The Senate has advanced President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill to a full debate despite two GOP defections after hours of drama.

The final tally was 51-49. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina were the two Republican nays.

Ron Johnson of Wisconsin initially voted no but switched to yes.

Vice President JD Vance arrived at the Capitol earlier to potentially cast a tie-breaking vote.

WATCH

Vice President Vance enters the Capitol as he prepares to break a potential tie on the first procedural hurdle on the GOP reconciliation bill pic.twitter.com/d2ATm6dP6m

— Max Cohen (@maxpcohen) June 29, 2025

The GOP holds a 53-47 majority in the Senate. With Tillis and Paul voting no, Republicans needed to hope that Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted to proceed with the debate.

This was a bit of a gamble since these are the two most notorious RINOs in all of Congress. With that in mind, the GOP gave a little gift to Murkowski: a special tax cut for Alaskan whaling captains, which would benefit subsistence hunters.

Fortunately, both came through, though Murkowski helped drag the process out by over an hour.

But then Senators Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, and Senator Mike Lee of Utah held the vote up for two more hours. Finally, they were able to cut a deal.

Johnson then flipped his vote to yes.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the final text of President Trump’s signature domestic legislation was released late last night. The legislation accomplishes several critical policies, including making the Trump tax cuts permanent, eliminating taxation on tips and overtime, locking down the border, and taking an axe to Joe Biden’s green energy scam.

The vote to proceed was supposed to happen roughly 4 pm. but Democrats blocked it for a few hours in a childish tantrum.

However, there were questions regarding whether the vote would succeed. One key GOP holdout, Johnson, announced Sunday morning he would vote no after Paul made clear several days ago he was opposed.

“President Trump, his goal in the Senate was to make the Big Beautiful Bill even better. I’d like it much better,” he told “Fox and Friends on Saturday.” “Right now, I’m not going to vote for a motion to proceed today.

“We just got the bill. I got my first copy about 1:23 in the morning, this morning.”

Then, Tillis announced he was a no.

Tillis, who has warned about the impact of state directed payments to North Carolina, tells me he is a “no” on the motion to proceed.

“I respect their choice,” he said. “It’s not a good impact in my state, so I’m not going to vote on the motion to proceed.”

— Alex Miller (@AlexMillerFox1) June 28, 2025

Now, the process will stall for up to 15 hours as Democrats have vowed to force the Senate clerk to read the entire bill. But they are likely only delaying the bill’s inevitable passage.

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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley appeared on the Hannity show this weekend and talked with guest host Kellyanne Conway about the drama we saw unfold on the Supreme Court this week.

Turley suggested that the majority wing of SCOTUS is tired of the antics of the leftist minority of the court.

He noted that the ‘histrionics and the hysteria’ are just too much.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

KELLYANNE CONWAY, “HANNITY” GUEST HOST: For anyone against unchecked government power, this was a very, very good day.

Here now with analysis, FOX News contributor Jonathan Turley.

Jonathan Turley, what an incredible day at the Supreme Court.

Let’s have you break it down. And also I think people are very curious how this does impact things like sanctuary city funding, birthright citizenship and other issues at play.

JONATHAN TURLEY, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, thank you, Kellyanne.

I think that the first thing the president should do is go buy a lottery ticket because he’s having a heck of a week and if I was going to get a lottery ticket, it’s probably be today.

But this is a huge win for him. It does negate what has been a stumbling block. These judges have been throwing sand in the works in many of his policies, from immigration, to birthright citizenship, to DOGE cuts. That will presumably now be tamped down.

If these judges try to circumvent that, I think they’ll find an even more expedited path to a Supreme Court that’s going to continue to reverse some of these — lift some of these injunctions.

As you noted, the opinion was really radioactive in this take-down of Justice Jackson. I — it’s rare. I’ve been — I’ve been covering the Supreme Court for decades. It’s rare to see that type of exchange.

The important thing to remember is that, you know, Justice Barrett delivered what was essentially a pile driver but she didn’t do it alone. I mean, her colleagues signed on to this and I think it’s very clear that the majority is getting tired of the histrionics and the hysteria that seems to be growing a bit on the left side of the court. But this was really an astonishing uh takedown by the justice.

But it’s the — it’s the hyperbole that’s coming out of the dissent that is so notable. Justice Sotomayor in that Maryland case said that giving parents the ability to opt out of a few lessons was going to, quote, create chaos and probably end public education. Then you had Justice Jackson saying this could very well essentially be the death of democracy. It’s the type of hyperbole that most justices have avoided.

Here’s the video:

Jonathan Turley: ‘Very Clear’ After Curbing Nationwide Injunctions, Majority SCOTUS Growing Tired Of Histrionics from Left Side of Court pic.twitter.com/y6HNrpNW13

— Alexandra Datig | Front Page Index (@alexdatig) June 28, 2025

Turley nailed this and did so eloquently, as usual.

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You may not be a huge fan of former CNN host Chris Cuomo but every once in a while he gets something right.

In this case, Cuomo slammed AOC and his old network for rushing to claim that Trump’s airstrikes on Iran weren’t effective. In CNN’s case, they rushed out a preliminary ‘top secret’ report. Trump slammed them for it.

They simply can’t allow Trump to have a win on anything. Even Chris Cuomo can see it.

The New York Post reported:

Chris Cuomo ripped into his former network CNN on Wednesday, accusing it of leaning into partisan theatrics as it feuds with President Trump over a report questioning the effectiveness of US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

Cuomo’s criticism came during his NewsNation show “Cuomo,” where he hosted Bill O’Reilly to discuss fallout from a leaked intelligence assessment suggesting the recent strikes likely delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions by months — not years, as US officials had claimed.

“I think that [CNN is] trying too hard to compete with these pod bros and people who sell hysteria for profit,” Cuomo said on his show.

“We just too often get caught up in the propaganda game.”

Trump blasted the media coverage, labeling it “fake news,” while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also dismissed the reports during a Thursday press conference.

See the clip below:

Chris Cuomo calls out Democrats and CNN for wanting the Fordow strike to be a failure:
“Then came more proof of wanting it to be a failure. The leaked preliminary Pentagon analysis which said the nuclear sites were not obliterated, but they were ‘severely damaged.’ First, why… pic.twitter.com/ZMS6cobTkJ

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 27, 2025

In another segment on the same show, Cuomo went off in a rant about how the radical left is killing the Democrat party. Watch:

Chris Cuomo says we should focus on what the majority wants and not what few radicals want. The majority was AGAINST the Civil Rights Movement. Imagine if activists listened to the majority during that time. pic.twitter.com/lrLc5YYzPy

— Sabby Sabs (@SabbySabs2) June 25, 2025

Credit where it’s due. He got some things right here.

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If you were following the Supreme Court news yesterday, you likely saw that Justice Amy Coney Barrett smacked down her fellow Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson over her childish dissent, saying:

“We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” she began. “We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial executive while embracing an imperial judiciary,” she added.

Now another excerpt from Jackson’s dissent is circulating and it contains a phrase that makes Jackson sound more like a YouTuber than a Supreme Court justice.

She actually used the expression ‘wait for it’ in the middle of a sentence.

See below:

First time I’ve seen the phrase, “Wait for it” in a SCOTUS ruling.

What is she writing, a judicial dissent, or an article for MSNBC? pic.twitter.com/FO3yQZwSHb

— ArthurinCali (@ArthurReturnss) June 27, 2025

Just amazing.

It’s one thing to have an intellectually unimpressive Supreme Court Justice. But it’s somewhat surprising how unintelligent her clerks appear to be as well.

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 27, 2025

Lots of people commented on this on Twitter/X:

The phrase “Wait for it” gives off a Tik Tok vibe completely unsuited for a SCOTUS opinion. I can imagine her clerking staff encouraging its inclusion, though.

— ArthurinCali (@ArthurReturnss) June 27, 2025

“One of the sharpest legal minds in a generation”

-Biden, remarking on Justice Jackson

— ArthurinCali (@ArthurReturnss) June 27, 2025

We are all Amy Coney Barrett today. Good God, how did this person ever make it to the Supreme Court. https://t.co/AT01q1joyY

— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) June 27, 2025

As it turns out . . . (wait for it) . . . the American people understand that a “woman” is an adult female person.

Full stop.

IYKYK. Seems like there were warning signs. ‍ https://t.co/mtAIWorFpf

— Gene Hamilton (@GeneHamiltonUSA) June 27, 2025

We are reaping the fruit of GenZ SCOTUS clerks being trained their whole lives to write for clicks. https://t.co/Gvcv5VmX1v

— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) June 27, 2025

Is there any wonder why Barrett and the other justices didn’t take Jackson’s dissent seriously? Even she didn’t seem to.

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