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Senate Advances Big Beautiful Bill in Dramatic Saturday Night Vote
Breitbart ^ | 06/28/2025 | Bradley Jaye

Posted on 06/29/2025 7:36:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe

The Senate voted to proceed on President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill in a rare drama-packed Saturday night vote.

They key procedural vote on the motion to proceed is a significant victory for the President and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and clears the path for amendment votes to begin, likely late Monday night.

The bill contains many of Trump’s key campaign promises and addresses immigration and border security, energy, national security and defense, and taxes – notably extending the bulk of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and instituting no tax on tips and overtime.

The vote was 51 to 49. Vice President JD Vance led negotiations with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and a handful of conservative holdouts.

Vance arrived at the Capitol with the expectation his vote would be needed. Although his vote proved unnecessary, his role in negotiations on behalf of the White House ensured the bill advanced.

The budget reconciliation bill requires only a majority to advance, circumventing the Senate’s 60-vote requirement for most legislation but limiting the bill’s provisions to those primarily addressing spending and revenue.

Two Republican Senators voted with all 47 Democrats against moving forward.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) voted against moving forward over concerns with the bill’s Medicaid provisions’ impact on rural hospitals – claims which Breitbart News reported have been pushed by groups relying on talking points from radical-left groups.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bbb; trump
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1 posted on 06/29/2025 7:36:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Two Republican Senators voted with all 47 Democrats against moving forward.

Upyerass Dirtmen!

2 posted on 06/29/2025 7:41:19 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: SmokingJoe

A Congressional remake of The Longest Yard...


3 posted on 06/29/2025 7:42:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SmokingJoe; ROCKLOBSTER

I could slap that little turd rand paul.


4 posted on 06/29/2025 7:46:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SmokingJoe
What happened to the "no tax on social security"..

Angry Dads... Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons seek to know.

5 posted on 06/29/2025 7:47:18 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: SmokingJoe
The bill contains many of Trump’s key campaign promises and addresses immigration and border security, energy, national security and defense, and taxes – notably extending the bulk of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and instituting no tax on tips and overtime.

Did they drop the elimination of the tax on SS benefits?

6 posted on 06/29/2025 7:53:16 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: spokeshave
Angry Dads... Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons seek to know.

From what I understand (don't know for sure if this is correct or not) because they are moving this through under the reconciliation rules of the Senate, they can not touch the existing social security rules that make those payments taxable. Instead, they give seniors an extra tax credit that will off set the social security tax. That is my understanding anyway. Someone with more knowledge please correct me if I'm wrong.

7 posted on 06/29/2025 7:58:05 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: V_TWIN

He had to choose between being a part of the most transformational administration in history and being an obstructionist know-it-all prick.

He chose poorly.


8 posted on 06/29/2025 7:58:40 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: bigbob
Truth.

He also totally jumped the shark, forever.

9 posted on 06/29/2025 8:01:05 AM PDT by OKSooner (Always carry. Even if all you can handle is a .22, carry it. You might be surprised.)
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I don't like how they cram everything into one budget bill, just so they can get some things passed. But that is our reality.

If Tillis and Paul want to grandstand on some principle, go ahead, that's typically what Senators do. But at crunch time, they need to get in line.

10 posted on 06/29/2025 8:05:04 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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Plenty of meaningless scenery chewing to come but the BBB will pass.


11 posted on 06/29/2025 8:07:41 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: OKSooner

In several ways light is shining on congress... light exposes.


12 posted on 06/29/2025 8:07:47 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: bigbob

He’s got a habit of not going along with the majority just to bexa pain in the ass.

If he needs attention that bad he should get it some other way.

I’m really over his little childish antics.


13 posted on 06/29/2025 8:09:36 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: bigbob
By coincidence, just last night saw the Indy Jones movie. What a great movie!


14 posted on 06/29/2025 8:09:48 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: SmokingJoe

I don’t blame Thillis for voting against it, at least not much. Our big, beautiful pig is now wearing both lipstick and nail polish, so he has some cover.


15 posted on 06/29/2025 8:11:38 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: bigbob

“He chose poorly.”

The choice was not entirely surprising. After all, those adjectives describing the alternative choice DO apply.

Just another John McCain kind of “maverick”.


16 posted on 06/29/2025 8:12:49 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Divergence is not at all the same thing as diversity.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Where was Chuck U when Nancy said “We must pass The Bill to see what is in it.” ?


17 posted on 06/29/2025 8:13:28 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

rand paul doesn’t know how to get in line.

He must see himself as some sort of “firebrand” senator....everybody else sees him as what he really is.....a little shit that won’t cooperate for the good of the country.

I’m guessing he didn’t like to get his pants dirty in elementary school.


18 posted on 06/29/2025 8:13:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Thune has to get a lot of credit for threading the needle; ditto Johnson in the House. JD Vance also played a role.

We’ve been years without a budget, operating the government through continuing resolution.

This budget, were it to pass, wouldn’t do much to balance the budget (the deficit will continue at about 6% of GDP). Hence, the more conservative Republicans either opposed or reluctantly supported it.

To fetch the votes needed to pass, given that zero Democrat votes were ever going to be got, lots of moderate Republican votes had to be got via old-fashioned pork barrel spending. It was like watching sausage being made.

On the other hand, restoring the budget process is necessary to start to get control of the deficit. Possibly, we can grow our way out of the deficit (like we eventually did toward the end of the 20th Century).


19 posted on 06/29/2025 8:14:00 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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The no tax on tips and overtime I believe expire in a few yrs.

The debt ceiling raise is the only provision of the bill that will last, and it will grow, of course.


20 posted on 06/29/2025 8:14:06 AM PDT by Owen
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