AMAZING work from Ramsey Touchberry and Zachary Halaschak covering the Senate’s hours-long deliberation on the One Big Beautiful Bill Now it kicks back to the House to Lauren Green & myself, where there are over two dozen GOP holdouts on the legislation. July 4 deadline still the goal

MURKOWSKI tells reporters she wants the House to send OBBB back to the Senate to continue the work. She voted for it. "My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we're not there yet," Murkowski said

NOTABLE CHANGES in the Senate-passed version of the reconciliation bill: - New excise tax on solar/wind sourcing from China is OUT - Rep. KELLY's bill for REITs is IN -- congress.gov/bill/119th-con… - New tax credit for contributions to nonprofits granting elementary/secondary

Ralph Norman tells reporters he’s a NO on everything: the rule in committee, the rule on the floor, and the bill for total passage “What we ought to do is take exactly the House bill that we sent over and go home and say ‘when you're serious, come back.’” That's my message.

EXCLUSIVE w/ Ramsey Touchberry: How Thune and Trump got behind ‘one big, beautiful bill’ washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/34…

Amendments to the OBBB are rolling in for the House Rules Committee to consider. Of the 364 amendments on the website so far (there's expected to be way more), nine of them are from Republicans Most notable: Ogles - Strike the text and replace it with the House version Self -

More from our Thune interview & how he found harmony w/Trump on OBBB. On unexpected casualty of Tillis dropping reelex, Thune's message to him & others who feud w/Trump—"This stuff comes & goes. It ebbs & flows" (Also Thune does a decent Trump impression) washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/34…

NOW: House voting on the main amendment to the rule. It's an opportunity for R opponents to kick this back to committee/block the Sen OBBBA. Not their last one. If this passes, the main vote on the rule is next. Again, think of the rule as the doorway to voting on the bill.

The amendment to the rule has been open for over 45 min (floor has been open well over an hour and half since rule debate) Johnson still not on the floor, HFC members still huddling

Johnson just left the Capitol to “pick up his wife,” saying “we’re going to get there tonight” and that he’s feeling “very positive” about progress. When I asked if the holdouts are coming around he said, “we're working through everybody's problems and talking them through it.”

Intern for Rep. Ron Estes killed in Northwest D.C. shooting rollcall.com/2025/07/02/int…

Here's where we're at re: big beautiful bill (1/3) 🔥: Fiscal hawks still holding out on the bill. HFC members are encouraging leaders to postpone a rule vote tonight and come back in the morning. Roy said he won't vote on the rule tonight (could mean he'd abstain or vote no)

The fate of Trump’s massive tax package remained in limbo as Republicans' plans for a 9 a.m. procedural vote stretched past midnight, once again dragging lawmakers into an overnight voting session for the second time this week Where things are at: deseret.com/politics/2025/…

Burchett said “we’re very close” but didn’t say how he’d vote. The others were good natured but declined to talk Should we take a nap? Burchett: “No”

NEWS: Johnson says they have the votes to advance the key procedural measure AND for final passage of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”

Speaker JOHNSON: "We have the votes." Johnson predicts a final vote around 8 am

After hours being open, the rule vote on the big beautiful bill just passed, 219-213

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BREAKING: After over 24 hours of debate, negotiations, record-breaking votes and "magic minutes," the House has finally passed the "big beautiful bill." Massie and Fitzpatrick were the two GOP "no" votes. w/ Zachary Halaschak & Lauren Green washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/346…

it's done! Congrats to Washington Examiner congressional crew for all their hard work and sleepless nights ! Rachel Schilke Lauren Green Hailey Bullis Ramsey Touchberry David Sivak Samantha-Jo Roth Zachary Halaschak washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/346…