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What made it into the Senate’s final ‘big, beautiful bill’ and what didn’t
Washington Examiner ^ | July 1, 2025 4:10 pm | Samantha-Jo Roth , Gabrielle M. Etzel , Callie Patteson and Maydeen Merino

Posted on 07/02/2025 3:00:37 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

After weeks of infighting, last-minute rewrites, and a marathon vote-a-rama, Senate Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill on Tuesday, setting up a final showdown in the House.

Vice President JD Vance cast the tiebreaking vote after three Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Rand Paul (R-KY), broke ranks to oppose the bill. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers trillions in tax cuts while slashing funding for Medicaid, food assistance, and clean energy.

It also includes a host of conservative priorities, ranging from abortion restrictions to expanded fossil fuel development.

The final package reflects a bruising intraparty fight, with several controversial provisions added, scrapped, or watered down in the final hours. Here’s a look at some of the key things that made it in and what got left on the cutting room floor

PHASING-OUT SUBSIDIES FOR RENEWABLES AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Changes to phase-outs of clean energy tax credits in the bill remained central to the final hours of debate among Republicans, as hard-line conservatives have called for strict, swift cuts and more centrist lawmakers pushed for extended wind-downs to avoid major market and investment disruptions.

The now-passed Senate bill includes steep cuts for these tax credits, ending incentives for wind and solar projects placed in service, meaning operational and plugged into the grid, by the end of 2027.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biasedhitpiece; demnarrative

1 posted on 07/02/2025 3:00:37 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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Don’t believe the untrue narrative about no taxes on social security being a huge Trump lie.

Since the vehicle instituting taxing S.S. was NOT a budget reconciliation bill, removing the taxes on S.S. via a budget reconciliation bill is illegal.

The current bill weaseled around the monetary effect by simply in increasing the 65+ deduction, so it’s basically a close “wash”.


2 posted on 07/02/2025 3:21:10 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

The author’s word choices in your excerpt tell me I don’t desire to read a biased hit piece.

“SLASHING Medicare” was all i needed to see...


3 posted on 07/02/2025 3:22:03 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Blueflag

“slashing funding for Medicaid”


4 posted on 07/02/2025 3:24:51 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: linMcHlp

NYS cost shares Medicaid with counties.

Property taxes are sky high.

Taking illegals and fraudsters off the Medicaid rolls will be celebrated by property tax payers in NYS.


5 posted on 07/02/2025 3:37:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

You should have stayed away.
Your B.S. still stinks.🤡


6 posted on 07/02/2025 3:38:11 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!s)
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To: mewzilla

We’ll see if the counties lower their levy.


7 posted on 07/02/2025 3:53:02 AM PDT by Fury
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Still waaayyy too much spending.

While I understand its a reconcilliation bill, there is too much porky goodness in it.


8 posted on 07/02/2025 3:56:43 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: linMcHlp

Oops. Medicaid = state; Medicare = Feds.

Just poured my second cup...


9 posted on 07/02/2025 3:59:04 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Fury

Last I knew NYS still wasn’t honoring the Supreme Court’s home equity theft decision, so I’m not holding out any hope saving will be passed along to taxpayers.


10 posted on 07/02/2025 4:03:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Blueflag

Don’t forget Medicare/Medicaid dual eligibles.


11 posted on 07/02/2025 4:03:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Pay $1 to read this? No thanks


12 posted on 07/02/2025 4:08:53 AM PDT by albie
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Mornin’ Tokyo....Didn’t miss your garbage posts


13 posted on 07/02/2025 4:33:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

RESCISSION bills cutting spending only take a simple majority of the House and Senate.

focus on Rescission bills


14 posted on 07/02/2025 4:34:21 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Bulwinkle, a.k.a. Daffy Duck )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

This bill has a lot of good stuff in it. We’ll only find out later about most of the bad stuff. (They add those crappola items to the thousands of pages of the bill at the last minute to avoid giving time to build opposition to them.)

I don’t like running up our massive debt further, but I take Scott Bessent as his word that he can grow the economy out of the deficit spending. (Fingers crossed.)


15 posted on 07/02/2025 5:00:59 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Bulwinkle

“RESCISSION bills cutting spending only take a simple majority of the House and Senate...
focus on Rescission bills”

Great tip, thank you :)


16 posted on 07/02/2025 6:17:32 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Please pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Suppressors got drop kicked.


17 posted on 07/02/2025 6:22:55 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel


18 posted on 07/02/2025 6:41:26 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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