🎯 Axios PM: New GOP revolt

🦖 Plus: T-Rex races | Tuesday, July 01, 2025

View in browser   PRESENTED BY VISA   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Jul 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   Screenshot: Senate TV via AP 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. House Speaker Mike Johnson arrives at the Capitol today. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images 📝 "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. Keep reading. 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   Data: Gallup. Chart: Axios Visuals 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. Explore the data ... Keep reading.     A MESSAGE FROM VISA Digital payment systems face growing fraud threats     Visa is protecting the payments ecosystem, analyzing over 500 data points on up to 83,000 transactions per second. The impact: Real-time insight helps detect fraud and keep digital payments secure. Learn how Visa is protecting America's payments.     3. Catch me up   President Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem tour the migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in Ochopee, Fla., today. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images 🐊 "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   Photo: Lindsey Wasson/AP People dressed in inflatable dinosaur costumes participate in the T-Rex World Championship Races this past weekend in Auburn, Washington More photos.     A MESSAGE FROM VISA Visa-backed programs give students real-world money skills     Visa and its FinEd50 partners are expanding access to personal finance education in all 50 states. Why it's important: Free tools equip graduates with skills to budget, save, and build stronger financial futures. Learn how Visa is helping students.   📬 Thanks for reading! Please invite your friends to join PM. Are you a fan of this email format? Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. Advertise with us. Axios, PO Box 101060, Arlington VA 22201   You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from Axios. To stop receiving this newsletter, unsubscribe or manage your email preferences.   Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get Axios in your inbox.   Follow Axios on social media: