{"id":155102,"date":"2025-06-29T05:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-big-beautiful-bill-clears-first-senate-hurdle-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:51:58","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-big-beautiful-bill-clears-first-senate-hurdle-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-presidents-big-beautiful-bill-clears-first-senate-hurdle-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president\u2019s \u2018big, beautiful bill\u2019 clears first Senate hurdle – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The key procedural hurdle was cleared hours after the debate opened \u2013 key US politics stories from 28 June
After a scramble in the Senate, Republicans voted on Saturday to advance Trump\u2019s signature \u201cbig, beautiful\u201d bill, with a 51-49 vote.
Republicans had been divided over the controversial bill, with some rejecting the proposal to cut welfare programmes in order to cover tax breaks, and others demanding deeper cuts.
The key procedural hurdle was cleared hours after the debate opened, with two Republicans, senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky, voting with Democrats to block consideration of the measure.
Meanwhile, the tech billionaire Elon Musk again voiced criticism of bill, describing it as \u201cutterly insane and destructive\u201d.
Here are the key stories at a glance:
The Republican-controlled US Senate advanced president Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill in a key procedural vote on Saturday, raising the odds that lawmakers will be able to pass the legislation in coming days.
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The billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk<\/a> on Saturday criticized the latest version of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s sprawling tax and spending bill, calling it \u201cutterly insane and destructive\u201d.
\u201cThe latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!\u201d Musk wrote<\/a> on Saturday.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Democratic former Minnesota state house speaker Melissa Hortman<\/a> was honored for her legislative accomplishments and her humanity during a funeral on Saturday that was attended by Joe Biden<\/a> and Kamala Harris<\/a>.
The former president and vice-president were joined by more than 1,000 other mourners.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Eric Trump has hinted that he or another of the Trump family could run for president when his father\u2019s second term in the White House comes to an end.
Eric, who is co-executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, said, the road to the White House \u201cwould be an easy one\u201d if he decided to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Police in southern California arrested a man suspected of posing as a federal immigration officer this week, the latest in a series of such arrests, as masked, plainclothes immigration agents are deployed nationwide to meet the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s mass deportation targets.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The son of an American citizen and military veteran \u2013 but who has no citizenship to any country \u2013 was deported from the US<\/a> to Jamaica in late May.
Jermaine Thomas\u2019s deportation, recently reported on by the Austin Chronicle<\/a>, is one of a growing number of immigration cases involving military service members\u2019 relatives or even veterans themselves who have been ensnared in the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation program.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Two men face spending their lives in prison<\/a> after a federal judge sentenced them for their roles in the deaths of 53 people found dead in an abandoned tractor-trailer in Texas in 2022.
The sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back \u201cdecades\u201d<\/a>, scientists say.
Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s secret list of top AI talent<\/a> to poach has the tech world atwitter.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 27 June 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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