The Latest: Senate votes on Trump’s big bill stretches through the night
The Senate slogged through a tense overnight session that has now dragged into Tuesday morning with Republican leaders searching for procedures to secure patronage for President Donald Trump s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts while fending off proposed amendments mostly from Democrats trying to defeat the package An endgame appeared to be taking shape Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota spent the night reaching for last-minute agreements between those in his party worried the bill s reductions to Medicaid will leave millions without care and his majority of conservative flank which wants even steeper cuts to hold down deficits ballooning with the tax cuts It s a pivotal moment for the Republicans who have control of Congress and are racing to wrap up work with just days to go before Trump s self-imposed July deadline The -page One Big Beautiful Bill Act as it s formally titled has consumed Congress as its shared priority with the president Here s the latest Trump-Musk feud is heating up again and Tesla shares are tanking The war of words between billionaire Elon Musk and President Trump over the big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts is heating up again with Musk claiming he may form a new political party The resumption of hostilities between Trump and Musk also the CEO of SpaceX is constantly bad news for investors in Musk s companies Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives says the spat is now a soap opera and warned investors of prospective damage ahead Shares of Tesla have already tumbled this year as sales erode amid a backlash against Musk and his association with the Trump They fell another at the opening bell Tuesday Read more about the feud between Trump and Musk CISA Pro-Iranian hackers threaten to release material stolen from Trump insiders Hackers supporting Iran have threatened to release emails supposedly stolen from people connected to President Trump according to federal administration who vowed to track down the hackers Marci McCarthy a spokesperson for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Measure Agency called the threat a smear campaign intended to discredit Trump and the U S establishment following U S strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities The threat was first informed Monday by Reuters Following the U S strikes pro-Iranian hackers attacked U S banks ability companies and defense contractors but have not caused any substantial disruptions Administrators say the threat of attacks continues despite a ceasefire between Iran and Israel Trump stumbles climbing the stairs to Air Force One He was boarding the plane for a flight to Florida to attend the opening of a new detention center for people who are in the country illegally when he stumbled according to a photographer watching from the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews It s the second time in current weeks that the Republican president has stumbled on the airplane stairs He and other Republicans often poked fun at Democrat Joe Biden s stumbles and Trump did so in a latest interview with Fox Business Speaking of foreign leaders Trump noted They respect America again They laughed at us They thought we were a joke You had a president that kept falling down stairs and falling on stages I truly don t know what s going to happen Required Tuesday morning if Senate Republicans were close to passing Trump s big bill Sen Susan Collins a key Republican vote commented I truly don t know what s going to happen I just canceled my third flight Collins stated The Associated Press I m trying to rework my schedule Solicited if she ll patronage the bill Collins stated she continues to have a lot of serious reservations about the bill Local personnel prepare for Trump s arrival in the Florida Everglades They were standing by the entrance of the airport in a remote stretch of the Everglades in Ochopee Florida where Trump is expected to tour a new migrant detention site Media vans and other vehicles were parked along the highway lined by cypress trees as they waited for the president s arrival All eyes on Alaska s Sen Lisa Murkowski It s been hours since the Senate began voting on Trump s major bill much of that time spent rejecting Democratic amendments as Republicans work privately to secure the necessary votes to pass it With a - majority Republicans can afford to lose only three votes Vice President JD Vance holds the power to break a tie All eyes are on Murkowski a Republican who s emerged as the pivotal swing vote in the chamber On Tuesday morning she spent over an hour in deep conversation with fellow Republicans on the Senate floor as speculation swirled about how she might vote How several Republicans are looking to amend Trump s big bill Sen Susan Collins of Maine had proposed bolstering the billion proposed rural hospital fund to billion offset with a higher tax rate on those earning more than million a year but her amendment failed And Alaska Sen Lisa Murkowski tried to secure provisions to spare people in her state from a few food stamp cuts which appeared to be accepted while also working to beef up federal reimbursements to hospitals in Alaska and others states that failed to comply with parliamentary rules Conservative Senate Republicans insisting on a vote on their plan for robustness care cuts including Rick Scott of Florida Mike Lee of Utah Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming filed into Senate Leader John Thune s office for a near-midnight meeting Trump says New Yorkers would be crazy to elect Zohran Mamdani as mayor Trump called the Democrat a communist and explained the last thing we need is a communist Mamdani claimed achievement over former Democratic New York Gov Andrew Cuomo on balloting night last week in the Democratic mayoral primary Final results will be revealed Tuesday The -year-old democratic socialist and New York state assemblyman would be the city s first Muslim mayor and its first of Indian American descent if elected The Republican president who grew up in New York also mentioned Mamdani s campaign promise to open government-run grocery stores Trump reported that if New Yorkers elect Mamdani as the next mayor I think they re crazy Trump has advice on running away from alligators The president is visiting a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades that s been nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz While leaving the White House a reporter solicited Trump if the idea was for any escaping immigrants to get attacked by wildlife I guess that s the concept he announced This is not a nice business Then Trump joked that we re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison Don t run in a straight line Run like this and he moved his hand in a zigzag motion And you know what Your chances go up about Trump responds to Elon Musk s criticism of tax cut and spending bill Trump noted the billionaire could lose a lot more than the electrical carriage subsidies that would be eliminated if the measure becomes law We might have to put DOGE on Elon Trump narrated reporters as he left the White House for a trip to Florida DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon DOGE is the Department of Administration Efficiency Trump put Musk in charge of DOGE to cut administration spending Musk owns an electric car company and a space company and has lucrative federal establishment contracts Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states The proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the Senate on Tuesday thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Trump s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts The Senate voted - to strike the AI provision from the ordinance after weeks of criticism from both Republican and Democratic governors and state authorities Originally proposed as a -year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI lawmakers later tied it to federal funding so that only states that backed off on AI regulations would be able to get subsidies for broadband internet or AI infrastructure Read more about the proposal on AI regulation Senate vote-o-rama for Trump s big bill already among longest-running in modern times The all-night session has been grinding on for nearly hours having started at roughly a m on Monday Senators have voted on more than three dozen amendments so far More voting is likely The marathon voting session is part of the cumbersome process Republicans are using to try and pass the bill with a simple majority Republicans are letting the process drag on as they try to lock up last-minute agreements to push the bill to passage For now the Senate floor is at a standstill Source
