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Mostly sunny and seventy eight degrees in Boston at four clock. Happy Independence Day. I'm Suzanne Sosville. Here is what's happening. President Trump is scheduled to sign a sweeping budget bill today at the White House. CBS's Robert Costa tells US Republican party insiders are anticipating possible voter backlash and considering ways to effectively respond to it.
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There are public celebrations from President Trump and other Republicans, behind the scenes, it's a little bit more muted. There is concern that head of the twenty twenty six midterm elections, Republicans are going to feel a burden politically because of all of these cuts across the board, and especially on Medicaid. Many working Americans who are looking for that sort of healthcare coverage, who are looking for food benefits, might make Republicans.
Pay the price.
But strategists say in the GOP they're going to work in the coming year to try to sell this bill.
President Trump has invited all members of Congress to assigning ceremony this evening at the White House. Democrats are unlikely to attend. Some local nonprofits are bracing for the impacts of the bill, which is full of tax breaks mostly for the rich, and spending cuts to social programs.
Step into Daniel's table in framing him, and you'll find Sandra Montecito, faced with empty shelves and a growing need.
It's way down.
Donations have been really down.
For the past decade. The organization has been helping the food and secure. The donations have dropped more than fifteen percent, and they're worried this new bill will make it worse. These cuts are going to have a significant impact to Daniel Seel. When President Donald Trump's signature Big Beautiful Bill passed on Thursday, it significantly increased spending for border security,
immigration enforcement, and defense. It also extends the twenty seventeen tax cuts from the president's first term, increases the child tax credit, INDs tax on tips, and overtime pay. Democrats unanimously voting against the bill, citing changes and steep cuts to safety net programs, including SNAP and Medicaid. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates Medicaid could be cut by nine hundred and thirty billion dollars, with nearly twelve million people at risk of losing healthcare.
CBS News Boston's Brandon Truett reporting. Governor Mora Heally has approved the state's nearly sixty one billion dollar annual budget, but vetoed one hundred and thirty million dollars of planned spending. The veto comes as the state races for federal funding cuts from President Trump's massive spending bill. The budget package is full of funding boost to healthcare, education, and transportation,
plus a policy ending broker's fees for renters. The bill raises spending by over five percent, but is over one billion dollars smaller than the version Heally introduced in January. The forecast mostly clear skies Tonight sixty four in Boston, fifties in most suburbs. Mostly Sunday. Tomorrow a very beautiful day with low humidity, highs in the mid to upper eighties.
On Sunday hot and more humid, with a mix of sun and clouds, high ninety two, and on Monday, mostly sunny, hot and humid, with a high again of ninety two. Right now in Boston, it's mostly sunny and seventy eight degrees. Hollywood actor Kurt Russell gets a lesson on his family's history. W bz's Mike Macklin has more from Arlington.
Actor Kurt Russell reflects on his family's history at Arlington, where the actor's eighth generation ancestor Jason Russell, battled British troops retreating from Lexington and conquered on April ninth, seventeen seventy five, the first day of the American Revolution.
Crazy, how familial things I've heard about him, and reading of we're getting to.
Learn about, how familiar that year is just it's just pretty wild.
The house where Jason Russell was shot and bayoneted to death on the doorstep is now a National Historic Site. Three hundred years after the historic battle, here Kurt Russell got his first look at the family's homestead.
This has neveren anything in our family's history that we have talked about, our discuss or even knew about. And finding out what you know we're finding out here is just takes a bit of a shock.
And a lesson in the courage and conviction of the generation that founded our nation. In Arlington. Mike maclum wv Z Boston's News Radio.
A returning champion reclaims his title at Nathan's famous hot dog eating contest.
The Man who Needs Little Introduction. Following a year off because of a sponsorship dispute, Joey John's Chestnut made his triumphant return to the big stage in Coney Island to capture his seventeenth belt.
I love being here and as soon as I have found out I was coming my body.
It was easy to train and I love doing it.
Courtesy of ESPN and Nathan's just shy of hitting his personal record Chestnutscarf down seventy and a half hot dogs in ten minutes to reclaim the title and the twenty thousand dollars cash prize. Erica Herskowitz for CBS News New York.
Nissan is recalling over four hundred and eighty thousand vehicles in the US and Canada. CBS's Jennifer Kuiper tells us more.
Potential manufacturing defects could cause engine failure insertain Nissan Rogues and Ultima's, as well as a number of Infinity QX fifties and QX fifty five sold under the automaker's luxury brand. The vehicles impacted carry specific VC turbo engines that may have manufacturing defects in their bearings. Nissan and Infinity dealers will inspect the engine pan of the now recalled cars and repair or replace the engine if necessary. Jennifer Kuiper, CBS News.
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