Big Beautiful Bill advances as Democrats Stall plus Trump Wins BIG at SCOTUS

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You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Good Monday morning. So nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a
pack show for you. First up, the Big Beautiful Bill.
It is well sausage being made in the Senate. Democrats
doing everything they can to try to stop this from
becoming a reality. I'll give you the latest on where
we are right now on that. Also, who are the

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Republicans that decide to vote against the Big Beautiful Bill
moving forward in the Senate. Well, one of them is
just announced they're not running for reelection, and we'll give
you those details as well. And finally, not one, not two,
but three major Supreme Court cases have been massive victories
for the Trump administration. The rule of law, Why is

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It's the forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now,
story number one. So let's give you a big update
on the big beautiful bill. It is a very important

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part of Donald Trump's momentum moving forward and can have
a massive impact on lower and middle class Americans especially.
So let's start with where we are now. The Senate
voted fifty one to forty nine along party lines to
move the bill forward into what they describe as formal debate. Now,

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you may ask why was it so tight of a
vote Senator's Tom Tillis, And we're going to have an
update on Tom Tillis in a moment. What we're hearing
after this vote, as well as Senator Ram Paul. They
decided to go with the Democrats opposing the motion. GOP
leaders had to strike last minute deals to secure the votes,

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and it did pass fifty one forty nine to move forward. Now.
It is nine and forty pages long. It is covering
a lot. It's covering tax cuts, it's covering medicaid. It's
also covering snap food stamp benefits. It is expanding border
and deportation funding. It also has defense and clean energy

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tax changes, as well as an increased salt deduction cap,
as well as child tax credit changes. Now, here's what
this bill looks like in its grand form, nine hundred
and forty pages long. What we're hearing from the Congressional
Budget Office is it estimates it will add three point
three trillion dollars to the national debt over ten years

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and result in eleven million fewered they claim insured individuals
by twenty thirty four. That's what Democrats are seizing on
right now to say this is a terrible bill. But
let's talk about what is actually reality here. Donald Trump
coming out praising the vote is a great victory and
pushing this for the final vote by July fourth, Democrats

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led by Chuck Schumer are now forcing and you want
to talk about a moment of hypocrisy, they are actually
forcing to stall the vote. A quote full reading of
the nine hundred and forty page texts it will be
sixteen to twenty hours. Why are they doing that to
slow the proceedings? Now? You may remember back in the

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day when Nancy Pelosi, referring to Obamacare, said we won't
know what's in the bill until we pass the bill.
Apparently now they're more than happy to read a bill
only if it means stalling Donald Trump's agenda. Now, there
have been a lot of critics, Elon Musk calling it
utter insanity, Ram Paul mon Child account provision at and

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making jobs also at Elon Musk, Senator Mark Warner calling
it a political albatross. So there's always going to be
people that don't like what is in the bill, and
you're hearing from them right now. The big question is
what is next? Well, Number one, the debate is ongoing
as I'm recording this. Sinners now have a marathon vote,

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as they described it, a vote a rama session to
propose amendments. And what Democrats are trying to do is
they're trying to tie amendments to this bill that would
kill the bill, hurt the bill that no Republican would
ever want to vote for. That is to try to
stop the bill from becoming law or to postpone this
bill so they can get more things in there that

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they want. There is also what we refer to as
the sausage being made many Republicans who aren't hardcore conservative
American first individuals. They're wanting something for their vote. And
that doesn't count the Democrats who are doing a whole
hell of a lot of horse trading as we speak
right now. Now you have parliamentarian ruling, all right. They
have already struck down several provisions under the Bird rule limits,

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and that further adjustments are expected to this bill before
the final vote. Once amendments wrap up, a final Senate
vote is likely to happen sometime this week, possibly or
in theory the president is hoping it will be a
July fourth celebration. More than likely, this could happen on Tuesday,

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maybe Wednesday, as far away as Thursday or Friday. Now,
if it passes, and many Conservatives expect that it is
going to pass, then it would return to the House
for approval yet again, and then it would go to
Donald Trump's desk for signing, potentially as he is asking

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for it before the July fourth, And that is the
goal of the GOP and the administration. So let's just
give a quick recap on what I've given you. In substance,
it advanced in the Senate in a massive fifty one
to forty nine procedural vote. That was the biggest hurdle.
This is the reason why I and the White House believe,
and insiders on Capitol Hill are telling me they believe

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this will become law. They are key contents to this
that every American should care about. Number one, and the
biggest thing is broad tax cuts. There's also safety net
reductions for those that deal with waste, fraud, and abuse.
Many Americans voted for that, and that is where people
are saying, Okay, what's next. There's also the argument that

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if we did nothing, we would actually see the deficit
grow at even a faster rate than the three point
three trillion that this is going to cost. So now
you are up to date on where we are at
the very moment and what is happening as we speak.
It is called vote rama. It is voting on amendment
after amendment after they read this bill, which will take

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sixteen to eighteen nineteen hours depending on who you talk to,
and then the final votes in the Senate. In theory,
are going to happen early this week, then House concurrence,
and then Donald Trump will sign off on this bill,
hoping to celebrate it on the fourth of July, which
would be a very monumental moment for him. So this

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is where we are good things change. Yes, are their
Democrats right now trying to derail all of this. Absolutely.
By the way, there's also Republicans that are trying to
derail this as well, which brings me to my second story.
Tom tillis one of the two Republicans that vote against
the Big Beautiful Bill, is not running for reelection after

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opposing the Big Beautiful Bill. Senator Tom tillis a Republican
from North Carolina, announcing that he's not running for reelection,
and in a statement issued on Sunday, Tillis highlighted how
he is quote proud of his career in public service.
Tillis also expected he is most proud of his bipartisan victories,

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such as passing the first nation eugenics compensation as speaker
and working across the aisle in the Senate to pass
the largest investment in mental health in the history of
the United States of America. Till has continued to admit
that sometimes quote those bipartisan initiatives got him in trouble
with his own own party, saying this in Washington. Over

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the last few years, it's been increasingly evident that leaders
who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, embrace compromise, and demonstrate
independent thinking are becoming an endangered species. Democrats recently lost
two such leaders who were dedicated to making the Senate

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more of a functional and productive legislative body. Tillis continued,
they got things done, but they were shunned after they
courageously refused to cave to their party bosses to nuke
the filibuster for the sake of political expediency. They ultimately retired,
and their presence and Senate Chamber has been sorely missed
every day since. Till has continued on this grand standing

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moment and expressed that he was beyond grateful for his
friends that he had made and added, and that he
looked forward to continuing to serve North Carolina over the
next eighteen months. Tillis issuing this statement also Saturday, expressing
that he had done his homework on behalf of North
Carolinas and was unable to support the big, beautiful bill

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in its current form, saying I did my homework, I
cannot support the bill. It would result in tens of
billions of dollars in loss funding for North Carolina, including
our hospitals and rural communities. This will force the state
to make painful decisions like eliminating Medicaid coverage for one
hundreds of thousands and the expansion population, and even reducing
critical services for those in traditional Medicaid population. So there

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you have it. Now. Donald Trump did have a response
to this. Trump expressed in a post on True Social
that the people of North Carolina would not allow Tillis
to grant stand in order to get some publicity for himself, saying, quote,
looks like Senator Tillis, as usual, wants to tell the
nation he's giving them a sixty eight percent tax increase
as opposed to big tax cuts in American history, that
I'm giving them the same time, he's unable to understand

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the importance of a dead extension, which Republicans gave to
the Democrats just prior to the Nomber fifth election, because
of its significant and how important it was for the
future of the USA. Trump riding in a post now
at the end of the day, Tom Tillis vote the
way he did for one reason, because he knew he
couldn't win re election, and now he's acting like he

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is a martyr. Thank goodness, Donald Trump is involved, and
I'm sure that he will be helping find a great
America first candidate to run in that election. I want
to also bring to your attention a story that's being underreported,
especially because it's such massive news for the Trump administration

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and law in America. The Supreme Court has come out
with their latest rulings and they have a significant impact
on the country the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court's term
came to a close and it dealt major wins for
President Trump and well as well as the rule of law.

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Three different cases that I want to get into here
so you understand just how big they were. Vumber one
was Trump versus Cassa. It was under the issue of
a universal injunctions. And this is something that was such
a big issue because you had these judges that were
basically blocking the presence agenda. And as they were blocking
the agenda the present, they were doing it in smaller

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lower courts. Well, guess what the Supreme Court says universal
injunctions aren't actually going to work this way moving forward.
There was also another ruling that was massive as well,
and it dealt with the Free Speech Coalition versus the
State of Texas aka the Attorney General there Ken Paxton.
It was a six to three ruling as well, and
it held that Texas's age verification law for porn sites

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is in fact constitutional. This was a massive victory, especially
after we just had to take it down. Act where
you could not bully people by putting up fake pictures
of them neked on the internet or revenge pictures maybe
that you received of someone and then throw them up
on the Internet to get revenge. It was making it
clearly against the law and parties had to take it

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down immediately. They could also be fine. So you look
at this big fight in Texas, it was very simple.
What this was was a moment where we were trying
to protect those eighteen and under from hardcore pornography on
the internet by using age verification. Now, almost every one
of the porn sites in America had gotten together with

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a lobbyists to try to stop this, ensuing Texas to
try to say that this was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court
came down the side of Texas saying they have a
right to protect those eighteen and under from pornography on
the internet and by using age verification. Now, what is
this going to do, for example, in a place like Texas.
It drastically reduces the amount of time that is spent

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on the Internet by underage individuals looking at pornography. And again,
this should be a state's issue, and that's what the
Supreme Court is saying. There was also a third Supreme
Court decision that came down and it was massive Mohammed Verse.
This is Taylor. And what this dealt with is that
hell that parents of public school children can opt out

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of LGBTQ plus curriculum. Now, this is not only a
big win for religious liberty and parental rights, it is
also another example of why it's so important to have
school choice in this country. Now, you look at what
this dealt with, and it was very simple. Should a
parent have the right in a public school to be

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able to opt their child out of the propaganda that
the left is trying to force on them When it
comes to transsexuals, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and everything else under
the LGBTQ plus flag, there are parents that tried to
opt their kids out, and there were schools that said, no,
you cannot do it. It's part of the public school curriculum.
And this was obviously taking away parents' rights. Well, now

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we know that parents do, in fact have a right
to decide what their kids are indoctrinated with, especially when
it's something is controversial and as radical as the extreme
view points of the LGBTQ activist community. Now you look
at all three of these rulings. If these were rulings
in favor of Joe Biden's agenda, for example, it would

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be wall to wall coverage. If this was the rulings
of Barack Obama that helped him when he was the president,
it would have been wall to wall coverage. But there's
a very good chance at about ninety nine percent of
you listening to me right now knew nothing about any
of these three cases that all came down in favor
of parents in came down in favor of the Trump
agenda and the Trump White House and his presidency. The

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Supreme Court, as Fox News put it, rules on Trump's
birthright citizenship order testing lower court power was another one
of the big things that came through the Supreme Court
is also deciding whether to allow parents to show children
from these books in school in the LGBTQ community. Again
a victory for us. This was a massive the White
House putting out a statement putting it this way, saying, quote,

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Today's decision restores the proper separation of powers between the
branches of government. Ending nationwide injunctions is a tremendous victory
for the American people in the rule of law that
coming from the White House Council David Warrington saying quote,
no longer can rogue activist judges abuse their authority to

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dictate the executive powers of the president of the United States.
The Supreme Court ruled. It's a massive victory for the Constitution,
the rule of law, and the presidency itself. The White
House says in their statement, saying this. Since the moment
President Trump took office, low level activist judges have been
exploiting their positions to recap the agenda of which he

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President Trump was overwhelmingly elected. In fact, of the forty
nationwide injunctions filed against Trump's executive actions in his second term,
thirty five of them came from just five far left jurisdictions.
In California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, the District of Columbia. So
now the Trump administration can properly proceed and critical actions

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save the country can happen. Congratulations the Trump Administration for
every American that believes in the rule of law.

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