Axios PM

July 01, 2025
Good Tuesday afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 454 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing.
1 big thing: Fresh GOP revolt over megabill

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing an explosion of internal anger over the Senate's changes to President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," Axios' Andrew Solender and Kate Santaliz report.
- The Senate passed the sweeping budget bill 51-50 today, after almost 24 hours of debate and amendments. Three GOP senators — Rand Paul (Ky.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Susan Collins (Maine) — voted no.
Johnson has just days to pass the bill before Republicans' July 4 deadline (that's Friday!) — which will require flipping dozens of "no" votes and overcoming numerous procedural hurdles.

📝 "Our bill has been completely changed. ... It's a non-starter," Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) bemoaned to reporters today.
- One House Republican, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Axios there are "well over 20" GOP lawmakers threatening to vote against the bill.
🔎 Zoom in: Right-wing House Republicans are upset that the Senate bill is projected to add more to the deficit than the House version would.
- "They're backing away from the spending cuts, the spending restraint. They're backing away from the reforms that we think makes the math work," Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said in a post on X.
- Inside the bill: "A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save," by N.Y. Times Upshot (gift link).
2. 📉 National pride declines


58% of American adults — a record low — say they're "extremely" or "very" proud to be an American, Axios' Avery Lotz writes from Gallup polling this month.
- Just 36% of Democrats said they were extremely or very proud to be an American, joined by 53% of independents. That's a new low for both groups, and only the second time Democrats' pride has slipped below 50%.
- 92% of Republicans said they were extremely or very proud to be an American.
3. Catch me up

- 🐊 "We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland and the only way out is really deportation," President Trump said today as he toured the Everglades immigration detention facility that has become known as "Alligator Alcatraz." Go deeper.
- 🚔 The FBI might move into USAID's former offices, The Washington Post reports (gift link). The move would keep the bureau in D.C. rather than moving it to the Maryland suburbs as previously planned.
- 📺 Jimmy Swaggart, a wildly popular televangelist who fell from grace after admitting to an extramarital affair, died today at age 90. NYT obit (gift link).
4. 🦖1 for the road

People dressed in inflatable dinosaur costumes participate in the T-Rex World Championship Races this past weekend in Auburn, Washington
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