Trump bill live: US House holds final vote on ‘big beautiful' tax cuts
'Largest tax cuts in history and a booming economy vs biggest tax increase in history, and a failed economy,' Trump wrote just after midnight local time. 'What are the Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove??? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY, AND IT'S COSTING YOU VOTES!!!'
Shortly after, the president added in block capitals: 'For Republicans, this should be an easy yes vote. Ridiculous!!!'
A key procedural vote wrapped up at about 3.20am ET (8.20am UK time) after Republican sceptics relented and voted yes.
The official White House X account released a tongue-in-cheek video last night promoting the bill as a solution to a bad hair day.
The video showed before and after shots of several women undergoing makeovers as a narrator listed the benefits of the legislation to everyday Americans. 'Are you tired of government promises falling flat? Do you go through an outrageous amount of stress just trying to get by?' a narrator said. 'Then bump it up with 'one big, beautiful bill' and get that relief fast and easy.'
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Over the course of a chaotic night in Congress, Trump and Mike Johnson, the House speaker, managed to persuade sceptical holdouts within the Republican caucus to drop their opposition to the president's $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill, and vote for its progression to a final vote.
The One Big Beautiful Bill, which runs to some 887 pages, includes tax breaks, spending cuts, a rollback of solar energy tax credits and a boost for the military and border defence.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the bill would add nearly $3.3 trillion onto the nation's debt from 2025 to 2034.
For his part, overnight Trump posted on Truth Social: 'What are the Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove??? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY, AND IT'S COSTING YOU VOTES!!!'
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, has delayed the final vote by talking for more than three hours.
Jeffries took to the floor of Congress at 4.53am using a tool known as the 'magic minute' that allows leaders unlimited time to speak. 'I feel the obligation, Mr Speaker, to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time to tell the stories of the American people and that's exactly what I intend to do,' he said.
He has been reading from several binders of notes and shows no sign of ending his speech soon.
Trump's attempt to strong-arm Republican senators to vote for the bill was nearly foiled by an unexpected problem on Wednesday: the weather.
Members of Congress shared pictures of themselves rushing back to Washington before the vote.
Wearing pyjamas and holding her dog, the senator Nancy Mace, a Trump loyalist from South Carolina, shared a livestream of her overnight road trip to support the president. 'We made it with an hour to go,' she said, emerging bleary-eyed from a van in Washington on Wednesday morning.
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President Trump has been struggling to cajole Republicans to vote for trillions of dollars of tax cuts after a key ally described the marquee legislation as a 'shitshow'.
Republican rebels were invited to the White House on Wednesday for last-minute talks. Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker, said there had been 'very positive' progress but conceded to CNN that 'we can't make everyone 100 per cent happy'.
'I can't imagine they have the votes,' the Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene told the War Room podcast hosted by the former Trump strategist Steve Bannon. 'There's no way that Johnson has the votes in the House for this.'
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