Senate begins debate on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

After a dramatic procedural vote late Saturday, the bill went to the floor.

Last Updated: June 29, 2025, 9:32 PM EDT

The Senate on Sunday afternoon began debate on President Donald Trump's megabill for his second term priorities after a dramatic procedural vote late Saturday night.

There is up to 20 hours of debate but while Democrats will use their allotted 10 hours, Republicans are expected not to. After that, likely in the early hours of Monday, senators will begin offering amendments to the bill.

Overnight Sunday, the Senate parliamentarian ruled more provisions out of order with the reconciliation process Republicans are using to pass the bill with a simple majority. If it passes in the Senate, the bill goes back to the House to consider changes the Senate made to the House's version of the bill, which passed by one vote.

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Jun 29, 2025, 2:24 PM EDT

CBO estimates ‘big, beautiful bill’ would add $3.3T to debt

The Senate's version of Trump's mega policy bill would add $3.3 trillion to the nation's debt over the next decade, according to the latest estimates released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Sunday.

This latest estimate is roughly $1 trillion higher than the CBO’s score of the House's version of the bill, which it estimated would add roughly $2.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.

A copy of President Donald Trump's 940-page spending and tax bill is seen on a desk as clerks continue reading the bill aloud in the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 29, 2025.
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Additionally, the Senate's bill could also result in even more people losing their health care due to the cuts to Medicaid and additional cuts to the Affordable Care Act -- with roughly 11.8 million people potentially on the chopping block. The CBO estimated 10.8 million people could become uninsured over the next decade in its score of the House version of the bill.

The Senate's bill is expected to make deeper cuts to Medicaid due to new work requirements, but also due to steeper taxes that will be placed on some health care providers and hospitals to help cover the cost of Medicaid, known as the provider tax.

Republicans have argued in recent weeks that the CBO analysis is not accurate and they have been highly critical of the nonpartisan office.

-ABC News’ Mariam Khan

Jun 29, 2025, 1:18 PM EDT

Trump once thought Iran would join Abraham Accords

Trump suggested that over the past week more countries have signaled that they would like to join the Abraham Accords and at one point he thought Iran would.

“Yes, so we have some really great countries in there right now, and I think we're going to start loading them up because Iran was the primary problem," Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” "I actually thought Iran would, I actually, we had a period of time where I thought Iran would join the Abraham Accords along with everybody else, and frankly they would have been better off than where they are right now.”

PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner  and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe at the White House in Washington, June 27, 2025.
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic Republic of the Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, June 27, 2025.
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When pressed if Syria would join, Trump mentioned that his administration eased sanctions on Syria in recent weeks, specifically following the fall of the Assad regime in December, and left the door open.

“Well, I don't know, but I did take off the sanctions at the request of some of the other countries in the area that are friends of ours. I took off the sanction on Syria to give them a chance at, you know, the sanctions are biting. They're very strong. And we have sanctions on Iran, too,” he said.

-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh

Jun 29, 2025, 11:53 AM EDT

Trump says B-2 pilots that struck Iran will visit White House

Trump said Sunday that B-2 pilots from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri who flew the mission against Iran are expected to visit the White House.

Asked during a sit-down interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” host Maria Bartiromo asked the president, “Are you going to do something for them?”

A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit takes off to support Operation Midnight Hammer at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, June 2025.
509th Bomb Wing/USAF

“Yes, they're going to come to the White House,” Trump said. But what you said is right --these people flew 36 hours in a small space, a big plane, but a small spaces, mostly occupied by bombs, and they flew so brilliantly.”

“And they hit a target the size of this circle. They, a little target, they say half the size of a refrigerator door from 50,000 feet up in the air. Going at a rapid speed, because they're going very fast when they're over a pretty rough territory. And they hit it every single time. And then they knocked out two other sites aside from that,” Trump said.

-ABC News’ Kelsey Walsh

Jun 29, 2025, 6:52 AM EDT

Trump takes victory lap after Senate 'One Big Beautiful Bill' vote

President Donald Trump celebrated the Senate's advancement of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and acknowledged earlier holdouts -- Sens. Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Cynthia Lummis -- for casting their votes in favor of the bill in social media posts early Sunday.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2025.
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"Tonight, we saw a GREAT VICTORY in the Senate with the 'GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,' but, it wouldn't have happened without the Fantastic Work of Senator Rick Scott, Senator Mike Lee, Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Cynthia Lummis," Trump wrote.

"They, along with all of the other Republican Patriots who voted for the Bill, are people who genuinely love our Country!" he added.

In a second post, Trump wrote, "VERY PROUD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TONIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!"

In a previous post late on Saturday night, Trump urged the Republican Party to unite and expressed frustration over "grandstanders."

"Republicans must remember that they are fighting against a very evil, corrupt and, in many ways, incompetent (Policywise!) group of people, who would rather see our Country "go down in flames" than do the right thing and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote, suggesting that Democrats are more united.

"The one thing they do have is an ability to stick together, and vote as one group (They don't have GRANDSTANDERS!)," he continued.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

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