The United States House of Representatives on Thursday (3/7) passed the One Big Beautiful Bill proposed by President Donald Trump with a vote of 218 in favor to 214 against.
The bill will be sent to the president's desk for his signature by the July 4 deadline set by Trump. Two Republican representatives, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, voted against the bill.
The House had approved an initial draft of the bill in May and sent it to the Senate. The draft received many revisions from the Senate, but senators approved the draft by a narrow vote when Vice President JD Vance broke the deadlock on Tuesday (1/7).
The tax and spending bill includes tax cuts and increased funding for the military and border security. The contentious issue is that it is expected to add $3.3 trillion to the already high national debt and strip millions of people of their right to Medicaid and food stamps.
It is Trump’s first major legislative achievement in his second term as president. Republicans in Congress are widely divided over the bill, which passed the Senate and House of Representatives by voice vote after the president and his allies on Capitol Hill pressured dissenting Republicans to support it.
As he signed the legislation to the president, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that with the bill’s passage, “we have to get serious about fixing every area of public policy.”
"Everything has been an absolute disaster under the Biden-Harris, radical, sober, progressive Democrats, and we are doing the best we can, in one big, beautiful bill, to fix as many of them as we possibly can," Johnson said.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praised the bill's passage Thursday, saying in a statement that President Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill delivers on the common-sense agenda that nearly 80 million Americans voted for: the largest middle-class tax cut in history, permanent border security, massive military funding, and the restoration of fiscal sanity."
"The pro-growth policies in this historic legislation will spark an economic boom the likes of which we have never seen. President Trump looks forward to signing the One Big, Beautiful Bill into law to officially usher in America's Golden Age," Leavitt added.
He said the signing ceremony for the bill is planned to be held at the White House on Friday (4/7) at 5 p.m. local time or Saturday (5/7) at 4 a.m., which is the US Independence Day holiday.
The White House posted on its website that "Today, the largest middle-class tax cut in American history, and much more, is headed to President Trump's desk."
"Time and again, Democrats have tried to block historic tax relief, increased border security, higher wages, an expanded Child Tax Credit, No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, No Tax on Social Security, savings accounts for newborns, and much more, but, time and again, President Trump and Republicans have fought and won for the American people," the White House said in the post.
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