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Speaker 2: Mostly sunny and seventy eight degrees in Boston at four clock.
Speaker 2: Happy Independence Day. I'm Suzanne Sosville. Here is what's happening.
Speaker 2: President Trump is scheduled to sign a sweeping budget bill
Speaker 2: today at the White House. CBS's Robert Costa tells US
Speaker 2: Republican party insiders are anticipating possible voter backlash and considering
Speaker 2: ways to effectively respond to it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: There are public celebrations from President Trump and other Republicans,
Speaker 4: behind the scenes, it's a little bit more muted. There
Speaker 4: is concern that head of the twenty twenty six midterm elections,
Speaker 4: Republicans are going to feel a burden politically because of
Speaker 4: all of these cuts across the board, and especially on Medicaid.
Speaker 4: Many working Americans who are looking for that sort of
Speaker 4: healthcare coverage, who are looking for food benefits, might make Republicans.
Speaker 5: Pay the price.
Speaker 4: But strategists say in the GOP they're going to work
Speaker 4: in the coming year to try to sell this bill.
Speaker 2: President Trump has invited all members of Congress to assigning
Speaker 2: ceremony this evening at the White House. Democrats are unlikely
Speaker 2: to attend. Some local nonprofits are bracing for the impacts
Speaker 2: of the bill, which is full of tax breaks mostly
Speaker 2: for the rich, and spending cuts to social programs.
Speaker 5: Step into Daniel's table in framing him, and you'll find
Speaker 5: Sandra Montecito, faced with empty shelves and a growing need.
Speaker 1: It's way down.
Speaker 4: Donations have been really down.
Speaker 5: For the past decade. The organization has been helping the
Speaker 5: food and secure. The donations have dropped more than fifteen percent,
Speaker 5: and they're worried this new bill will make it worse.
Speaker 5: These cuts are going to have a significant impact to
Speaker 5: Daniel Seel. When President Donald Trump's signature Big Beautiful Bill
Speaker 5: passed on Thursday, it significantly increased spending for border security,
Speaker 5: immigration enforcement, and defense. It also extends the twenty seventeen
Speaker 5: tax cuts from the president's first term, increases the child
Speaker 5: tax credit, INDs tax on tips, and overtime pay. Democrats
Speaker 5: unanimously voting against the bill, citing changes and steep cuts
Speaker 5: to safety net programs, including SNAP and Medicaid. The nonpartisan
Speaker 5: Congressional Budget Office estimates Medicaid could be cut by nine
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty billion dollars, with nearly twelve million people
Speaker 5: at risk of losing healthcare.
Speaker 2: CBS News Boston's Brandon Truett reporting. Governor Mora Heally has
Speaker 2: approved the state's nearly sixty one billion dollar annual budget,
Speaker 2: but vetoed one hundred and thirty million dollars of planned spending.
Speaker 2: The veto comes as the state races for federal funding
Speaker 2: cuts from President Trump's massive spending bill. The budget package
Speaker 2: is full of funding boost to healthcare, education, and transportation,
Speaker 2: plus a policy ending broker's fees for renters. The bill
Speaker 2: raises spending by over five percent, but is over one
Speaker 2: billion dollars smaller than the version Heally introduced in January.
Speaker 2: The forecast mostly clear skies Tonight sixty four in Boston,
Speaker 2: fifties in most suburbs. Mostly Sunday. Tomorrow a very beautiful
Speaker 2: day with low humidity, highs in the mid to upper eighties.
Speaker 2: On Sunday hot and more humid, with a mix of
Speaker 2: sun and clouds, high ninety two, and on Monday, mostly sunny,
Speaker 2: hot and humid, with a high again of ninety two.
Speaker 2: Right now in Boston, it's mostly sunny and seventy eight degrees.
Speaker 2: Hollywood actor Kurt Russell gets a lesson on his family's history.
Speaker 2: W bz's Mike Macklin has more from Arlington.
Speaker 1: Actor Kurt Russell reflects on his family's history at Arlington,
Speaker 1: where the actor's eighth generation ancestor Jason Russell, battled British
Speaker 1: troops retreating from Lexington and conquered on April ninth, seventeen
Speaker 1: seventy five, the first day of the American Revolution.
Speaker 5: Crazy, how familial things I've heard about him, and reading
Speaker 5: of we're getting to.
Speaker 6: Learn about, how familiar that year is just it's just
Speaker 6: pretty wild.
Speaker 1: The house where Jason Russell was shot and bayoneted to
Speaker 1: death on the doorstep is now a National Historic Site.
Speaker 1: Three hundred years after the historic battle, here Kurt Russell
Speaker 1: got his first look at the family's homestead.
Speaker 3: This has neveren anything in our family's history that we
Speaker 3: have talked about, our discuss or even knew about. And
Speaker 3: finding out what you know we're finding out here is
Speaker 3: just takes a bit of a shock.
Speaker 1: And a lesson in the courage and conviction of the
Speaker 1: generation that founded our nation. In Arlington. Mike maclum wv
Speaker 1: Z Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: A returning champion reclaims his title at Nathan's famous hot
Speaker 2: dog eating contest.
Speaker 3: The Man who Needs Little Introduction. Following a year off
Speaker 3: because of a sponsorship dispute, Joey John's Chestnut made his
Speaker 3: triumphant return to the big stage in Coney Island to
Speaker 3: capture his seventeenth belt.
Speaker 5: I love being here and as soon as I have
Speaker 5: found out I was coming my body.
Speaker 1: It was easy to train and I love doing it.
Speaker 3: Courtesy of ESPN and Nathan's just shy of hitting his
Speaker 3: personal record Chestnutscarf down seventy and a half hot dogs
Speaker 3: in ten minutes to reclaim the title and the twenty
Speaker 3: thousand dollars cash prize. Erica Herskowitz for CBS News New York.
Speaker 2: Nissan is recalling over four hundred and eighty thousand vehicles
Speaker 2: in the US and Canada. CBS's Jennifer Kuiper tells us more.
Speaker 6: Potential manufacturing defects could cause engine failure insertain Nissan Rogues
Speaker 6: and Ultima's, as well as a number of Infinity QX
Speaker 6: fifties and QX fifty five sold under the automaker's luxury brand.
Speaker 6: The vehicles impacted carry specific VC turbo engines that may
Speaker 6: have manufacturing defects in their bearings. Nissan and Infinity dealers
Speaker 6: will inspect the engine pan of the now recalled cars
Speaker 6: and repair or replace the engine if necessary. Jennifer Kuiper,
Speaker 6: CBS News.
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