Trump helped Speaker Mike Johnson pressure GOP holdouts into flipping their no votes to allow the measure to go forward in time to meet the president's self-imposed July Fourth deadline.
Trump announces new fragrance called 'Victory 45-47'
President Donald Trump announced a new fragrance on his social media platform on Monday evening called "Victory 45-47."
"Trump Fragrances are here. They’re called 'Victory 45-47' because they’re all about Winning, Strength, and Success," Trump wrote on social media.
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, June 27, 2025.
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Trump's fragrance collection includes cologne for men and perfume for women. They each cost $249.
In December, as president-elect, Trump launched the "Fight! Fight! Fight!" fragrance collection on social media. At the time, the president stated it represented "winning" as well.
The "Fight! Fight! Fight!" fragrance costs $199.
The original 'Victory' cologne and perfume are currently out of stock.
According to a financial disclosure report released in June, Trump made $2.5 million from Trump sneakers and fragrances.
-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh
Jun 30, 2025, 9:24 PM EDT
Fate of Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' remains uncertain as vote-a-rama hits nearly 12 hours
Nearly 12 hours into the vote-a-rama, all indications so far are that the Senate won’t be wrapping up anytime soon.
Democrats are continuing to offer amendment after amendment on the floor. The Senate is presently taking its 20th vote related to the bill, and right now, the floor appears stalled.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune walks towards the Senate floor at the Capitol, June 30, 2025. Republican leaders are pushing to get President Donald Trump's "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" Act through Congress and to his desk before the July 4 Independence Day holiday.
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Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he thinks Republicans are "stalling."
"They don't have a bill. They’re delayed. They’re stalling. They’re cutting a lot of backroom deals," Schumer said of Senate Republicans. "They got a lot of members who were promised things that they may not be able to deliver on, and so they’re just stalling."
But behind the scenes, Republicans are strategizing. They huddled up for dinner for about an hour on Monday night. Majority Leader John Thune, entering the dinner, said they were trying to find a way to “stick the landing."
-ABC News' Isabella Murray and Allison Pecorin
Jun 30, 2025, 3:33 PM EDT
Democrats use early hours of vote-a-rama to highlight cuts to Medicaid, SNAP
Democrats are using Monday's "vote-a-rama" to highlight cuts they say President Trump's megabill will make to Medicaid, SNAP and rural hospitals -- and to hammer in the tax cuts they say this bill gives to the wealthiest Americans. So far, Republicans have defeated all Democratic efforts to modify or reconsider the bill.
The Senate voted down 47-53 an amendment led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that he said would have undone "the travesty that is at the core of the Republican bill."
"Their bill -- the so-called big beautiful bill, which is really a big, ugly betrayal -- cuts taxes for billionaires by taking away health care for millions of people. So what my amendment simply says -- if people's health care costs go up, the billionaire tax cuts vanish," Schumer said.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer arrives as Republicans begin a final push to advance President Donald Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts package, at the Capitol in Washington, June 30, 2025.
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Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, a Republican, argued against Schumer's amendment, saying he incorrectly framed what the bill does.
"The reality is, the reforms we are putting into place are to try to reign in control of wasteful and fraudulent and abusive spending that actually diverts resources away from the people who these programs really deserve to receive," Crapo said.
Democratic Sen. Ed Markey's effort to strip provisions that he said would negatively impact rural hospitals due to cuts to Medicaid also failed, but did receive the support of two Republicans: Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.
Sen. Ed Markey speaks on the floor of the Senate, June 30, 2025, in Washington.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture committee, argued that the SNAP provisions in the bill create "chaos for state budgets and hardship for families" and violate budget rules. Her motion was waived by Republicans.
"The largest unfunded mandate is on the back of kids and veterans and seniors and people with disabilities," Klobuchar said. "It's hurting local grocery stores, it's hurting our farmers and it's all done to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy. I say to our colleagues: vote for families over billionaires."
-ABC News' Allison Pecorin
Jun 30, 2025, 2:29 PM EDT
Trump sent note to Powell calling for lower interest rates: White House
President Trump sent a handwritten note to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell calling on him to lower interest rates, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during Monday's briefing.
Leavitt held up the note to reporters, which appeared to have been written by Trump using his signature black Sharpie.
"I bring to you original correspondence from the president of the United States to our Fed Chair, Jerome Powell," she said. The paper included a list of interest rates from other nations, including Japan and the United Kingdom, which are lower than that of the U.S.
A note written on top of the chart read, "Jerome, you are, as usual, 'too late.' You have cost the USA a fortune and continue to do so. You should lower the rate - by a lot! Hundreds of billions of dollars are being lost! No inflation."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a signed note from President Donald Trump to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, June 30, 2025.
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"I would remind the Fed chair, and I would remind the entire world that this is a president who was a businessman first, and he knows what he is doing," Leavitt said. "He has a proven economic formula that worked in his first term as president, and it is working again. The one problem that remains is high interest rates for the American people. The American people want to borrow money cheaply, and they should be able to do that. But unfortunately, we have interest rates that are still too high. So, the president sent this note to the Fed chair today."