New York Times: “After more than 24 hours in session and a climactic vote at the strike of noon, most senators have quickly fled the Capitol. Their cars were idling on the plaza to ferry them to the airport in time to make Fourth of July parades back home and other travel.”

“The mass departure means there is no way the Senate could be convened again to vote on the bill this week if the House decides to make changes. In congressional parlance, passing legislation, sending it to the other chamber and skedaddling is known as jamming.”

Annie Lowrey: “The ‘big, beautiful bill’ finances largesse for the rich with austerity for the poor. It will kill tens of thousands of Americans and impoverish millions more to grant million-dollar tax cuts to Trump and other billionaires. It will gut the Affordable Care Act to enrich corporations that move jobs overseas. And it will do nothing to solve the cost-of-living crisis that propelled Trump into office.”

The U.S. Senate voted to pass President Trump’s domestic agenda 51 to 50 after a 26-hour vote-a-rama and frenzied last-minute negotiations, Punchbowl News reports.

Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Rand Paul (R-KY) opposed the bill, forcing Vice President J.D. Vance to cast the tie-breaking vote.

The bill now goes back to the House, where Republicans are already complaining about the Senate’s changes.

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Elon Musk warned that the Republican tax and spending bill under consideration by the U.S. Senate would enable “abuses of power” by the president. 

New York Times: “Some potential monumental news: Democrats say they successfully struck ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ as the formal name of the legislation by raising a point of order against what they consider a farcial and inappropriate title.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters that he thinks he has a deal with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” The Hill reports.

Asked if he had a deal as he walked from the Senate floor to his office, Thune replied: “I believe we do.”

He added: “But, like I said, I’m of Scandinavian heritage, so I’m always a bit of a realist. We’ll see what happens.”

New York Times: “Republican leaders have said senators should plan to be in their seats soon for voting to resume. Asking senators to take their seats usually occurs only on big votes like the one upcoming.”

Andrew Egger: “There have been three driving forces behind this bill. The first has been the ‘pass something or everyone’s taxes go up’ pressure created by the soon-to-expire 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The second has been President Donald Trump, who took a shine to the simplicity of slamming together a bunch of things he wanted done into a single package and who has imposed an artificial deadline of July 4. And the third is the Senate’s utterly dysfunctional procedures surrounding the filibuster, which make it basically impossible for majorities to pass new laws unless they get significant minority buy-in or glue them together into a ‘budget reconciliation’ package that doesn’t need 60 votes.”

“What we’re left with is a bill that’s bigger than big and anything but beautiful. Although maybe it overstates it to even say we have a bill. As the Senate barrels to a vote (we think) they’re still crafting the actual text of the legislation. There will be no hearings, no comprehensive analysis, and certainly not enough time to read the thing. Whether it will pass now depends on whether Senate leaders can find a sweetener good enough to woo one of the four remaining Republican holdouts. Would any other institution operate in this way?”

New York Times: “Voting in the Senate has ground to a halt for now, and GOP leaders are using a procedural tool — in this case a quorum call — to buy time for negotiations to continue. They are focused on winning the vote of Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.”