The Budget Bill is almost at the finish line!

NBC's Rory O'Neill reports that the Budget Bill could be signed into law in the next few hours.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six five in the morning, Thursday, July third, Mike Elliott,
Columbus's Morning News. Let's check in and say good morning
to Rory O'Neil NBC News Radio on the Legacy Retirement
Group dot com phone line. It's the one Big Beautiful Bill.
I don't know if we could still call it that,
or what it's called, or why we even are playing
that game, but that's what it's been called. That's what
we'll call it. Where do we sit now? It's back

(00:21):
in the House. They had the role call kind of
a procedural vote to get us where we are now
before the main full House vote sometime this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Right, so the last gasp from Democrats is being heard
right now. The Minority Leader, Hakim Jeffries has been speaking
for over an hour. As Minority the leader, he can
speak as long as he wants. So let's see what
he does here. We're not expecting, you know, mister Smith
goes to Washington two days of talking catison there. That's
not in the cards, okay, but yeah, no, they twisted

(00:51):
enough arms, got enough Republicans on board around three point
fifteen this morning in order to adopt the rule to
bring up this final vote so we should see this
officially passed in the next few hours and finally getting
to the President's desk in time for that Independence Day deadline.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
So we do expect it to pass then because I
think as it sits now, Republicans have a slim majority
in the House to twenty to two hundred and twelve Democrats,
right right right, They.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Can only afford to lose three House seats or three
Republicans on this vote. But now it looks like it's
going to get through. A lot of these members who
had issues, they didn't like the changes the Senate made.
They wanted to go back to the White House and say,
you know, what can we do to sort of make
this better Because they didn't change the bill to go
back to the Senate again, that wasn't in the cards.
But they can say, hey, look you can take some

(01:41):
executive action, tweak something here, tweak something there, maybe you know,
not enforce some parts of it here. This is going
to kill me in my campaign, so maybe an air
Force one visit next October. Well, but that's how this
stuff worked. Sure, bridge in my I need a bridge
in my district. There's some construction money that's been tied

(02:01):
up in the Federal Highways Transportation Fund. So you know,
let's shake that money tree. You know, this is the bargain. Hey,
credit Makowski from Alaska. You know, she got stuff for Alaska.
And that's she was the last holdout to get it
to fifty to fifty in the Senate. And that's how
it passed because she was lobbying for her constituents.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, and that's that's politics. That's how this all works.
And by the way, I don't think this is a
it's a hard for They call it the fourth of
July deadline. That was just a preference by Trump. Right,
there's no deadline.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
You could go.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
We could go past the fourth of July and still
get this thing done. If it isn't, there's no vote today, right, there's.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
No fiscal cliff. We're not on the edge of a
government shutdown. We're not about to default. This is July
fourth is all self imposed to try to get this here.
But this is really going to be probably the only
piece of significant legislation passed by Congress this year. It's
a thousand pages long just under it. After the parliamentarian
got her hands on it in the Senate and cut

(02:56):
out some provisions, but it's it covers a lot, from
Medicaid to SNAP programs, to funding for the wall to
funding for deportations. There's a lot in there for Democrats
to hate, a lot for Republicans to love. And this
is probably going to be log within the next three
or four hours.