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The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk joined senators in staying up all night on Monday talking about President Donald Trump’s megabill. As senators went on a marathon voting session to meet a July 4 deadline to pass the measure, Musk spent the day on an X posting spree threatening any lawmaker who votes in favor of Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful …

CNN reports: After declaring he was stepping away from the political spotlight, Elon Musk got right back in it. As the Senate debated President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” on Monday before a final vote, Musk issued a stark warning via his social media platform X. “Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted …

Politico reports: The Senate’s “big, beautiful” vote-a-rama starts in just two hours — and nobody knows how it’s going to end. Senate Majority Leader John Thune can only lose one more vote with Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) already opposed. As Senate GOP leaders scramble to strike deals to keep the bill on track, House Republicans are …

CBC News reports: Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said Sunday that President Trump’s tax bill that’s nearing a final vote in the Senate will be a “political albatross” for Republicans, citing the cuts to social safety nets and its projected effect on the national debt. “I think many of my Republican friends know they’re walking the plank on this, …

Politico reports: Senate Republicans are moving forward, slowly, towards final passage of their sprawling tax and domestic policy bill early next week. But the most grueling part is still ahead. The Senate, in a late-night 51-49 vote, cleared a major hurdle when it moved onto general debate on the package. Democrats are expected to use every minute of their allotted …

The Hill reports: Tech billionaire Elon Musk again slammed President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” late on Saturday. “Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party,” Musk said in a post on the social platform X. In another post on the platform, Musk called the bill “utterly insane and destructive.” On Saturday, Senate Republicans narrowly voted to …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump on Saturday attacked Sen. Thom Tillis for opposing the party’s sweeping domestic policy bill, threatening to meet with potential primary challengers to the North Carolina Republican. Tillis, who faces re-election next year in a battleground state, was one of two Republicans, along with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, to vote against advancing the “big, …

ABC News reports: The Senate voted to advance the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” kicking off a lengthy process that GOP leadership hopes will end in its final passage. For much of the night, it was believed that Vice President JD Vance would be required to cast a tie-breaking vote. But at the last minute, Sen. Ron Johnson switched his no …