{"id":150603,"date":"2025-05-22T17:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/house-passes-trumps-sweeping-tax-cut-bill-and-sends-it-to-senate-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:07:05","slug":"house-passes-trumps-sweeping-tax-cut-bill-and-sends-it-to-senate-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/house-passes-trumps-sweeping-tax-cut-bill-and-sends-it-to-senate-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"House passes Trump\u2019s sweeping tax-cut bill and sends it to Senate – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Measure would tighten eligibility for health and food programs for the poor and could add $3.8tn to US debt
Analysis: Promises of an American \u2018golden age\u2019 \u2013 that conveniently ends with Trump\u2019s presidency<\/a>
Republicans in the House of Representatives<\/a> won passage on Thursday of a major bill to enact Donald Trump\u2019s tax and spending priorities while adding trillions of dollars to the US debt and potentially prevent millions of Americans from accessing federal safety net benefits.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was approved in the early morning hours along party lines by the slim Republican majority, with 215 votes in favor and 214 against. Its passage ended weeks of negotiations that drew into question the GOP\u2019s ability to find agreement on Trump\u2019s top legislative priority in a chamber they control by just three seats.
\u201cI give glory to God. I mean, there\u2019s a lot of prayer that brought this together, I\u2019m just going to be very blunt about it. There was a few moments over the last week when it looked like the thing might fall apart,\u201d the House speaker, Mike Johnson<\/a>, said after the bill\u2019s passage.
Trump cheered the vote and encouraged the Senate to pass the measure quickly. \u201cThis is arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that will ever be signed in the History of our Country!\u201d he wrote on Truth Social. \u201cNow, it\u2019s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work, and send this Bill to my desk AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! There is no time to waste.\u201d
The bill will make good on several of Trump\u2019s campaign promises, including extending tax cuts for individuals and corporations, and sunsetting clean energy incentives enacted under Joe Biden. It also relieves taxes on tips, overtime and car loan interest, offers parents $1,000 if they open \u201cTrump accounts\u201d for their children and expands a deduction for older taxpayers \u2013 though only for as long as Trump remains<\/a> in office.
The bill also pays for construction of a wall along the border with Mexico, and new staff and facilities for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
To offset its costs, the GOP has approved funding cuts and new work requirements for Medicaid, which provides healthcare for poor and disabled Americans, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap). Analysts fear these changes will bar millions from these benefits.
Even with the cuts, the measure is expected to cost $3.8tn over the next 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. Its passage in the House comes less than a week after credit ratings agency Moody\u2019s stripped the US<\/a> of its top-notch triple-A rating and warned of its large national debt and federal budget deficit.
House Democratic leaders have decried the bill as a \u201ctax scam\u201d that \u201cis deeply unpopular, which is why Republicans made every effort to advance it during the dead of night\u201d.
\u201cThis fight is just beginning, and House Democrats will continue to use every tool at our disposal to ensure that the GOP Tax Scam is buried deep in the ground, never to rise again,\u201d the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, the whip, Katherine Clark, and the caucus chair, Pete Aguilar, said.
The bill also drew rare condemnation from Barack Obama. \u201cRight now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their healthcare. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage and raise costs for working-class families,\u201d the former president said. He encouraged people to contact their senators to oppose the measure.
Democratic lawmakers\u2019 options are limited. The party is in the minority in both chambers, and Republicans are following the budget reconciliation procedure to prevent it from facing a filibuster in the Senate.
The biggest obstacle the bill faces are disputes among Republicans themselves. In the days leading up to the vote, Johnson had to reach agreements with lawmakers representing Democratic-led states who demanded a bigger deduction for state and local taxes (Salt). He also had to woo moderates wary of cutting too deeply to safety net programs and rightwing lawmakers demanding more cost savings.
The speaker appears to have bridged those divides, aided by a visit to the Capitol<\/a> from Trump on Tuesday. Moderates backed down after some cuts were nixed, while lawmakers who held out over Salt won an enlarged tax break. Johnson also managed to corral most fiscal conservatives, with Kentucky\u2019s Thomas Massie and Ohio\u2019s Warren Davidson the sole no votes on the bill, both of whom cited its impact on the deficit.
\u201cThis bill is a debt bomb ticking,\u201d Massie said as the bill was debated. \u201cWe\u2019re not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic tonight. We\u2019re putting coal in the boiler and setting a course for the iceberg.\u201d
The legislation now heads to the Senate, where Republicans say they would like to have it on Trump\u2019s desk by 4 July, the Independence Day holiday.<\/p>\n

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