Morning Wire - Trump’s Budget Passes Senate | 7.2.25

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

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Trump's big, beautiful bill heads back to the House after a marathon Senate session and a tie-breaking vote from J.D. Vance. It is rich to hear Democrats all of a sudden concerned about debt and deficits. I'm Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Wednesday, July 2nd, and this is Morning Wire. Trump and Governor DeSantis put aside past differences at Alligator Alcatraz, touting the power of their federal state alliance. Ron and I have had a really great relationship for a long time. We had a little off period for a couple of days, but it didn't last long. And Brian Coburger avoids the death penalty pleading guilty to murdering four Idaho students. Life without possibility of parole, no appeals is the deal that's on the table right now.

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Hey, Cabot, so quite the saga in Washington. We've been tracking this now for weeks. What happened yesterday? Well, the real raking news, D.C. now facing a coffee shortage after senators and their staff spent the last 48 hours hold up debating this legislation nonstop. And what Washington calls a voterrama where members submit last-minute amendments for a final vote. In this case, there were votes held on everything from Medicare cuts. and electric car subsidies to health care for legal immigrants and planned parenthood funding.

When all was said and done, this ended up being the longest voterama in history, with 45 separate amendments voted on. That process went all night, Monday, and well into Tuesday afternoon. Democrats made clear that they viewed this voterama as a means of forcing Republicans to go on the record with their views. But more importantly, as we've discussed earlier, to stall. That tactic angered Republicans and even some Democrats who oppose the bill, including Pennsylvania's John Federman.

oh my God, I just want to go home. I've already, I've missed our entire trip to the beach. I don't think it's really helpful to put people here until when someone got the hour. But ultimately, Democrats could only stall for so long before that final vote was held. Right, and when that vote came, it was as razor thin as you get. Tell us about that. Well, given their slim majority, the GOP coming in, could only afford to lose three Republican votes. And with Senators Rand Paul, Tom Tillis, and Susan Collins, definite nose, In many ways, it all came down to Alaska's Lisa Murkowski.

Ultimately, GOP leadership won her over by offering some major concessions. They exempted Alaska from a number of key funding cuts for the bill, and that ultimately was enough to get her on board. That meant the final vote tally was 50-50, allowing Vice President Vance to swoop in as the tie-breaking vote and give a major victory to his boss. The yeas are 50. The nays are 50. The Senate being evenly divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative,

the bill as amended is passed. And in a really extraordinary moment Tuesday, we actually got to see President Trump here in real time that his bill had passed when a staffer alerted him during a separate news conference. Oh, thank you. Wow. Thank you. You know, I'm waiting, listening to these wonderful words

and they are music in my ears, but I was also wondering how we're doing because I know this is prime time. It shows that I care about you because I'm here and I probably should be there. Quite the moment there in classic Trump fashion there, too. So what comes next? So the bill will now go back to the House where it is expected to pass, but not without some difficulty. There are a number of hardline conservatives who've already expressed concerns about some of the changes that happened in the Senate.

There are some serious issues with it, we think. I'll name just three. First of all, it defunds Planned Parenthood abortion services for only one year. It leaves illegals on Medicaid. And frankly, the language that was added at the very last minute seems to put the entire green news scam back into play. Those are all serious issues that we see with the bill. And it's worth noting, given the delay from Senate Democrats, this bill might not be voted on before President Trump's deadline of July 4th. House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he would honor the customary 72-hour period to allow members three days to

review legislation. So it's going to be tight. Now, we mostly heard from Democrats criticizing the bill, but there's another familiar voice that's really laid into it in the last couple days. Tell us about Elon Musk. Yeah, once again, Musk going on the record to slam President Trump's signature legislation. This feud had seemed to cool off in recent weeks, but in the last 24 hours, Musk renewed the fight, threatening again to start a third party and funded as well if this bill passed, claiming it would quote, bankrupt America. For its part, President Trump said the real reason that Musk opposes this legislation is that it will cut federal subsidies for electric vehicles.

And then later on at the White House, Trump went a step further. Listen to this response when asked if he would consider deporting Elon Musk. I don't know. I think we'll have to take a look. We might have to put Dogeon, Elon. You know? You know, Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn't that be terrible?

No, highly unlikely, President Trump has, But serious about that, but it gives an idea of how intense this feud has once again become. Yeah. In response, must grow, quote, so tempting to escalate this, so, so, tempting. But I will refrain for now. In the meantime, President Trump heads into the 4th of July with his agenda fast approaching the finish line. Boy, bruising battle to get this thing done. Cabot, thanks for reporting.

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down at the state's new alligator alcatraz on Tuesday. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about what Trump and DeSantis have planned for the near future. So, Tim, these two campaigned pretty hard against each other for the GOP nomination, but it sounds like no bad blood anymore. What do these two have planned? Right. Trump and DeSantis have reconciled since that pretty lively presidential primary fight last year.

And Trump's win in November pushed the two even closer, especially on immigration, but also on other issues as well. Here's Trump commenting on that yesterday. Ron, I'd like to thank you personally. You're my friend, and you'll always be my friend. And we may have some skirmishes, even in the future. I doubt it. But I will always come back because we just seem to,

we have blood that seems to match pretty well. We have a relationship that's been a very strong one. Some important context here. DeSantis is term limited as Florida's governor, and he has made some signs that his wife Casey may jump into the 2026 race to replace him. An endorsement from Trump would be a huge boon in a Republican primary that has the potential to be extraordinarily competitive. Right.

An endorsement from Trump would be huge for any gubernatorial candidate in Florida. Now, DeSantis has emerged as a major ally on the immigration front for Trump. What did they discuss? Yeah, DeSantis has been at the forefront of pushing Trump's immigration agenda. The reason for the press conference yesterday was a visit to alligator Alcatraz. We told you about the new immigration facility being built in the Everglades yesterday. It could hold thousands of illegal aliens slated for deportation. But in addition to the new detention facility, Trump also plans to deputize Florida National

Guardsmen as immigration judges. This could massively cut down the time it takes to schedule immigration hearings from a matter of years to just a few days. Here's DeSantis on that. We're offering up our National Guard and other folks in Florida to be deputized to be immigration judges. We're working with the Department of Justice for the approvals. I'm sure Tamill approved.

But then you have, I'll have a National Guard judge advocate here. Someone has a notice to appear. Biden would tell him to come back in three years and appear. Now you'll be able to appear in like a day or two. So they're not going to be detained hopefully for all that long. Now, the White House has to be excited about this because detention capacity has been a big constraint on Trump's immigration agenda. That's why we've seen the Trump administration partner with El Salvador, for instance,

to hold illegal aliens or ship them to Guantanamo Bay. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now arresting. hundreds of illegal aliens a day, and Trump is doing whatever he can to make sure none of them are released back into the public after they've been caught. Now, a topic related to immigration that has to do with the upcoming midterms is the census. Trump and DeSantis discussed that. What did they say? Yeah, this would put Republicans in a much better position in the 26 midterms. Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green has a proposal to redo the 2020 census, and it has Trump support. The main gripe among Republicans is that the census data doesn't differentiate.

between American citizens and illegal immigrants. So the current allotments of representatives by state aren't accurate. Here's to Sanis. California would lose like five seats if they did a fair census. And even beyond that, the Biden census gypped Florida of at least one seat. We only got one seat in the last census. Are you trying to tell me that Florida only had one seat on that? We should have had at least two.

Texas should have had another one. That could be the difference in the House of Representatives and the majority. But as it's right now, this country is not fairly apportioned. Well, and as we can see with the current Congress, just a few seats can make a huge difference. Tim, thanks for reporting. Good to be on. The man accused of the 2022 Idaho murders has accepted a plea deal. The death penalty trial was originally set to begin on August 18th, but now there won't be a trial at all. So, Georgia, you've been following the story very closely like a lot of people across the country.

What did we see this week? Right. So Brian Coburger will accept. a plea deal. The charges include four counts of murder and one count of burglary. And in exchange, they have taken the death penalty off the table. He will be serving four consecutive life sentences. He has waived the right to appeal and there is no possibility of parole. There will be a change of plea hearing today and hopefully that will bring some closure for the families. Remember, we're talking about the death of four college students, Kaylee Guncalves, Madison Mogan, Zana Kurnodal and Ethan Chapin, and the family of Kaylee Guncalves, at least, has expressed serious disappointment with

this plea deal. They're calling it shocking and cruel. They posted a statement on social media. They said, we are beyond furious at the state of Idaho. They have failed us. And was this a surprise move? It was a surprise, because Coburger's defense has maintained his complete innocence since the very beginning. And that was despite some very difficult evidence against Coburger. So, for example, we had surveillance footage of his white elantra going to and from the crime scene. There was cell phone data that was consistent with him traveling to and from the crime scene on the night of. And also cell phone data showing him hanging out outside around the vicinity of the crime scene about a dozen times late at night before this crime occurred. Now, probably most damning was his DNA was found on the knife sheath.

And remember, that knife was the murder weapon in this case. the sheathed the knife was found at the murder scene. There was also his purchase history that showed he purchased a black ski mask that was very similar to the one described by the witness. That was the surviving roommate. Then just some contextual information. He was a criminology student who showed interest in serial killers and he discussed on Reddit forums how it feels to commit a crime. So there was just a lot stacked against Koeberger in this case. But that said, his defense attorney, Anne Taylor, did a pretty spectacular job of dreading. edging up any possible doubt she could.

So, for example, she filed a motion to have the DNA evidence thrown out because it was obtained, according to her, through an illegal genealogy search. Now, the defense was planning to bring out an alternative suspect theory, and all they had to do is convince one juror that there was possibly some doubt. And even if they failed to do that, the other things that Ann Taylor brought up provided pretty fertile ground for appeals down the road. Despite all that, they decided they didn't want to risk it at trial. Right.

Well, they had some major setbacks just in the past week and month. So the judge dismissed the defense's attempt to introduce the alternative suspect theory. They said that was completely speculative. Defense attorney and Taylor pursued this plea deal for Brian. So there's still a lot about this case. We don't know. Without a trial, will we ever get to the bottom of some of these details? You know, we don't know because for the past two years, everyone involved has been under a strict gag order.

So there's a lot of evidence that hasn't come out. It's possible now it will once he takes this plea and that gag order is lifted. It's also possible that Brian will want to come out and talk about it. He has nothing not to lose. And we do know from his history, he likes crime. He likes talking about crime. So really, we don't know if we'll ever find out the truth. Well, we've seen a lot of frustration from the families because of this plea deal,

but at least this does put this case to rest. Right. And from what we've heard, that's what the community, and the state of Idaho is ready to do. Thanks for waking up with us. And if you're watching on YouTube, please like and subscribe. We'll be back later this evening

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