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As Senate Republican leaders push to a massive bill for Trump’s agenda by July 4, they are juggling a host of competing demands.
Some senators are genuine threats to vote against the legislation, while others are expected to support it in the end after using their demands to shape it. Several of them have complicated political considerations. The Republicans who are speaking out most loudly point to a variety of ways the House-passed bill may change in the Senate, as party leaders seek to ease enough of their concerns.
With all Democrats expected to vote against the package, Republicans will need at least 50 votes to pass it, as Vice President JD Vance could break a tie.
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Could there be peace on the horizon? Politico reported last night that Trump was due to call Elon Musk today in an attempt to halt the spiraling fallout and “broker a peace.”
But when NBC News asked Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, about this, she said, “There are no plans for that today.”
A senior White House official told NBC News that Trump is “not interested in Elon call.”
An administration official added, “There could be anything — I’d like to de-escalate a very unfortunate situation. But there are no calls on the books, at least not now.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said of Trump, “The president is focused on the OBBB,” referring to the GOP bill containing much of Trump’s policy agenda. “That’s the mindset he left the Oval Office in yesterday.”
Looking at new ways to pay for their sprawling bill for Trump’s domestic agenda, Republicans are exploring ideas to slash “waste, fraud and abuse” in Medicare, several senators said yesterday.
And Trump has blessed the pursuit, they said.
“I think anything that can be — that’s waste, fraud and abuse are open to, obviously, discussions,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters.
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A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s efforts to deny visas for foreign students planning to attend Harvard, after the Ivy League college filed a legal challenge.
U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs granted a temporary restraining order yesterday that enjoins anyone from “implementing, instituting, maintaining, enforcing, or giving force or effect to the Presidential Proclamation” that Trump issued Wednesday.
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The bromance may be dead, but Republicans worry that an escalating feud between Trump and Musk could live on, leaving collateral damage in its wake for weeks, months or even years.
The proximate cause is the centerpiece of Trump’s agenda, the “big, beautiful bill,” which Musk is trashing publicly and privately. To try to kill the legislation, he has said he will spend money to oust Republican lawmakers who vote for it.
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