Vance saves Trump's ‘big, beautiful’ bill in Senate

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

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  I'm Roger Herring and on this edition Donald Trump's huge tax and spending bill has been narrowly passed by the Senate but it now has to go back to the House of Representatives.

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  Opposition is concentrated on claims it will harm health care for the lower paid or that it will increase the huge national debt.

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  Meanwhile the bill has reignited the row between the President and his erstwhile friend and advisor Elon Musk.

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  So could that harm the prospects of Musk's company, Tesla?

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  Also on the programme,

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  the new way of blocking AI crawler bots from stealing content from websites.

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  And we visit Europe's longest road and rail bridge as it celebrates its 25th birthday.

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  But first, Donald Trump's big, beautiful,

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  but highly controversial finance bill has got through the US Senate,

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  but only by casting vote of the Vice President, JD Vance.

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  The Senate majority leader is the Republican, John Toon.

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  Since we took office in January,

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  Republicans have been laser focused on achieving the bill before us today.

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  And now we're here,

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  passing legislation that will permanently extend tax relief for hardworking Americans.

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  Mr. President,

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  that will spur economic growth and more jobs and opportunities for American workers.

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  That will rebuild our military, secure our borders, unleash American energy,

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  and cut waste, fraud and abuse in federal programmes.

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