' notification from the Trump administration that the school would endure cuts to university jobs, research funding and student aid as well as visas if the institution's president, Jim Ryan, did not resign, according to a US senator. In an interview with CBS, Virginia Democrat Mark Warner defended Ryan – who has championed diversity policies that the president opposes – and predicted Trump would similarly target other universities. Donald Trump said he was weighing forcing journalists who published leaked details from a US intelligence report assessing the impact of the recent American military strikes on Iran to reveal their sources. The president also claimed his administration may prosecute those reporters and sources if they don't comply. The president threatened to block New York City from receiving federal funds if favoured mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, 'doesn't behave himself' should he be elected. Mamdani, meanwhile, denied that he was – as the president claimed – a communist. But he reaffirmed his commitment to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers while saying: 'I don't think that we should have billionaires.' Blood-sucking ticks that trigger a bizarre allergy to meat in the people they bite are exploding in number and spreading across the US, to the extent that they could cover the entire eastern half of the country and infect millions of people, experts warn. Iran's ambassador to the UN said the Islamic republic's nuclear enrichment 'will never stop' because it is permitted for 'peaceful energy' purposes under the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. 'The enrichment is our right,' Iravani told CBS News.
Fox News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Capitol Police arrest man who disrupted Senate debate on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill': 'You people are awful'
A man was arrested by Capitol Police on Sunday after interrupting the Senate debate on President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," shouting from the Senate Galleries that the lawmakers are "horrible." Allen D. Rogers, of Florida, was arrested for unlawful conduct after he refused to obey officers' orders to stop the disruption, according to police. "At approximately 7:00 p.m., our officers arrested a man who started being disruptive in the Senate Galleries," police said in a statement. The interruption happened between speeches by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on the Republican-backed spending bill. Rogers was heard shouting criticisms at lawmakers from the galleries, including "you people are awful" and "you're horrible," although most of what he said was intelligible. His remarks appeared to be targeting Republican lawmakers. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., was the presiding officer at the time of the disruption. McCormick was seen looking up and to his left into the gallery and repeatedly saying "the Sergeant at Arms will restore order in the gallery" while Rogers was shouting attacks at lawmakers. Fox News has reached out to Capitol Police for additional information on this incident.
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Senate GOP declines to meet with parliamentarian on whether Trump tax cuts add to deficit
Senate Democrats have tried multiple times to have a meeting with their GOP counterparts and the Senate parliamentarian to decide the crucial procedural question of whether extending President Trump's expiring 2017 tax cuts adds to future federal deficits. And Republicans so far have 'flat out refused' to have any such discussion, they say. The partisan battle over how to 'score' the budgetary impact of making Trump's 2017 tax cuts permanent could determine whether Senate Republicans would need to rewrite the sprawling 940-page bill on the Senate floor. Democrats must decide whether to force Republicans to obtain a parliamentarian ruling on the Senate floor Monday on whether making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent would violate Senate rules. An adverse ruling on the issue could derail the bill, but Republicans are confident that won't happen. Democrats say Republicans are trying to dodge Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough from ruling on whether the tax portion of the 'big, beautiful bill' exceeds the reconciliation package's deficit target for 2025 to 2034 and whether it increase deficits beyond 2034. Democrats think that if MacDonough weighs in on the subject, she would rule that Senate precedent requires that changes in tax law be scored on a 'current law' baseline. Such a ruling would show extending the Trump tax cuts permanently violates the Senate's Byrd Rule. A person close to the conversation said that Senate Budget Committee Republicans 'flat out refused' to meet with the parliamentarian to talk about what baseline should be used for Trump's big, beautiful bill. Democrats 'asked that this be adjudicated by the parliamentarian,' and Republicans 'have refused, basically saying they can do what they want,' said the source familiar with the behind-the-scenes debate. Democrats brought up the issue at the start of the 'Byrd bath' process for the bill. Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) again tried to meet with Republicans this past week to discuss the budget baseline with the parliamentarian, and Republicans once again declined to participate, according to the source. The Byrd Rule determines what legislation is eligible to pass the Senate with a simple-majority vote and avoid a filibuster. It states that legislation passed on the reconciliation fast track must comply with the reconciliation instructions, and it requires that the legislation not increase the deficit in fiscal years beyond the budget window. Merkley on Sunday circulated a letter he received from Congressional Budget Office Director Phillip Swagel stating that the Finance portion of the GOP megabill would increase the deficit by nearly $3.5 trillion over the 2025-2034 window, exceeding the target set by the reconciliation instructions. Swagel also told Merkley that the Finance text would 'increase deficits in years after 2034.' That would appear to violate the Byrd Rule and subject the entire bill to a 60-vote, point-of-order objection. Republicans, however, say that the parliamentarian doesn't have a role in judging how much the tax portion of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would add to the deficit within the bill's 10-year budget window or whether it would add to deficits beyond 2034. They argue that Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has authority under Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act 'to determine baseline numbers of spending and revenue.' Ryan Wrasse, a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), pointed to a Budget Committee report published when Democrats were in the majority in 2022 stating that the Budget Committee, through its chair, makes the call on questions of numbers, not the parliamentarian. Graham received a letter from Swagel on Saturday stating that the Finance Committee's tax text does not exceed its reconciliation instructions or add to deficits after 2034 when scored on the 'current-policy' baseline that Graham wants the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) and CBO to use. Taylor Reidy, a spokesperson for the Budget panel, asserted on the social platform X that 'there is no need to have a parliamentarian meeting with respect to current policy baseline because Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act gives Sen. Graham — as Chairman of the Budget Committee — the authority to set the baseline.' Senate Democrats, however, argue that a current-policy baseline has never been used for a budget reconciliation package before and that directing how the JCT and CBO score a bill violates the spirit of the Byrd Rule and Section 313 of the 1974 Budget Act, which determines what can get into a reconciliation package. Democrats note that conservative Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a fiscal hawk, compared the 'current-policy' baseline to 'fairy dust' if it's used to argue that extending tax cuts doesn't add to the deficit. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
