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Senate Spending Bill, Ukraine Airstrikes, Idaho Firefighter Shootings

2025/6/30
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Deirdre Walsh: 作为NPR的国会记者，我认为目前参议院正在辩论的共和党税收和支出法案在共和党内部存在分歧，主要是在医疗补助的削减方面。虽然领导层对通过该法案表示有信心，但他们最多只能失去三票。Tom Tillis已经公开表示反对，并警告说削减医疗补助将导致数十亿美元的成本转移到各州。我认为总统支持这个法案是错误的。一些保守派参议员，如Ron Johnson和Rick Scott，希望更大幅度地削减开支，并推动修改医疗补助扩张计划的联邦政府支付方式。而像Susan Collins和Lisa Murkowski这样的温和派共和党人则希望限制对医疗补助的修改，并确保农村医院有足够的资源来治疗病人。这项法案主要是一项税收法案，使2017年的减税政策永久化，并增加了一些临时性的税收减免。为了抵消这些减税，法案包括大幅削减开支，其中大部分来自对医疗补助的修改。国会的无党派评分员表示，该法案预计将在未来十年内增加3.3万亿美元的赤字，并可能导致近1200万美国人失去医保。即使参议院批准该法案，众议院也很难通过，特朗普总统将向共和党人施加压力以支持该法案。

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The Senate debates a Republican tax and spending bill, facing dissent over Medicaid cuts. The bill includes permanent tax cuts from 2017, additional tax breaks, increased spending, and significant cuts to various programs. The potential impact on Medicaid and the bill's overall cost are highlighted.
  • Senate debates Republican tax and spending bill
  • Dissent over Medicaid cuts
  • Bill includes permanent 2017 tax cuts, additional breaks, increased spending
  • Significant spending cuts, impacting Medicaid and other programs
  • $3.3 trillion addition to deficit over next decade, 12 million potential loss of coverage

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Several Senate Republicans are attacking the cuts to Medicaid in the President's massive tax and spending bill, Russia unleashed a barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine, and two firefighters are dead in North Idaho after an ambush by a sniper. *Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? Subscribe) to the Up First newsletter. **Today's episode of Up First was edited by Jason Breslow, Ryland Barton, Kevin Drew, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Destinee Adams and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Zo van Ginhoven. And our technical director is Zac Coleman. *Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)