James Fishback, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump who until recently served as an adviser to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said today he is launching a super PAC to help counter Elon Musk’s potential political activity in next year’s midterm elections.

Fishback, who runs an investment firm, said he will provide $1 million in initial funding to the super PAC, which will be called FSD PAC, an abbreviation for Full Support for Donald.

He told CNN that the super PAC will work to back Trump’s agenda “and against anyone who threatens to sabotage that agenda,” including Musk.

The announcement by Fishback comes after Musk has threatened to bankroll a new political party and suggested he would back primary challengers to Republicans in Congress over their support for Trump’s domestic policy bill. He has argued the bill would undermine his efforts at DOGE, which sought to eliminate what he and others cast as wasteful spending by the federal government.

Asked how a new super PAC could effectively blunt the amount of money Musk could unleash in the midterms, Fishback said his PAC would center its work on building a ground game to reach voters in races in which Musk follows through on threats to challenge a Trump-endorsed candidate or bankroll a third-party hopeful or a Democrat.

“We are laser focused on just a handful of races that Elon would be involved in, as opposed to a national operation in all congressional seats,” he said.

Politico first reported details of the Fishback super PAC.

Reservations from Rules Committee members Rep. Ralph Norman and Rep. Chip Roy about the massive domestic policy bill passed by the Senate and moved back to the House are not expected to be a roadblock for the bill to come to the floor tomorrow.

Norman told CNN’s Annie Grayer he wants “to go back to the drawing board” and has conveyed his position to House Speaker Mike Johnson. Roy said he has “reservations” about the bill during the committee hearing today. But the committee can lose two Republican votes and still advance the bill as expected today so Norman and Roy’s potential defections are not expected to impact the outcome.

Norman and Roy were placed on the committee as part of the deal former Speaker Kevin McCarthy made with conservatives to secure his speakership in 2023 so the fiscal hawks could have a bigger say in such matters, but the rest of the committee generally is expected to side with speaker’s office. Rep. Thomas Massie, a known opponent of the bill and a recent target of attacks from President Donald Trump, was removed from the committee in January.

However, if Norman and Roy do both decide to vote against the bill on the floor, as Norman has said he would, it does make the math tight for Johnson to get final passage across the finish line. Assuming perfect attendance on both sides of the aisle, Johnson can only lose three votes and still pass the bill Republicans are trying to get to the president’s desk for the self-imposed July 4 deadline.

Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that he’ll have to “play the cards that are dealt to me,” when asked how he would handle a potential revolt from conservative House Republicans on a key procedural vote for President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill.

Several House conservatives have signaled they have serious problems with the Senate-passed version of the package and could vote to block the bill from advancing. A key procedural vote will take place on the House floor when the chamber votes on the rule for the bill.

Pressed on how the talks are going with conservatives, Johnson would not rule out cutting deals to get their support.

“Well, look, I’m having lots of discussion with lots of members about lots of ideas, so we’ll see. But we need to move this, this process to a conclusion. And we’re committed to doing that and on as quick a timetable as possible. So, stay tuned,” he said.

Johnson is under significant pressure to make sure that any deals don’t change the text of this package, otherwise it would have to be sent back to the Senate, who are on recess until next week.

The Speaker also acknowledged that flight delays and the weather are still a concern for attendance tomorrow.

“Yeah, we’re monitoring the weather closely. We have to figure that out,” he said. Asked if he thinks everyone can get in town in time to kick off votes in the morning, Johnson added, “We’re not sure yet. There’s a lot of delays right now, so that’s part of the problem.”

Elon Musk has taken aim at President Donald Trump’s signature piece of legislation known as the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” Musk opposes the multi-trillion-dollar debt increase the bill would bring. Trump fired back, claiming Musk gets “more subsidy than any human being in history” from the US government.

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President Donald Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought told CNN today that the White House wants the House of Representatives to pass the Senate-passed version of Trump’s domestic policy bill and send it to his desk to sign into law.

“We need to pass this bill and get it to the president’s desk and we’re on a limited timeframe,” Vought said in a follow-up exchange.

While House Speaker Mike Johnson has urged his conference to unite and “finish the job” in time for Trump’s self-imposed July 4 deadline, Vought acknowledged opposition from some hardliners, telling Collins the White House will focus on continuing “to educate the facts” of the bill to lawmakers.

Vought also downplayed comments from Elon Musk, the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Trump ally who has threatened to support primary challenges to lawmakers who’ve backed the bill, telling CNN he believes Musk is “wrong.”

“Obviously, you know, Elon has complicated views with regard to this bill,” Vought said. “But, you know, to the extent that we’re going to keep messaging through it… we’re going to get to a good place this week.”

House GOP Rep. Ralph Norman, who sits on the influential Rules Committee, told CNN he is against the Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill.

Norman said he has met with House Speaker Mike Johnson and communicated his position, which creates a significant problem for House GOP leaders. They can only afford to lose three Republican votes on the floor, assuming full attendance and unified Democratic opposition.

But when asked what the plan is, he replied: “I have no idea.”

The bill is currently being considered by the Rules Committee, which will dictate under what terms the legislation heads to the House floor.

A senior White House official brushed off the criticism of Trump’s agenda bill from billionaire Elon Musk today, saying those in the administration were not focused on it.

“No one really cares what he says anymore,” the source said, adding that it was unclear to officials in the White House if something had happened that spurred Musk’s latest round of attacks after it appeared he had backed off the issue.

Two Republicans close to the White House said that it was also unclear how Musk’s threats might play out in the midterm elections.

“Of course, members don’t want to be primaried,” one of the sources said. “It’s unclear if he’s actually going to get involved. A few weeks ago he apologized and called Trump.”

Trump and Musk had gotten into a more intense back-and-forth last month, trading personal jabs publicly and on social media. Musk said later he regretted some of his posts.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise warned that members should not try to change the president’s domestic policy bill as leaders aim for final passage tomorrow morning, saying it could be “what collapses the entire thing.”

Several members — including House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris and Reps. Keith Self and Marlin Stutzman — have already voiced opposition to the Senate-passed version of the bill.

Scalise said members who are questioning whether changes can be made to the bill are “getting the realization that even if you make that change that you want, it’s going to adversely affect the bill for a large enough group to bring it down.”

Still, Scalise was optimistic about the bill’s chances of passing tomorrow: “I’m very confident.”

President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised the Senate passage of his domestic agenda bill, urging House Republicans to unite and ignore “occasional grandstanders.”

“It is no longer a ‘House Bill’ or a ‘Senate Bill”. It is everyone’s Bill. There is so much to be proud of, and EVERYONE got a major Policy WIN,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump also claimed that “Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security Benefits are not being cut, but are being STRENGTHENED and PROTECTED from the Radical and Destructive Democrats by eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse from those Programs.” And he reiterated that he wants it on his desk before the Fourth of July, though he’s recently waffled on that date as a hard deadline.

“To my GOP friends in the House: Stay UNITED, have fun, and Vote ‘YAY,’” Trump concluded his post, using a different spelling than the typical “yea” that indicates a vote to support the bill.

On a call with reporters, a senior White House official said Trump would be “deeply involved” as the House considers the bill, as leadership pushes for a vote tomorrow.

“The president’s already been working the phones on this front and is going to continue to work the phones going forward,” the official said.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said “all legislative tools and options are on the table” when asked if his caucus would use procedural motions to delay passage of President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda.

“We have a leadership conversation at 5:15 today, and then we’ll have a caucus meeting at 6. All legislative tools and options are on the table,” he told reporters.

Asked if he would use his “magic minute,” Jeffries repeated: “all procedurals and legislative options are on the table.” The so-called magic minute allows party leaders in the House to speak as long as they wish on the floor.

Jeffries said he expects full Democratic attendance and unified opposition for the floor vote.

“Every single House Democrat is strongly opposed to this GOP tax scam, this disgusting abomination,” he said.

Republican senators are offering their perspectives after the chamber passed President Donald Trump’s massive domestic agenda bill.

Here’s what some are saying:

The House Rules Committee has taken up the Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda bill, as Republicans race to meet the president’s July 4 deadline.

This process could go for hours.

If the measure passes out of the Rules Committee, the House is expected to meet at 9 a.m. ET tomorrow to begin debating the legislation. Right now, GOP leaders are anticipating two sets of votes: one procedural to pass the rule, and the second on final passage. Timing is up in the air, especially as Democrats could further hold up the process with delay tactics that force additional voters.

Some House Republicans are privately discussing whether to block the bill from coming to the floor at all, which they could achieve by voting down the so-called rule vote that comes before final passage in the House, according to two people familiar with the discussions. But it’s not yet clear if they can withstand pressure from House Speaker Mike Johnson and Trump himself.

So far, multiple key House lawmakers are refusing to say how they’ll commit to the Senate bill. Johnson believes he can land the votes but it will take a ferocious whip effort — and likely help from Trump himself.

New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who is closely tracking the Senate GOP language on Medicaid, told CNN in a text message he is in the “process of evaluating.”

Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, a GOP hardliner who has pushed for more deficit reduction, told CNN via text: “I’m weighing my options now. Taking off for dc. I will see what the Senate passed.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed the passage of President Donald Trump’s landmark policy bill and said that “Senate Republicans betrayed the American people and covered the Senate in utter shame.”

Schumer repeatedly referenced Tillis’ retirement announcement while accusing Republicans of “somberness” over the bill’s passage, as he warned of electoral consequences. Tillis announced Sunday that he would not run for reelection next year, a day after he was one of only two Republicans who voted against advancing Trump’s sweeping agenda bill.

The Democratic leader touted his party’s efforts to fight the legislation, pointing to wins with the Senate parliamentarian. And he argued that “we broke through with the American people,” highlighting polling on the bill.

The New York Democrat also seized on Republicans’ intense courtship of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s swing vote and the legislative offers made to try to secure her support.

“We found out that Senate Democrats successfully fought a provision that the Senate Republicans were trying to get — were using to try and get Sen. Murkowski’s vote. The Medicaid provision in question was a handwritten parenthetical notation — not even disclosed to the Dems — that created a special new preference for Alaska. We fought and we won. This is a polar payoff. And it should not have stood, and it didn’t,” Schumer said.

President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda bill contains a down payment for a new air traffic control system, but it isn’t enough to cover all the aging infrastructure the Department of Transportation plans to replace.

The bill includes a $12.5 billion allocation for air traffic control modernization, which has been in the spotlight since controllers faced a handful of communications and radar outages with pilots approaching or departing Newark Liberty International Airport.

In May, the DOT announced its plans to build a new nationwide air traffic control system.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy thanked the Senate and Vice President JD Vance, who cast the tie-breaking vote, for passing the bill in a post on X.

Airlines for America, which lobbies for US Airlines, voiced its support for the passing of the bill, stating, “We urge the House of Representatives to quickly pass this legislation so President Trump can sign the One Big Beautiful Bill into law, begin the work of upgrading our ATC system and revitalize our airspace.”

While $12.5 billion is a start to the modernization plan, the DOT and Duffy have yet to put a price tag on the project but estimated it will cost in the “tens of billions.”

The new plan will replace “core” infrastructure, which includes radar, software, hardware and telecommunications networks, including the copper wiring that failed, impacting flights at Newark. Duffy has pledged to “come before the Congress every quarter” with an update of what’s been built and how much has been spent.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune acknowledged today that it will be a “challenge” for the House to pass Donald Trump’s massive policy agenda bill, but said he ultimately believes the chamber will be able to send it to the president’s desk.

“I appreciate the narrow margins they have over there, the challenge the speaker and his team have in front of them, but I think we gave a really strong product. I think we took what they sent us and strengthened and improved upon it,” he continued. House Speaker Mike Johnson has a historically narrow majority in the chamber.

He added that’s he’s “hopeful” that when House members “deliberate about how they want to handle it, they’ll find the votes that are necessary to pass it,” Thune said.

Asked about his message to Republicans like Sen. Thom Tillis, who are concerned about impacts of Medicaid cuts in their states, Thune noted that Tillis had his “own views” on the issue, and “we respect all of our colleagues.” Thune said he believes the Medicaid changes will “strengthen and improve” the program.

Thune said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who was the key GOP vote in getting the bill across the finish line, “obviously came to her own conclusion.”

“I’m just grateful that at the end of the day, she concluded what the rest of us did, or at least most of the rest of us did, and that is that this was the right direction for the future of our country,” he said.

After more than 24 hours of painstaking negotiations over changes to President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package, Senate Republicans narrowly passed the bill with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.

The progress at times appeared to be in flux, even hours before the final vote. The burst of movement from the Senate GOP came after a full 24 hours of intense negotiating between Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Vance and GOP holdouts, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

The legislation now moves to the House, where it faces a high-stakes vote and Speaker Mike Johnson has a slim majority.

“Wow, music to my ears,” Trump said when a reporter broke the news to him. While visiting a new migrant detention facility in Florida, Trump projected easy passage of his megabill in the House, downplaying concerns about Americans who might lose health care coverage and suggesting instead the measure would only eliminate waste from government programs.

GOP leaders in the House reiterated their commitment to pass the bill, saying in a statement after it passed the Senate that they planned to “consider the bill immediately for final passage and put it on President Trump’s desk by the Fourth of July.”

GOPSens. Rand Paul, Susan Collins and Thom Tillis voted “no” with Democrats on the legislation.Collins said in a lengthy statement that she voted against the bill “primarily” because of her concerns about Medicaid cuts. “While I continue to support the tax relief I voted for in 2017, I could not support these Medicaid changes and other issues,” she wrote in a thread on X. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski — who voted to approve the bill after intense negotiations with GOP leaders — told reporters afterward that she is not happy with the measure and hopes the House sends it back.

The Senate adopted several GOP-led amendments to Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski — who placed a critical “yes” vote for President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda bill after intense negotiations to win her support — told reporters afterward that she is not happy with the measure and hopes the House sends it back.

“We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination,” Murkowksi told reporters.

Asked by CNN why she decided to vote for the bill despite her concerns with it, she said: “Because we have two options here, right? Kill it and it’s gone.”

Reflecting on the process, Murkowski added:

She said she was also concerned with the compressed timeline for action.

“I think rather than taking the deliberative approach to good legislating, we rushed to get a product out,” she said.

Republican leaders doubled the size of the rural hospital fund at the last minute to win over holdouts like Murkowski.

The Alaskan senator said she struggled “mightily” with the impacts cutting Medicaid and SNAP would have in her state and said was focused on getting her Republican colleagues to understand how detrimental adding work requirements would be.

President Donald Trump projected easy passage of his megabill in the House of Representatives, downplaying concerns about Americans who might lose health care coverage and suggesting instead the measure would only eliminate waste from government programs.

Pressed on his previous commitments not to cut government social safety net programs like Medicaid, Trump downplayed analyses that say millions of Americans could lose health coverage if his bill becomes law.

“It’s going to be a very much smaller number than that, and that number will be waste, fraud and abuse,” he said when pressed about a figure offered by the Congressional Budget Office — 11.8 million — of people who would lose health coverage, based on the version of the bill introduced in the Senate.

He said Republicans had been relatively lenient on cutting Medicaid compared to harsher options.

Trump said he didn’t have a particular number of Americans who would lose coverage to offer as an alternative to the CBO figure.

“I’m not seeing a number, but I know it’s much less than the number you gave,” he said, adding: “We really were very, very cognizant of three things: Social Security, we’re going to take care of it beautifully; Medicare; and Medicaid, and we are going to save it, whereas the Democrats are going to — you won’t have it.”

GOP Sen. Susan Collins said in a lengthy statement Tuesday that she voted against President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill “primarily” because of her concerns about Medicaid cuts.

“While I continue to support the tax relief I voted for in 2017, I could not support these Medicaid changes and other issues,” she wrote in a thread on X.

Collins was one of three Republicans to vote against the bill. She said a provision creating a fund to help rural hospitals was not “sufficient” to offset other Medicaid changes.

“I strongly support extending the tax relief for families and small businesses. My vote against this bill stems primarily from the harmful impact it will have on Medicaid, affecting low-income families and rural health care providers like our hospitals and nursing homes,” she wrote.

“I am pleased that the bill contains a special fund that I proposed to provide some assistance to our rural hospitals, but it is not sufficient to offset the other changes in the Medicaid system.”

In his first reaction to the Senate’s passage of his domestic policy bill, President Donald Trump called it “music to my ears” while holding a roundtable discussion at a new migrant detention facility in Florida.

“Wow, music to my ears,” Trump said when a reporter broke the news to him.

“I was also wondering how we’re doing, because I know this is primetime, it shows that I care about you,” he added.

The president also commended Vice President JD Vance, who cast the tie-breaking vote.

“He’s doing a good job,” Trump said.

More on the Senate vote: The bill passed in a 51-50 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky voting with Democrats against the measure.

The legislation now moves to the House, where it faces a high-stakes vote and House Speaker Mike Johnson has a razor-thin majority.

CNN’s David Wright and Aileen Graef contributed reporting to this post.