US Senate Republicans narrowly pass Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill

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BBC News - US Senate Republicans narrowly pass Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill
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— Deanna (@deanna-granny83.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T16:09:23.450Z

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After hours of stalemate, Republicans in the US Senate have narrowly passed Donald Trump's mega-bill on tax and spending, meaning the proposed legislation has cleared one of its key hurdles.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed with Vice-President JD Vance casting a tie-breaking vote after more than 24 hours of debate.

It now heads back to the House, or lower chamber, where it still faces more opposition. An earlier version was cleared by House Republicans by a single-vote margin.

Trump had given the Republican-controlled Congress a deadline of 4 July to send him a final version of the bill to sign into law.

But disputes over the deficit, social programmes and spending levels could create delays, with the president conceding on Tuesday morning it would be "very hard" to meet that deadline.

Despite efforts to galvanise his party, Senate Majority Leader John Thune lost three Republicans - Maine's Susan Collins, North Carolina's Thom Tillis and Kentucky's Rand Paul - in the narrow vote. Collins, Tillis and Paul joined all Democrats in voting against the bill.

[tonekat]

1. Collins actually voted against it?

You know it must be garbage if she took a stand.

As for the cowards who voted in favor of it, may they die with much pain.

[Ursus Rex]

7. STrictly a show vote, I believe.

The GOP can count, too, and they knew it may have been close but Shady would break the tie.

[FBaggins]

18. Fairly common actually

There were probably five or six republicans who said that they would like permission to vote against it, but that they would support it if needed.

Tillis may be the only exception.

[Raven123]

2. I get it

The hold up was figuring out exactly which 3 GOP senators would vote “No.” the rest was theater.

[oldmanlynn]

3. Lisa Murkowski acted like she was against it but voted for it?

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

9. Yes, which shows how full of shit she is.

The same for Josh HeeHawley.

[Bengus81]

16. Yeah...Haulin' Hawley put on his big show for a month or so hoping even the most

brain dead MAGA moron would see him on TV. Then...vote for it like he had always planned to do.

Phony phuckers.....

[Initech]

4. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Trump can go shove this big beautiful bill straight up his ugly, worthless ass!

[BlueKota]

5. The only positive I see is that no Democrats jumped ship

and sided with the fuckers.

[blue_jay]

6. Seems like Collins and Murkowski just take turns on pretending to stand up and do the right thing nt

[DENVERPOPS]

8. Even if

this bill is scaled back, and the majority of the Republican's bill passes..............

It will be the KILL SHOT for the bottom 99%...................Cutting out programs we depend on, and as if that was not enough money, borrowing an additional FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS on top of it all .......as the best gift of all time to the Upper 1% and Corporations.

[llmart]

10. Back when the news media gave the so-called Teapartiers a pass...

their big bugaboo meme was all about the national debt. I doubted very much if they even understood what that meant, but they latched onto "oh my, the Democrats have run up a huge national debt with Obamacare". Blah, blah.

I now doubt they'll get excited about the 5 trillion.

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Where is that video clip of Murkowski pondering a party change? Hmmmm

[JMCKUSICK]

12. I guess the time for principled stands must have died

With Senator John McCain.

The three no votes didn't mean shit, they take turns knowing it won't matter in the end but they can run on......
It was the fourth no that required courage, Josh Hawley had none, Murkowski had non and neither did anyone else.
Here's what else no one is talking about. If, and it's a mighty big if, Dems win back the House and Senate, and happened to get a bill passed and signed, the new true backstop against any of those programs being restored will get shot down by the Supremes on some technical ground.
We've made the mistake for over 40 years now thinking these guys don't know their ass from a hole in the ground and all the while, everything, and I mean everything has gone exactly according to plan.
Wake up America, this is part of a precise recipe where many more ingredients are required to completely bake this cake.
This isn't Goober and his pals from the garage running things, this is a systematic assault on everything we've stood for.

[ananda]

13. Boy, that's quite a population correction we are going to be looking at.

It will be extremely sad and painful for so many of us.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. Thanks to the spineless Freedumb fighters and Lisa M. in particular.

[aggiesal]

15. Also known as, ''The Billionaire Bailout Bill'' n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

17. I feel a death knell to our country. This bill is largely about ICE getting to run rampant and tax cuts forever. Sucks

[Jack Valentino]

19. May they Rest In Peace...