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# Senate Narrowly Passes Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ Sending It Back to House

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## Video: Senate Narrowly Passes Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ Sending It Back to House

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_Published 2025-07-01. A bleary-eyed Lisa Murkowski exited the Republican whip’s office early Tuesday morning with a coffee in hand, after more than 24 straight hours of backroom negotiations over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill. “It’s in the hands of the people that operate the copy machine,” the Alaska Senator quipped, signaling that she planned to flip her vote and deliver the final commitment GOP leaders needed to secure passage._


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## Transcript

On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. The Senate being evenly divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative. The bill, as amended, is passed.

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