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Posted on 05/22/2025 5:11:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
By Scott Wong, Sahil Kapur, Kyle Stewart and Syedah Asghar WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Thursday morning narrowly passed a massive domestic policy package, a major victory for President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., after weeks of heated negotiations within the GOP.
The multitrillion-dollar tax-cut and spending measure now heads to the Senate, where Republicans have vowed to change it.
Following hours of overnight debate, the vote on final passage in the House was 215-214, with two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio — joining all Democrats present in opposition.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., the leader of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, voted present. Reps. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., and David Schweikert, R-Ariz., did not vote.
Dubbed by Trump as the "big, beautiful bill," the legislation extends the president's expiring tax cuts passed in 2017 and contains an infusion of money to expand the military and carry out the president’s mass deportation plans. It also fulfills two of Trump's campaign promises: eliminating taxes on tips and overtime work.
The bill also slashes spending in other areas, including hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), while rescinding a series of clean energy tax credits passed by Democrats in 2022. And it raises the debt ceiling by $4 trillion.
"What we're going to do here this morning is truly historic, and it will make all the difference in the daily lives of hard working Americans. ... To put it simply, this bill gets Americans back to winning again, and it's been a long time coming," Johnson said in a floor speech before the vote.
But he acknowledged that there are more challenges to come, with the bill now heading to the Republican-led Senate.
"We're accomplishing a big thing here today, but we know this isn't the end of the road," Johnson said.
Congressional GOP leaders have said they want to send the final bill to Trump's desk for a signature by July 4.
The vote came after Republicans and Democrats sparred over the legislation during a marathon House Rules Committee hearing that began just after 1 a.m. ET Wednesday and wrapped 21 hours later, when the panel sent the bill to the floor.
The sweeping package included a series of last-minute changes to appease factions of GOP holdouts whose votes are essential in the slim House majority. Republicans can only spare three GOP defections on any vote in the face of unified Democratic opposition.
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A group of blue-state Republicans secured a larger state and local deduction (SALT) cap of $40,000 to bring home to their high-tax districts.
Always look at what was slipped in after midnight, less than 48 hours before the final vote.
In this case, it was the sale of something like 1.5 million acres of federal land in the West, with exemptions to environmental laws and the possibility of sale without auction in some cases.
Does that new SALT number apply to all states? (Assuming it does).
Why are we subsidizing the Democrats State taxes?...........
It might help me in Minnesota but yours is a great question. It seems inherently unfair.
Of course. But for all practical purposes, it only helps blue states. Governors Hochel, Pritsker, and Newsome are smiling now.
I live in a high prop tax state.
And I oppose the SALT cap.
It IS unfair.
And the SALT cap does nothing but enable high taxation.
Sounds like a disaster....
Trump defeated conservatism in the hope that a growing economy can fund the government while capital continues to replace labor, a process to be accelerated with AI and robotics. If an aging population doesn’t want to work, there will be structural problems particularly as technology pushes rising medical costs.
If you like politics or sausage it’s best that you don’t watch either being made................
Yeah true, seems DOGE was a waste of time and effort...was watching a interview of Musk this AM and when asked about it his tone was different...think he realizes that.
Good question. There should be no SALT deduction at all—much less subsidizing high tax blue states. It is ridiculous, over 90% of taxpayers take the standard deduction.
So they can stay in their failed states and not move to red areas and the south.
So DOGE was a waste of time then..
Yep, democrats and RINO’s made sure of that.
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“””Breaking — House passes big beautiful bill at 6:30 am this morning in 215-214 vote.”””
Congress reminds me of my college days. There were two kinds of students.
1. This student studied every night after class and stayed current with the assigned reading. On the night before a morning test this student went to bed early and woke refreshed and generally got a very good score on the test.
2. This student missed a lot of classes, spent more time playing around, and rarely read the assigned reading. On the night before the test, this student did an ‘all-nighter’, arrived at the test site bleary eyed, and generally got a very bad score on the test.
Congress has worn out their welcome with their ‘all-nighter’ theatrics..
Well then the die is cast and collapse is coming, maybe a little later but it is coming.
Think I would have preferred to let it crash sooner than later then..
The 10-year Treasury keeps rising.
Bond vigilantes are not under the control of the President or Congress. And it shows - thankfully.
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