2025-07-02
13 分钟The Senate passes Trump's big, beautiful tax and spending bill.
Now, can Speaker Mike Johnson help move it through the House?
Johnson really had been urging the Senate not to make a bunch of changes,
and they made a bunch of changes.
Plus, why your favorite snack makers are betting on smaller packaging.
and Big Tech and Hollywood face off over copyrighted material.
It's Tuesday, July 1st.
I'm Alex Osela for The Wall Street Journal.
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Republicans squeaked President Trump's tax and spending mega bill through the Senate today,
capping a long night of dealmaking to win over holdouts and ending with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President J.D.
Vance.
WSJ tax policy reporter Richard Rubin joins us from the Capitol.
So Richard, what is the bill that just passed?
How much actually changed?
Really, the big changes were designed to get the last vote they needed,
which was Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
And so there were a few things that Republicans did in order to sway her.
One,