
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Vice President Vance struck a deal Saturday night with Senate conservatives who want greater Medicaid spending cuts to save President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" from stalling.
The deal hatched in Thune's office paved the way for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to flip his "no" vote on proceeding with the bill to "aye" and for Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) to also vote for the bill.
However, not everyone is happy with the bill. |
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President Trump said that letters to trading partners will be going out soon to establish tariff rates, ahead of the July 8 expiration on the pause on his hefty "reciprocal" tariffs.
"Basically, and I'm for doing it right now, we send letters out to all of the countries explaining to them— we'll look at the deficit we have, or whatever it is with the country. We'll look at how a country treats us. Are they good? Are they not so good? Some countries, we don't care, we'll just send a high number out," Trump said on Fox News "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo. |
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President Trump said that there will be a temporary pass issued for migrants working at farms and in the hospitality industry to allow employers to have more control after the administration has sent mixed messages about exceptions in the mass deportation efforts.
Trump was asked on Fox News "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo about his recent remarks suggesting the administration will ease up on the deportation of people working at farms and hotels.
"I don't back away," he said. "What I do have, I cherish our farmers. And when we go into a farm and we take away people that have been working there for 15 and 20 years, who were good, who possibly came in incorrectly. And what we're going to do is we're going to do something for farmers where we can let the farmer sort of be in charge. The farmer knows he's not going to hire a murderer." |
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| Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday he believed "there's a chance" President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will not achieve Senate passage.
"Senator Murphy, do you think there's any chance that the so-called 'big, beautiful bill' does not pass the Senate?" NBC News's Kristen Welker asked Murphy on "Meet the Press."
"I do think there's a chance it doesn't pass. They are trying to ram it through as quickly as they can, likely in the middle of the night tonight, because every day that this bill hangs out there, it becomes less popular," Murphy replied. |
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| Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said Sunday that he is "very confident" that President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will pass the Senate.
"How confident are you that the bill will pass, senator?" NBC News's Kristen Welker asked on "Meet the Press."
"We're very confident," Mullin replied. "Listen, Kristen, the hardest part was getting on the bill. |
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President Trump said that the future New York City mayor must behave to get support from the federal government in his response to Zohran Mamdani's win in the Democratic mayoral primary.
Trump was asked on Fox News "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo about Mamdani and some of his policies, including fighting back against mass deportation efforts. The president, who was a longtime New York resident, wouldn't say who he would support in the New York mayoral race.
"I can tell you this — whoever is mayor of New York is going to have to behave themselves or the federal government is going down very tough on them financially," he said. |
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| Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) clarified that President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" does not cut Medicaid, but rather it reduces its growth.
During a Sunday interview on ABC's "This Week," Graham was asked about Sen. Thom Tillis's (N.C.) warning that significant changes to Medicaid would be"devastating to North Carolina." Tillis voted against the bill.
Graham said that while he respects Tillis, he said that lawmakers instead "limited the growth of Medicaid." |
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| House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Zohran Mamdani, the winner of New York City's Democratic mayoral primary, must prepare to "aggressively address the rise in antisemitism in the city of New York."
During an appearance on ABC's "This Week," Jeffries criticized Mamdani's use of the phrase "globalize the intifada," which fueled his detractors' accusations of antisemitism.
"Globalizing the intifada by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing," Jeffries said. "He's going to have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward." |
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