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Last Updated: July 6, 2025, 11:42 PM EDT

After days of Republican drama, the House on Thursday passed President Donald Trump's sweeping tax cut and spending bill.

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.

Jul 01, 2025, 3:09 AM EDT

Collins amendment on rural hospital funding fails

Many Democratic senators voted with the majority of their Republican colleagues to block an amendment by Sen. Susan Collins that aimed to increase the amount of money in the rural hospital relief fund.

Republicans created the fund to address concerns from moderates that the cuts to Medicaid in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" would negatively impact rural hospitals in some states.

Senator Susan Collins is pictured on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2025.
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Collins' amendment would have increased the tax rate on individuals earning over $25 million and couples earning over $50 million in order to pay for a $25 billion bump to the rural hospital fund. It failed by a vote of 22-78.

"When these facilities close their doors the people they serve are often left behind without access to health care," Collins said. "This amendment would help keep them open and caring for those who live in these rural communities. The additional funding is fully offset through a modest increase in the top marginal tax rate."

Democrats voted against the bill arguing that it is a "Band-Aid on an amputation."

"It provides just a tiny fraction of the nearly $1 trillion in cuts the bill makes to Medicaid," said Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

"It would be much more logical to simply not cut $1 trillion from Medicaid in the first place," Wyden said. "This amendment doubles down on that flawed plan that's going to set rural hospitals adrift."

The rejection of the amendment puts Collins' already tenuous vote on final passage in further danger. She signaled over the weekend she may not support the bill if her concerns about rural hospitals weren't addressed during the amendment process.

If Collins casts a vote against the package, it could spell problems for the GOP leadership which can only afford to lose three Republicans when the goes to a final vote.

Sens. Thom Tillis and Rand Paul are already expected to vote against the bill. Collins is part of a group of several Republican senators whose support is still uncertain as of the early hours of Tuesday morning.

-ABC News Allison Pecorin and Isabella Murray

Jun 30, 2025, 9:36 PM EDT

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.

PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader John Thune walks towards the Senate floor at the Capitol, June 30, 2025.
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

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