US Senate votes on amendments to Trump’s ‘large, stunning invoice’
Good morning and welcome to our dwell protection of US politics and the second Trump administration.
The US Senate is holding a marathon vote on a sprawling price range that’s important to Donald Trump’s agenda and would see sweeping tax breaks and cuts to healthcare and meals programmes if handed.
Senators have convened on the Capitol for a course of referred to as “vote-a-rama”, during which lawmakers will suggest amendments to the laws over what is anticipated to be many hours.
Democrats say the invoice’s tax cuts would disproportionately profit the rich on the expense of social packages for lower-income Individuals.
The One Huge Lovely Invoice Act (sure, it’s formally referred to as this) is anticipated so as to add an estimated $3.3tn to the nationwide debt over the following decade. Republicans are speeding to cross the invoice Trump’s self-imposed deadline of 4 July.
Republicans – who management each chambers of Congress and are usually loyal to Trump – are closely divided over how deep welfare cuts must be in an effort to lengthen tax breaks within the laws.
It’s about 2.30am in Washington and it has been over 16 hours since voting started. We expect a lead to round two and a half/ three hours time. Stick with us for all the newest developments.
The 940-page One Huge Lovely Invoice Act has consumed Congress as its shared precedence with Donald Trump. {Photograph}: Nathan Howard/Reuters
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The Senate parliamentarian discovered that Republicans can embrace a provision that might block Medicaid funding from Deliberate Parenthood within the “large, stunning invoice”.
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Starting early on Monday and to this point having run for roughly 19 hours, it stays unclear how lengthy the voting within the marathon ‘vote-a-rama’ will final.
Republicans can afford to lose not more than three votes in both chamber to cross a invoice the Democrats are united in opposition to.
If authorized within the Republican-controlled Senate, Trump’s One Huge Lovely Invoice Act will return to the decrease Home of Representatives, additionally Republican managed, which handed its personal model by a single vote on the finish of Might (215 to 214).
Within the Home, a full vote on the Senate’s ultimate model of the invoice might then come as early as Wednesday morning.
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The senate has adopted an modification supplied by Republican senator Joni Ernst – who represents Iowa – to forestall jobless millionaires from claiming unemployment compensation.
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Lawmakers voted 99-1 to strike the AI regulation ban from the invoice by adopting an modification supplied by Republican senator Marsha Blackburn.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis, who introduced his retirement on Sunday after voting to not proceed with the megabill, was the lone lawmaker who voted to retain the ban.
The Senate model of Trump’s laws would have solely restricted states regulating AI from tapping a brand new $500m fund to assist AI infrastructure.
Main AI corporations, together with Alphabet’s Google and OpenAI, have expressed assist for Congress taking AI regulation out of the palms of states.
US Senator Marsha Blackburn has been a key proponent of the Children On-line Security Act, which she reintroduced in Might. {Photograph}: Ken Cedeno/Reuters
Blackburn introduced her modification to strike the availability a day after agreeing to compromise language with Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz that might have minimize the ban to 5 years and allowed states to manage points corresponding to defending artists’ voices or baby on-line security if they didn’t impose an “undue or disproportionate burden” on AI.
However Blackburn withdrew her assist for the compromise earlier than the modification vote.
In an announcement, the Tennessee Republican stated:
The present language will not be acceptable to those that want these protections probably the most.
Till Congress passes federally preemptive laws just like the Children On-line Security Act and a web-based privateness framework, we are able to’t block states from making legal guidelines that defend their residents.
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US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump megabill
The Republican-led US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to take away a 10-year federal ban on state regulation of AI from Trump’s mega invoice, Reuters is reporting. Extra particulars quickly…
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Trump officers create searchable nationwide citizenship database
Johana Bhuiyan
Johana Bhuiyan is a senior tech reporter and editor for Guardian US, primarily based in San Francisco
The US Division of Homeland Safety has for the primary time constructed a nationwide citizenship database that mixes data from immigration businesses and the social safety administration.
The database was created in collaboration with the “division of presidency effectivity” (Doge) in an effort to bridge the gaps between disparate data sources to make it simpler to find out whether or not somebody is a citizen, in keeping with NPR, which first reported the main points of the database.
The database is the results of an growth of the systematic alien verification for entitlements (Save) program, made up of smaller databases throughout the homeland safety division, and an integration with data from the Social Safety Administration.
The centralized repository is searchable and may be accessed by state and native election officers to search for the names of anybody making an attempt to vote to find out if they’re residents, in keeping with NPR. Till now, election officers needed to ask potential voters for paperwork verifying their citizenship or depend on a hard-to-navigate patchwork of databases.
You’ll be able to learn the complete story right here:
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Some extra information from the US senate now, the place Republicans are – for probably the most half – nonetheless making an attempt to cross Trump’s mega-bill.
Maine’s Republican senator Susan Collins has blamed Democrats for tanking her modification to extend the invoice’s rural hospital aid fund, saying they’re “hypocrites” for championing themselves as protectors of Medicaid however then opposing her efforts to cut back the impacts of the laws on rural hospitals.
“I used to be stunned on the hypocrisy of the Democrats on it, had they voted for it will have handed simply,” ABC Information quoted Collins as having advised reporters this morning.
Solely two Democrats out of twenty-two senators supported Collins’ modification, which might have seen the creation of a brand new prime marginal tax charge used to double the dimensions of the proposed rural hospital aid fund from $25bn to $50bn.
Collins added:
They complained repeatedly in regards to the distribution on this invoice of Medicaid cuts, hurting people in rural hospitals and tax cuts being prolonged for people who find themselves rich. And but, once we tried to repair each these issues, they took a really hypocritical strategy.
Rural and smaller hospitals are vulnerable to chapter due to the steep Medicaid cuts being proposed within the price range invoice.
It’s unclear whether or not Susan Collins will assist the invoice’s ultimate passage or not. {Photograph}: Elizabeth Frantz/ReutersShare
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Musk vows to unseat lawmakers who assist Trump’s invoice and threatens forming an ‘America Social gathering’ if it passes
Elon Musk has vowed to unseat lawmakers who assist Donald Trump’s sweeping price range invoice, which he has criticized as a result of it will improve the nation’s deficit by $3.3tn.
Musk wrote on his social media platform, X:
Each member of Congress who campaigned on decreasing authorities spending after which instantly voted for the most important debt improve in historical past ought to grasp their head in disgrace!
And they’re going to lose their main subsequent yr whether it is the very last thing I do on this Earth.
A couple of hours later he added that if “insane spending invoice passes, the America Social gathering will probably be shaped the following day”.
Elon Musk receives a golden key from Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace on 30 Might, 2025. {Photograph}: Nathan Howard/Reuters
With these threats, lobbed at lawmakers over social media, the tech billionaire has launched himself again right into a rift with the US president he helped prop up.
Since taking go away from his so-called “division of presidency effectivity”, or Doge, Musk has sharply criticized Trump’s price range invoice, which he has stated will undermine his work at Doge by growing spending.
You’ll be able to learn the complete story by my colleague, Maanvi Singh, right here:
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What are some key components contained throughout the price range invoice?
The Senate invoice consists of $4.5tn in tax cuts, in keeping with the newest evaluation from the congressional price range workplace, making everlasting Trump’s 2017 charges, which might expire on the finish of the yr if Congress fails to behave.
The Senate bundle would roll again billions of {dollars} in inexperienced power tax credit, which Democrats warn will wipe out wind and photo voltaic investments nationwide.
It will impose $1.2tn in cuts, largely to Medicaid and meals stamps, by imposing stricter work necessities, making sign-up eligibility extra stringent and altering federal reimbursements to states. Medicaid offers government-sponsored well being look after low-income and disabled Individuals.
The invoice would supply a $350bn infusion for border and nationwide safety, together with for deportations, a few of it paid for with new charges charged to immigrants.
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Democrats vow to convey ‘modification after modification to the ground’
Senate minority chief Chuck Schumer says Democrats will convey “modification after modification after modification to the ground, so Republicans can defend their billionaire tax cuts.”
He stated Democrats would provide amendments to “see as soon as and for all if Republicans actually meant all these good issues they’ve been saying about ‘strengthening Medicaid’ and ‘defending middle-class households’, or in the event that they have been simply mendacity”.
Senate minority chief Chuck Schumer stated the general public was on the Democrats aspect “in nearly each modification we do”. {Photograph}: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Because the marathon session grinds into the early hours of the morning, some lawmakers are discovering methods to loosen up or vent away from the warmth of the chamber.
GOP senators took breaks from the Senate flooring as properly.
Republican US senator Tommy Tuberville, of Alabama, smoked a cigar on the Capitol terrace at sundown whereas different GOP senators took calls and chatted in rooms close to the Senate chamber.
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This weekend’s dramatic senate session noticed a slim 51-49 passing of a procedural vote on Saturday evening to advance the price range invoice and a compelled studying of the 940-page invoice by Democrats, a political manoeuvre that was deployed to stall its progress.
Two Republicans sided with Democrats in voting in opposition to opening debate, wanting to alter components of the contentious laws.
One among these Republicans was the North Carolina reasonable Thom Tillis, who stated the bundle was a betrayal of Donald Trump’s promise to not withdraw healthcare from folks, one thing he fears might occur if rural hospitals shut. The opposite was Rand Paul of Kentucky.
The invoice should now clear a proper Senate vote and be returned to the decrease Home for approval – which Trump desires completed earlier than a self-imposed Fourth of July vacation deadline.
As my colleague Chris Stein explains on this story, after Tillis declined to vote for the invoice, Trump attacked him and the senator introduced he wouldn’t stand for re-election subsequent yr, doubtlessly enhancing Democrats’ probabilities of choosing up the purple state’s seat.
Sen. Thom Tillis solutions questions from reporters after leaving the Senate chamber throughout a vote-a-rama on the US Capitol on 30 June 2025. {Photograph}: Bonnie Money/UPI/ShutterstockShare
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US Senate votes on amendments to Trump’s ‘large, stunning invoice’
Good morning and welcome to our dwell protection of US politics and the second Trump administration.
The US Senate is holding a marathon vote on a sprawling price range that’s important to Donald Trump’s agenda and would see sweeping tax breaks and cuts to healthcare and meals programmes if handed.
Senators have convened on the Capitol for a course of referred to as “vote-a-rama”, during which lawmakers will suggest amendments to the laws over what is anticipated to be many hours.
Democrats say the invoice’s tax cuts would disproportionately profit the rich on the expense of social packages for lower-income Individuals.
The One Huge Lovely Invoice Act (sure, it’s formally referred to as this) is anticipated so as to add an estimated $3.3tn to the nationwide debt over the following decade. Republicans are speeding to cross the invoice Trump’s self-imposed deadline of 4 July.
Republicans – who management each chambers of Congress and are usually loyal to Trump – are closely divided over how deep welfare cuts must be in an effort to lengthen tax breaks within the laws.
It’s about 2.30am in Washington and it has been over 16 hours since voting started. We expect a lead to round two and a half/ three hours time. Stick with us for all the newest developments.
The 940-page One Huge Lovely Invoice Act has consumed Congress as its shared precedence with Donald Trump. {Photograph}: Nathan Howard/Reuters
In different information:
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who spent greater than 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} in assist of Trump’s candidacy, has pledged to discovered a brand new political social gathering he referred to as the “America Social gathering” and assist candidates who didn’t again the price range invoice in future elections.
The Senate parliamentarian discovered that Republicans can embrace a provision that might block Medicaid funding from Deliberate Parenthood within the “large, stunning invoice”.
Trump signed an government order overturning sanctions on Syria right this moment and issued a memorandum on US coverage towards Cuba.
The Trump administration sued the town of Los Angeles over insurance policies limiting metropolis cooperation with federal immigration authorities, persevering with a confrontation over Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation efforts within the largely Democratic metropolis.
The Trump administration knowledgeable Harvard College that its investigation discovered that the college violated federal civil rights regulation over its therapy of Jewish and Israeli college students, placing its federal funding additional in danger.
Trump will host Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the White Home on 7 July.
Trump wrote to Fed chair Jerome Powell once more urging him to decrease rates of interest.
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