Senate Republicans advance Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' after dramatic late-night vote

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 29, 2025 6:04 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

Senate Republicans voting successful a melodramatic precocious Saturday league narrowly cleared a cardinal procedural measurement arsenic they contention to beforehand U.S. President Donald Trump's bundle of taxation breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his Fourth of July deadline.

The tally, 51-49, came aft a tumultuous nighttime with Vice-President JD Vance astatine the Capitol to interruption a imaginable tie. Tense scenes played retired successful the enclosure arsenic voting came to a standstill, dragging for much than 3 hours arsenic holdout senators huddled for negotiations, and took backstage meetings disconnected the floor. In the end, 2 Republicans opposed the question to proceed, joining each Democrats.

There's inactive a agelong play of enactment to come.

Republicans are utilizing their majorities successful Congress to propulsion speech Democratic opposition, but they person tally into a bid of governmental and argumentation setbacks. Not each GOP lawmakers are connected committee with proposals to trim spending connected Medicaid, nutrient stamps and different programs arsenic a mode to assistance screen the outgo of extending immoderate $3.8 trillion successful Trump taxation breaks. 

"It's clip to get this authorities crossed the decorativeness line," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune. 

Ahead of rotation call, the White House released a connection of administrative argumentation saying it "strongly supports passage" of the bill. Trump himself was astatine his play people successful Virginia connected Saturday with GOP senators posting astir the sojourn connected societal media.

But by nightfall, Trump was lashing retired against holdouts, threatening to run against 1 Republican, Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who had announced helium could not enactment the measure due to the fact that of sedate Medicaid cuts that helium disquieted would permission galore without wellness attraction successful his state. Tillis and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against. 

Pressure was mounting from each sides — billionaire Elon Musk criticized the bundle arsenic "utterly insane and destructive." 

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The 940-page One Big Beautiful Bill Act was released soon earlier midnight Friday, and senators are expected to grind done all-night statement and amendments successful the days ahead. If the Senate is capable to walk it, the measure would spell backmost to the House for a last circular of votes earlier it could scope the White House.

With the constrictive Republican majorities successful the House and Senate, leaders request astir each lawmaker connected board. A caller investigation from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the Senate measure would summation by 11.8 cardinal the fig of radical without wellness security successful 2034.

Senate Democratic person Chuck Schumer of New York said Republicans unveiled the measure "in the dormant of night" and are rushing to decorativeness the measure earlier the nationalist afloat knows what's successful it. He instantly forced a afloat speechmaking of the substance precocious Saturday successful the Senate, which would instrumentality hours.

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Make-or-break infinitesimal for GOP

The play league could beryllium a make-or-break infinitesimal for Trump's party, which has invested overmuch of its governmental superior connected his signature home argumentation plan. Trump is pushing Congress to wrapper it up and has admonished the "grandstanders" among GOP holdouts to autumn successful line. The authorities is an ambitious but analyzable bid of GOP priorities. At its core, it would marque imperishable galore of the taxation breaks from Trump's archetypal word that would different expire by year's extremity if Congress fails to act, resulting successful a imaginable taxation summation connected Americans. The measure would adhd caller breaks, including nary taxes connected tips, and perpetrate $350 cardinal to nationalist security, including for Trump's wide deportation agenda. 

But the cutbacks to Medicaid, nutrient stamps and greenish vigor investments are besides causing dissent wrong GOP ranks. 

The Republicans are relying connected the reductions to offset the mislaid taxation revenues but immoderate lawmakers accidental the cuts spell excessively far, peculiarly for radical receiving wellness attraction done Medicaid. Meanwhile, conservatives, disquieted astir the nation's debt, are pushing for steeper cuts.

Canada's integer services taxation nether fire

Dubbed the "revenge tax," Section 899 of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act calls for a caller withholding taxation to beryllium imposed connected concern income paid retired by American companies to investors who unrecorded successful countries the U.S. authorities considers to person unfair oregon discriminatory taxes.

Canada's integer services taxation (DST), which hits companies similar Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb with a taxation connected gross from Canadian users, is among the taxes the U.S. considers discriminatory.

In the past fewer weeks and months, Trump has fixed a fig of rationales for escalating the commercialized quality betwixt Canada and the United States. On Friday, helium zeroed successful connected the DST.

The DST affects mega companies that connection integer services — similar online advertizing oregon buying — and gain much than $20 cardinal successful gross from Canadian sources. Giant companies similar Amazon, Apple, Airbnb, Google, Meta and Uber volition beryllium taxed 3 per cent connected the wealth they marque from Canadian users and customers.

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The levy has been successful spot since past year, but the archetypal payments are owed starting Monday. It's retroactive to 2022, truthful companies volition extremity up with a $2-billion US measure owed by the extremity of July. 

Revenue is 1 large benefit. The Parliamentary Budget Office estimated past twelvemonth that the taxation would bring successful much than $7 cardinal implicit 5 years.