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The Senate will be voting on the “One Big, Beautiful bill” beginning Friday, according to an exclusive report from Axios.

While speaking with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), he told the outlet he is confident the spending bill will make Trump’s Fourth of July deadline.

As Republican lawmakers race to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” by July 4, some of its supporters are giving dire warnings if it fails, like Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who on Tuesday warned that the economy would crash like “a fat guy on a seesaw” were the bill’s tax cuts – largely enjoyed by the wealthiest Americans – not extended.

“If we don’t pass this bill, you raise taxes $4.3 trillion on 300-plus million Americans, and you’ll watch this economy go down like a fat guy on a seesaw,” Kennedy said, speaking on the Senate floor. “We don’t have a choice.”

After several lawmakers backed war power resolutions to check President Donald Trump’s ability to declare war – a power constitutionally reserved for Congress – Trump ally and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Tuesday that he believes such checks themselves are “unconstitutional."

“Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional," Johnson told reporters, per Axios. “I'm persuaded by that argument. They think it's a violation of the Article 2 powers of the commander in chief. I think that's right."

President Donald Trump unleashed a four-letter-word tirade on Tuesday morning after reports surfaced that Israel had violated the ceasefire agreement brokered just 24 hours earlier. The episode also exposed that Trump is terrified of looking like another F word when it comes to the Iran-Israel conflict, according to Sky News correspondent James Mathews.

"Failure – it's the F word Donald Trump fears most," Matthews wrote in a column published on Tuesday.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified on Tuesday that, were it not for President Donald Trump's tariffs, they would have felt comfortable dropping interest rates.

Speaking to the House Financial Services Committee, Powell said, "If you just look at the basic data and don't look at the forecast, you would say that we would've continued cutting. The difference, of course, is, at this time, all forecasters are expecting, pretty soon, that some significant inflation will show up from tariffs. And we can't just ignore that."

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) tried to deflect on CNN when confronted with newly revealed intelligence that President Donald Trump's strike on Iranian nuclear sites barely affected the viability of their nuclear program — a report the White House has vehemently denied, even while admitting this is the assessment of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

"I'm interested to know your reaction to this, considering that President Trump has repeatedly said that the program was, quote, 'completely obliterated,'" said anchor Kasie Hunt.

The Defense Intelligence Agency is disputing President Donald Trump's assessment that Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated," CNN reported Tuesday. Now that the White House is trying to spin the news, press secretary Karoline Leavitt is drawing ridicule from online critics.

In a statement to CNN, Leavitt claimed, “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration."

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has become a thorn in President Donald Trump's side as the president attempts to usher his spending and tax bill through Congress.

Known as the "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act," the megabill could make wide-ranging changes to U.S. fiscal policy if it is passed. The bill seeks to extend Trump's tax cuts from his first administration and makes sweeping spending cuts to domestic programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and Medicaid, among others.

In a Tuesday appearance on Theo Von’s "This Past Weekend" podcast, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) recounted a bizarre phone call with President Donald Trump last year in which the then-presidential candidate gave his condolences for the passing of Massie’s wife.

“That’s a hard one, that’s a very hard one,” Trump told Massie over the phone regarding the passing of his wife, Massie said, putting on his best Trump impression.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told his GOP colleagues on Tuesday that they should stop worrying so much about the rising tide of constituents protesting the planned Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on tax cuts for the wealthy.

The speech came during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, reported by Punchbowl News' Andrew Desiderio.

President Donald Trump named some of his top supporters to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, or HSAC, and the group includes former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Bikers for Trump founder Chris Cox.

In an announcement on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security revealed that Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had made the selections.

President Donald Trump is falling further underwater with the American public after bombing Iran's nuclear sites over the weekend.

The New Republic's Greg Sargent noted in his Tuesday column that the post-bomb polls are being released, showing that Americans don't trust Trump to handle the attack appropriately. But for those who spent decades of GOP flag-waving and "freedom fries," repelling from support of a president during war is an evolution.