June 30, 2025 - Senate inches toward a vote on Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill

Our live coverage of President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill has ended for the day. Follow the latest updates or read through the posts below.

Senators were advised late Monday night of at least 10 more votes in the “vote-a-rama,” indicating the chamber still has a long way to go before they get to a vote on final passage.

This is not necessarily the final 10 votes, either, this is just what has been noticed as of now. There are expected to be further votes after these wrap prior to a final vote.

A pared-back measure to strip Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood will remain in President Donald Trump’s sweeping policy bill, following a green light from the Senate parliamentarian.

The decision came after GOP lawmakers tweaked the bill language late Friday, narrowing the proposed block on funding from a decade to just one year. The move was aimed at sidestepping procedural hurdles under the Senate’s Byrd Rule.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated previously that the 10-year ban would cost taxpayers $52 million over a decade. Planned Parenthood has warned the measure could drive hundreds of clinics — which also provide birth control, STI testing, cancer screenings and gynecological care — to close. Roughly 90% of those clinics are in states where abortion remains legal, Planned Parenthood said.

An image from the Senate floor on Monday.

As the Senate continues its marathon voting session known as a vote-a-rama, the most popular question in the halls of the Capitol tonight is when will this end? Are we close to a final vote on President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda bill?

The short answer: Nearly 12 hours in and no one really knows right now when this will end.

Lawmakers are now on their 20th amendment vote with no clear end in sight. Several of the most watched amendments on the GOP side have yet to come up for a vote as Republican leaders are still working with members to tweak what the final version of this bill will even look like. Meanwhile, Democrats don’t appear anywhere close to exhausting their messaging against the bill.

Behind the scenes, GOP leaders are carefully choreographing this to ensure they aren’t surprised by any changes to the bill. The challenge for Majority Leader John Thune is he has to anticipate five steps ahead at all moments in order to ensure his delicate coalition remains intact.

The other hangups: Far less intriguing than closed-door horse trading is the reality that there are still technical issues being worked out on this bill in real time.

The Senate parliamentarian is still reviewing and working with senators to ensure new provisions added to the bill comply with Senate budget rules. Lawmakers are also waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to score some of these provisions as the total cost of the bill is a top concern for fiscal hawks.

In short, the reason this is all taking so long is that there are still real, active discussions, negotiations and legislative sausage making all taking place in real time as the voting unfolds.

CNN’s Bill Weir explains why your household energy bill will be higher over the next decade if the GOP passes Trump’s new tax bill. Red states like Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas could see up to 18% higher energy costs by 2035, according to think tank Energy Innovation.

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As the Senate debated President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” today before a final vote, tech billionaire Elon Musk issued a stark warning via his social media platform X.

A few hours later he went further, declaring on X that if the “insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day.”

For weeks, Musk has railed against Trump’s policy bill, leading to a very public and ugly fight with Trump earlier this month.

What is Musk’s position: Musk has argued that the Republican policy bill will increase the debt, calling it “debt slavery.”

The Senate bill would add nearly $3.3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate released Sunday. The Senate legislation costs more than the House-approved bill, which would add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.

CNN’s Tami Luhby contributed reporting.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin speaks with CNN's Lauren Fox on Monday.

GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin expressed confidence that Republicans will have the votes to pass President Donald Trump’s policy bill, though he acknowledged that negotiations are ongoing to get it over the finish line.

“We will put 51 votes on the floor. There’s obviously a lot of, you know, massaging, that’s going on, a lot of negotiating still happening, but we’re going to make it happen,” he told CNN.

The “vote-a-rama” has stretched past seven hours with the expectation that it will drag at least late into the night. Mullin said the process inspires unity within the party and “hardens you.”

“We come together as a team and it becomes skin versus shirts at some point, and so I don’t think for a second we won’t pass this,” he said.

Mullin has also been aiding in negotiations with his former GOP colleagues in the House, and admitted that House Speaker Mike Johnson is “concerned” about changes to Medicaid provisions in the Senate bill. However, Mullin expressed confidence the House will pass a bill by July 4.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer turns and walks away after speaking with reporters at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 30.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded more transparency from Republicans on changes being made to the bill meant to advance President Trump’s domestic policy agenda as they make the final push out of the Senate.

The Senate parliamentarian is still making rulings, and Republicans are “hiding from us all kinds of things,” he said.

Asked how and when the changes would be implemented, Schumer replied, “You’d have to ask Thune that,” referring to Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

Schumer would not say how many more amendments Democrats plan to force a vote on in the “vote-a-rama” series, but he added, “We need to show the American people in every way how bad this bill is for them.”

“You can see the Republicans are on the defensive. We’re on our front foot because we know the public is on our side. We know a lot of them — it’s not just Tillis — a whole lot of them are just embarrassed about this bill, uncomfortable about this bill, etc.,” he said, referring to Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.

Tillis on Saturday was one of only two Republicans who voted against advancing Trump’s sweeping agenda bill. Yesterday, he announced he would not seek reelection.

As the Senate GOP hurtles toward a major vote on its version of President Donald Trump’s agenda, Speaker Mike Johnson is confronting growing levels of consternation in his ranks about the final product, raising questions about that measure’s fate in the House.

Johnson will hold a call this afternoon with a group of more centrist-leaning lawmakers known as the Republican Main Street Caucus, who have been privately uneasy about the Senate’s package, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, is also expected to join the call, according to one of the sources familiar.

But the more moderate Republicans aren’t Johnson’s only math problem in the House. He must also win over House GOP hardliners like Texas Rep. Chip Roy, who have publicly complained the bill doesn’t go far enough on reducing the US deficit.

Timing details: If the Senate is able to successfully pass the measure sometime Monday night or early Tuesday morning, the House expects to take it up quickly. The first step of that process — sending the bill through the House Rules Committee — could happen as soon as midday Tuesday.

House Majority Leader Tom Emmer has instructed members to return in time for a vote to advance the measure — known as a rule vote — on Wednesday morning, according to another House GOP source. Johnson and his team hope to pass the package and deliver it to Trump’s desk sometime on Wednesday, though they acknowledge that timing could slip.

The domestic policy megabill being considered by the Senate today includes a massive amount of funding for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, allocating tens of billions of dollars toward border barriers and detention facilities and increasing the costs associated with legal immigration.

The Senate version of the bill allocates $46.5 billion toward the construction, installation and maintenance of border barriers and $45 billion toward facilities that detain immigrants over the next four years. That would make Immigration and Customs Enforcement the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency and far surpass its previous budgets.

It would be a crucial infusion of cash for the administration to accomplish its goal of arresting at least 3,000 immigrants per day. White House border czar Tom Homan previously told CNN the administration is almost maxed out on detention space, saying earlier this month, “We’re probably 95% or above.”

Trump on Tuesday is scheduled to visit Florida to tour the site where the state is building a new facility — which it refers to as “Alligator Alcatraz” — to help achieve that goal. The center will have a capacity of about 5,000 beds, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.

The Senate bill would also include $29.8 billion to hire, train and retain ICE personnel. About 7,000 people at ICE are focused on removal operations, and the White House says it hopes to hire an additional 10,000.

The bill would also increase or add new fees associated with applying for nonimmigrant visas, asylum status and work permits — a move that, immigrant advocates say, would keep relief out of reach for many immigrants in the country.

CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez contributed to this report.

The first vote taken by senators today dealt with a procedural argument over the so-called current policy baseline and how to calculate the costs of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

While it may seem dry, Republicans’ use of current policy baseline in their calculations will set a precedent allowing both parties to be much more generous when calculating costs of tax bills going forward.

Trump and some GOP leaders, including Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo, pushed the alternative “current policy baseline” scoring method, which appears to greatly minimizes the deficit impact of the bill because it would not include the cost of extending the expiring 2017 tax provisions.

The Congressional Budget Office, however, calculated the cost of the bill using its traditional scoring method, known as “current law baseline,” which assumed the expiring provisions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts lapse as scheduled at the end of the year.

It projected the Senate’s bill would also cost far more than the House-approved bill, adding nearly $3.3 trillion to the deficit over a decade.

The Senate version is costlier in large part because it contains bigger tax cuts, while shrinking some of the spending cuts and revenue raisers, said Marc Goldwein, senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a watchdog group.

For instance, the Senate bill would make permanent three corporate tax breaks that were part of the 2017 law and would lessen the cuts to the food stamp program.

“They expand the giveaways and shrink the takeaways,” Goldwein told CNN.

Using the current policy baseline, the Senate version would cost roughly $508 billion over the next decade, according to a separate CBO estimate released Saturday night.

A number of Republicans are closely watching any changes made to Medicaid provisions in the President Donald Trump’s megabill.

The Senate version of the megabill would leave 11.8 million more people without health insurance in 2034, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released over the weekend. That’s more than the 10.9 million more people projected to be left uninsured by the House-passed version of the bill.

Both chambers are calling for historic spending cuts to Medicaid, which provides coverage to more than 71 million low-income Americans, including children, senior citizens, people with disabilities and other adults. The package would also enact changes to the Affordable Care Act that are projected to reduce enrollment in the landmark health reform law that Trump and Republicans have long sought to dismantle.

But the Senate version calls for even deeper cuts to the Medicaid, leading to the larger estimate. These are some of the key differences in the Senate’s bill:

Sen. Lisa Murkowski arrives for a meeting with Senate Republicans in the US Capitol on June 28, in Washington, DC.

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats on several amendments affecting key provisions in President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill as a marathon vote series on the package gets underway in earnest in the Senate.

Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid have been major flashpoints within the Republican Party throughout the writing of this bill, and Senate Democrats are zeroing in on these pressure points in the “vote-a-rama,” forcing their GOP colleagues to declare positions on the record.

Murkowski, who GOP leadership had to work hard to convince to advance the bill over the weekend, has voted for Democratic amendments on the bill’s changes to SNAP and Medicaid, and to shore up support for rural hospitals.

So far, Maine Sen. Susan Collins has also broke with Republicans on two votes aimed at protecting rural hospitals.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said GOP Sen. Thom Tillis’ assertion that President Donald Trump’s policy bill betrays his promise to protect Medicaid is “just wrong.”

Tillis has railed against the bill’s effects on Medicaid in his state of North Carolina. He announced Sunday that he would not seek reelection, a day after Trump publicly threatened to support a primary challenger against the GOP senator.

As CNN previously reported, the Senate version of the bill would leave 11.8 million more people without health insurance in 2034, according to a nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis released over the weekend.

Leavitt also shot down concerns from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers about rural hospitals closing, saying, “that claim is simply not true.”

Leavitt expressed confidence that the bill would be on Trump’s desk by the Fourth of July despite a delayed Senate vote that, if successful, will give limited time for the House to consider the amended legislation this week.

As the Senate continues its marathon voting session on amendments on President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, CNN’s Daniel Dale has fact-checked the president’s claims about the legislation.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 30.

President Donald Trump is in touch with congressional leaders by phone, but there was no meeting at the White House earlier today with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson, a White House official said.

Earlier today, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump was meeting with Thune and Johnson at the White House today to discuss Republicans’ efforts to pass his sweeping tax cuts and spending package. She added that she believed the sit-down had already occurred.

“The president is very well aware that this bill needs to not only pass out of the Senate, but it needs to go back to the House, and we need the full weight of the Republican conference to get behind this bill — and we expect them to, and we are confident that they will,” Leavitt said at a White House briefing.

“The president has been working hand-in-hand with Senate Majority Leader Thune and … Mike Johnson, both of whom will be at the White House today to meet with the president yet again. I believe they were here this morning,” she added.

A spokesperson for Thune later said the GOP leader did not meet with the White House this morning, despite Leavitt suggesting otherwise.

This post has been updated with confirmation that Trump has been in touch with Thune and Johnson by phone.

Sen. Alex Padilla and Sen. John Fetterman depart following a vote in the US Capitol on June 27 in Washington, DC.

Senators are offering varying perspectives as the chamber continues its’ voting session on amendments for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” domestic policy bill.

Here’s what some are saying:

Windmills are seen in Mojave, California, in 2014.

Senate Republicans revealed an entirely new tax for renewable energy this weekend, in the latest version of a bill that could be passed as early as this afternoon.

The bill already stripped tax incentives for renewables by 2027 and gave developers stringent requirements to claim them.

The new tax would come at the worst possible time for the American power grid, experts and trade groups say, as demand for more electricity spikes due to new data centers for artificial intelligence coming online.

“This new tax is just a killer to the wind and solar industry,” said Ed Mills, a Washington policy analyst at Raymond James. “You went from taking away a positive for the industry to implementing a negative.”

The tax could change, as the Senate embarks on a marathon day of amendment votes today.

As it’s currently written, the Senate bill will threaten to upend a huge amount of power that was set to come online in the next decade. Wind, solar and long-term storage batteries make up the vast majority of new electricity added to the grid over the past three years. It also encompasses about 85% of what’s currently in the development pipeline, according to Ben King, an analyst at the non-partisan think tank Rhodium Group.

The weekend changes to the bill were blasted by renewables trade groups, who had been pushing lawmakers for a more generous tax credit phaseout timeline for wind and solar projects.

Read more about the last-minute add to the bill.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters during a press conference following a weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 24.

Two of President Donald Trump’s top economic officials said today that trade deals are coming soon.

But one of them said the administration is more focused on passing the president’s signature tax and spending legislation, known as the “big, beautiful bill.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview with Bloomberg that there will likely be a “flurry of trade deals” in the week leading up to July 9, the deadline Trump set for countries to negotiate trade agreements with the administration. Trump delayed the massive tariff hikes he unveiled for dozens of countries in early April until then to allow for negotiations. So far, the administration has had successful trade talks with only two nations: the United Kingdom and China.

Bessent said it’s possible that some of those stiff tariffs are reinstated if trade talks are not progressing.

Kevin Hassett, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, similarly said in an interview with CNBC that by July 9 there will be “a whole number of deals, double-digit deals.” But he suggested the administration is prioritizing Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill. After a weekend of negotiations, the Senate is holding a marathon voting session on Trump’s megabill.

Sen. Thom Tillis is seen in an elevator before a procedural vote on a budget reconciliation bill with President Trump's legislative agenda at the US Capitol on June 28.

President Donald Trump’s push to pass his sweeping agenda in the Senate faces uncertainty as GOP leaders barrel toward a critical vote.

Over the weekend, a warning shot came from Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who was one of two senators to oppose advancing Trump’s bill in a key vote Saturday night, along with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. Tillis, who was concerned over cuts to Medicaid, announced the following day that he would not seek reelection. And in a fiery floor speech, he said he would withhold his vote “until it’s demonstrated to me that we’ve done our homework.”

Already, outspoken fiscal hawk Paul said Sunday he is planning to vote against the bill. “The bill increases the debt ceiling by $5 trillion,” the Kentucky senator said. “What does that mean? That is an admission that they know they aren’t controlling the deficit. … That doesn’t sound conservative to me, and that’s why I’m a no.”

And Tillis is not the only Republican who opposes proposed cuts to Medicaid. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have raised concerns, with Collins saying, “If the bill is not further changed, I would be leaning against the bill.”

Collins, a key centrist vote, said Saturday she would vote in favor of the bill in the initial procedural vote, but was clear her support for the initial vote did not determine whether she would back the final version.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley — who had raised concerns about the package’s Medicaid provisions, which he feared would shutter rural hospitals — said Saturday he would back the bill in a major win for party leaders.

Ahead of Saturday’s procedural vote, Vice President JD Vance traveled to the Capitol to help Senate Majority Leader John Thune convince remaining holdouts to allow debate on the bill. The vice president could be needed again, acting in his capacity as president of the Senate, to break any tie on a final passage vote.

Thune and Vance huddled in the leadership suite with Sens. Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, Cynthia Lummis and Rick Scott ahead of Saturday’s vote, before all four eventually voted to advance the measure. These senators will all be ones to watch.