Trump promising benefits to working class Americans with ‘Big, Beautiful Bill'
The bill is promising benefits to working class Americans as well as reducing taxes, increasing border security and funding national defence.
'When you're looking for a Big Beautiful Bill what you want are the core principals of the Make America Great Again movement, the America first policy agenda and this is exactly what it is and what it does,' Mr Gidley told Sky News Australia.
'It is a bill that has something for everybody.'
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