Congressional Republicans voted 218-214 to go President Trump’s controversial $4.5 trillion funds invoice Thursday after pulling an all-nighter to ship a significant Independence Day political win for the White Home.
After twisting the arms of some GOP holdouts, Home leaders wrapped up the Massive Stunning Invoice that features large tax cuts for the rich and draconian cuts to Medicaid and SNAP meals help forward of Trump’s July 4 deadline.
“We are going to make this country stronger, safer and more prosperous than ever before,” an ebullient Speaker Mike Johnson stated to raucous cheers from Republican lawmakers. “Are you tired of winning yet?”
“America is back,” he added.
US Home Speaker Mike Johnson (C), Republican of Louisiana, celebrates with fellow Republican lawmakers after the Home handed the “Big Beautiful Bill Act” on the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 3, 2025. in Washington, DC, on July 3, 2025. (Photograph by JEMAL COUNTESS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Simply two Republicans, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), bucked Trump and their leaders to vote towards it.
Democratic Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries delivered a record-setting marathon speech beginning earlier than dawn in a doomed last-ditch effort to stall enactment of the invoice.
The Brooklyn lawmaker broke a document by talking for eight hours and 45 minutes earlier than stepping apart and permitting the GOP vote to maneuver forward.
President Donald Trump. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
“This reckless Republican budget is an immoral document,” Jeffries thundered as Democratic lawmakers cheered. “Everyone should vote against it because of how it attacks children and seniors and everyday Americans.”
Regardless of the howls of opposition, passing the invoice quantities to a sweeping win for Trump and his Republican allies who cobbled collectively an extended record of GOP priorities into an 800-plus web page package deal that they pushed by way of each homes of Congress with the narrowest of majorities.
However polls say it’s unpopular with nearly all of voters, and Democrats make no secret of their plan to middle anger over the tough cuts of their marketing campaign to retake Congress within the 2026 midterm elections.
On the coronary heart of the package deal is an extension of the $4.5 trillion in Trump tax breaks from 2017 that will have expired with out motion. There are additionally different goodies like permitting staff to deduct suggestions and extra time pay, and a $6,000 deduction for many older adults incomes lower than $75,000 a yr.
It raises the cap on deducting SALT, or state and native taxes, to $40,000, though the profit sunsets after 5 years in a funds gimmick to make it look less expensive. That was a key precedence of suburban Republicans, particularly within the New York space.
Flanked by fellow Home Democrats from New York State, U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks speaks out towards the One, Massive, Stunning Invoice Act at a press convention on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Pictures)
There’s additionally $350 billion for Trump’s mass deportation plan and border safety.
A number of the prices are offset by $1.2 trillion in cutbacks to meals stamps and particularly Medicaid, largely by imposing new cumbersome work necessities, together with for some mother and father and older individuals.
Nonpartisan analysts say it would knock 11 million individuals off their medical health insurance and shut many hospitals that depend upon their funding.
The invoice will increase the federal debt by $3.3 trillion and lifts the debt ceiling, however Republican funds hawks swallowed onerous and voted for it anyway.
Initially Printed: July 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM EDT
