Marathon vote on 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 Sam Fennett.

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  Coming up today,

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  a marathon voting session in the US Senate over Donald Trump's tax cuts continues.

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  We'll have the latest on that.

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  Trade tensions between Japan and the US rise over one of life's staples, rice.

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  Also today?

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  Driving across can take less than 15 minutes.

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  It's around 10 miles long, including a tunnel section.

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  Can you name the iconic bridge that's marking 25 years

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  since it first connected two countries?

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  But first, a new record has been set in the United States.

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  The marathon Senate vote on Donald Trump's one big beautiful bill has reached 45 consecutive votes,

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  making it the longest voterama in Senate history.

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  Republicans made the tax code more progressive, not less.

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  Americans deserve more than empty platitudes.

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  They deserve meaningful tax relief and real results.

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  President Trump claims to fight for the working class,

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  yet we have before us a bill that gives tax breaks to the top 1% that will be paid in cuts to Medicaid,

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  SNAP, and more.

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