🏛️ Senate Gears Up for “Big Beautiful Bill” Vote

Trillion-dollar tax plan advances as GOP eyes July 4 deadline despite internal pushback.

June 28, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

🏛️ Senate Gears Up for “Big Beautiful Bill” Vote

  • Senate Republicans, led by John Thune, aim for an initial procedural vote tomorrow (Saturday, June 28) on their trillion-dollar tax-and-spending package—a reconciliation vehicle meant to bypass the filibuster.

  • Highlights include making parts of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, eliminating taxes on tips/overtime, boosting border security, repealing green‑energy credits, and extending the SALT deduction cap to $40K for five years.

  • Yet internal resistance is rising over proposed Medicaid/SNAP cuts and a projected $3 trillion-plus deficit increase—plus a significant budget hole noted by Senate Republicans.

🔍 White House Downgrades Weekend Trip—Staying to Lobby

  • Trump cancelled his classified New Jersey weekend trip to remain in D.C., pushing the bill as imperative to avoid missing his self-imposed July 4 deadline

  • The administration is actively negotiating with holdouts—both in the Senate and House—to finalize the revisions.

⚖️ Supreme Court & Senate Reject Iran-War Resolution

  • The Supreme Court issued rulings enhancing executive power (e.g. restricting nationwide injunctions), echoing a Senate vote 53–47 rejecting a resolution that would require Congress to approve further military action against Iran.

  • This deepens the growing tension between Congress and the executive branch over war powers.

🏙️ States Push Back on Federal Funding Cuts

  • Nearly 50 cities—including New Haven—filed lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s proposed termination of the Environmental & Climate Justice Block Grant, citing essential budget impacts.

  • Statehood and federalism remain flashpoints as urban centers fight policies they see as politically motivated funding punishments.

âś… Bottom Line

Congress is neck‑deep in last-minute maneuvering as a weekend showdown looms over the “Big Beautiful Bill”—a sprawling package with massive tax incentives and spending cuts. With rising opposition around deficit, entitlement, and climate concerns, the outcome remains uncertain. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court and Senate are entrenching executive power, even as local governments push back hard.

đź‘Ł What You Can Do

  • Track tomorrow’s Senate procedural vote—it sets the pace for final passage.

  • Watch for key holdouts: Moody conservative Republicans and fiscal centrists (e.g. Murkowski, Collins, Paul).

  • Monitor related legal challenges and Supreme Court moves—these reflect deeper undercurrents of power shifts.

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