"It’s go time in the Senate for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
After months of negotiations, Senate Republicans are gearing up for a potential vote next week on Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill. It will be a major test for Republican Leader John Thune and Trump’s own hold on the upper chamber that aides say will be cast as a binary choice for the rank-and-file: you either are with the president or you aren’t.
Thune has predicted the Senate could begin consideration on the bill as early as the middle of next week. That would mean a massive sprint starting this weekend to draft final text, whip votes and iron out a series of major sticking points that will satisfy holdouts – without pushing the bill in such a different direction that it stalls out in the House of Representatives where it passed by a single vote.
The bottom line is next week is crunch time and all the hard decisions that have been punted will need to be made in the next several days. "
Lauren Fox and Sarah Ferris report for CNN June 21, 2025.
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"The Many Ugly Polls On Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’" (CNN)
"Donald Trump Calls Green Tax Credits in 'Big Beautiful Bill' a 'Scam'" (Newsweek)
"Parliamentarian Rules Against IRA, Permitting Provisions In Megabill" (E&E News)
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