Manu Raju Asks GOP Senators About Voting on Big Beautiful Bill Text They Haven't Read Yet: 'We Know Where We Are Going' [View all]
Source: MEDIAite
Jun 27th, 2025, 7:29 pm
CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju spoke with several Republican lawmakers on Friday about the possibility that they would vote on the latest version of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” without having had time to read the final text — something that has been a complaint from Republicans in the past about Democrats.
Raju spoke with Jake Tapper on Friday’s The Lead about his interviews with GOP lawmakers ahead of the hoped-for vote on the latest Senate version of the agenda bill from President Donald Trump, which Trump dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” and which has been the subject of extensive debate and maneuvering among Republicans.
Raju said to multiple GOP members on Friday that the process is moving fast or that there hasn’t been time to review it, asking for their explanations of how that might look to American voters. “What do you think voters say when they look at the process here that’s being employed to push this through and it’ll be voted on and people haven’t even got a chance to review it?” Raju said to Sen. Lindsey Graham in one such interview.
“I don’t remember the voters saying anything about Obamacare,” Graham replied. “You guys did,” said Raju, likely referring to the strong reactions at the time to a statement by then Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who said of Obamacare “have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
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