Will the US Congress pass Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'?

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  Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm David Harper and coming up on this edition,

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  Donald Trump's big beautiful bill could bring big changes to the US economy if it clears Congress.

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  We'll find out who's in favour of it, who's opposed and why.

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  Meanwhile, South Africa's budget has failed to make it into law twice.

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  Today we find out whether an agreement can be reached inside the coalition government there.

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  And trade union officials can often face persecution, but in Colombia it can cost you your life.

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  Jesus tells me someone tried to kill him on the 12th of July last year.

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  He was in a car and gunmen opened fire on him.

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  Jesus escaped uninjured, but he says one of his bodyguards,

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  and he travels with bodyguards all the time,

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  was hit in the chest with a bullet and they still haven't been able to extract the bullet from his chest.

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  More on that later.

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  Our reporter has been to the city of Cali to find out more.

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  Let's start, though, in the US, because in the next couple of days,

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  lawmakers there will vote on a big, beautiful bill.

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  I think it's the most important bill this country just about has ever done in terms of size and scope.

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  That's why we call it the great, big, beautiful deal.

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  I mean, it really is.

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  The bill is the biggest tax reduction in history, biggest regulation reduction in history.

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