House Races Toward Final Vote on 'Big Beautiful Bill'; Trump Announces Vietnam Trade Deal
Republican leaders in the House are sprinting toward a Wednesday vote on the "One Big Beautiful Bill," determined to seize momentum from a hard-fought vote in the Senate. The bill narrowly passed the Senate with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance.President Donald Trump said the United States has struck a trade deal with Vietnam, after months of negotiations, that imposes a 20% tariff rate on many imports from the Southeast Asian country.
The U.S. Senate passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at midday on July 1 after a “vote-a-rama” that began the previous day and continued through the night. The bill passed by a margin of 50–50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaker.President Donald Trump is traveling to Florida on Tuesday for the opening of a new illegal immigrant detention facility—dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” due to its remote location and the surrounding wildlife. The facility is located deep in the Everglades roughly 36 miles southwest of Miami.
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Senate Begins ‘Vote-a-Rama’ on Republican Megabill; Trump Says He Has Found a Buyer for TikTok
The Senate is set to begin a “vote-a-rama” series of votes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act after a weekend of bill reading and debates that wrapped up in the early hours of Monday morning. During the “vote-a-rama,” senators will undertake a marathon series of mandatory votes on amendments before the chamber can proceed to consideration of the Republican megabill itself.President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday that he has found a buyer for the China-owned short-video app TikTok, and that he will reveal the purchaser in around two weeks. Trump signed an executive order on June 19 extending the deadline for the sale of TikTok by another 90 days, giving the company until Sept. 17 to separate itself from its Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance—or to face a ban in the United States.
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Senate Inches Forward on Republican Megabill; Trump Vows Tariffs on China Over Trade Deficit
It was a tense night in the Senate as lawmakers raced to push President Donald Trump’s big beautiful bill across the finish line. Voting came to a standstill, lasting more than three hours.President Trump says China will be paying a lot of tariffs, adding the U.S. has a trillion-dollar deficit with the communist country.Despite recent setbacks, the IAEA now warns Iran could enrich uranium within months. We speak with an analyst.The IDF confirmed the elimination of a Hamas co-founder. Plus, a Monday court hearing for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was cancelled after President Trump condemned the proceeding. We have updates from the Middle East.
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Supreme Court Sides With Trump Admin., Limits Nationwide Injunctions; Trump Announces New US–China Trade Deal
The Supreme Court partially allowed President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order on Friday in a decision that said universal injunctions likely exceed courts’ authority. The 6–3 decision didn’t offer a final ruling on the constitutionality of Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship but instead focused on whether three nationwide injunctions blocking the policy could stand.President Donald Trump confirmed a new trade agreement with Beijing on Thursday, but didn't go into the details. Trump told reporters the United States was starting to open up China. A White House official later clarified that the two countries had reached "an additional understanding for a framework to implement the Geneva agreement," which the two countries worked out in May.