As the media’s gaze fixes on the meltdown of President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s relationship, Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told Newsmax that the Senate is focused on working through the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” including blocking the sale of parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that will be needed for the Golden Dome missile defense system.

When asked on “Wake Up America” if he and his colleagues had identified changes to be made to the House version of the massive budget reconciliation bill, Rounds said they had already cleared the first hurdle.

“We’ve worked through one of them, I believe, and that is the House had sent over a version that was kind of a sidebar issue with regard to the sale of the electromagnetic spectrum, which was really being used by the Department of Defense and the intelligence community,” Rounds said Friday.

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