Breaking…US Senate Passes Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill….

It HAS a TON of changes from the US House version….

And the Senate members have hit the road going home….

If the House DOES NOT pass the Senate Bill….

Exactly?

Trump will NOT get what he wants by July 4th…

The bill is NOT what most Lawmakers of BOTH parties want….

VP Vance had to get the thing over the hump for the 51-50 vote passage…

It IS gonna cost Republicans votes and probably their House majority come next years Midterm Elections…

Senate Republicans passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” Tuesday, with help from Vice President Vance as a tie-breaker.

Why it matters: It’s a colossal achievement for Senate leadership and the White House. But the taxes, border and defense package still has to clear the House — where discontent has been building for days.

• The bill passed 51-50 after a grueling, multi-day process that kicked off Saturday evening and ended with a 24-hour vote-a-rama.
• GOP Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted with Democrats against the bill, requiring a tie-breaking vote from Vance.
• Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) ended up voting for the legislation after multiple rounds of overnight negotiations. Murkowski strolled out of Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) office shortly before 4am on Tuesday, without giving any indication of how she’d gotten to aye.

Zoom in: At the last moment, Senate GOP leaders doubled the size of a new fund aimed at improving rural health care access to $50 billion — a move aimed at securing Collins’ support.

• Collins earlier offered an amendment to increase the funding to $50 billion, but it was rejected 78 to 22, with most Democrats voting against it.
• An amendment to remove the 10-year moratorium on state regulation of AI passed 99-1, with only Tillis voting against it.
• Democrats forced votes on dozens of amendments on everything from bolstering Medicaid to gutting tax cuts for wealthy earners, all of which failed on the floor.

What to watch: House lawmakers have been raising alarms about the Senate’s changes, with conservatives decrying how much it would add to the deficit and moderates worried about its deeper cuts to Medicaid.

• Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is calling House Republicans back from recess and targeting a Wednesday vote to try to meet Trump’s July 4 deadline.
• Johnson said in a statement after the vote that the House would “work quickly” to clear the measure, adding, “House Republicans are ready to finish the job and put the One Big Beautiful Bill on President Trump’s desk in time for Independence Day.”
• The president and Vance have been closely involved in whipping support for the bill in the Senate — and their influence will be critical to winning over concerned House members, too.

Between the lines: The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill would add roughly $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years.

• The White House disputes the analysis, arguing it would instead decrease the deficit by over $5 trillion when combined with other growth efforts.
• CBO also estimates the changes to Medicaid would result in nearly 12 million fewer people with health insurance over the next decade.
• “Today, Senate Republicans betrayed the American people and covered the Senate in utter shame,” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters after the vote. “This vote will haunt Republicans for years to come.”

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• Recent polls have shown only 23-38% of American adults and voters support the legislation….

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Updates…

The Text of the Bill…

Senate Republicans have released an updated draft of their domestic-policy megabill ahead of final floor action.

The 887-page text is not expected to be the final legislation passed by the Senate; further revisions are being made in the last moments before the final amendment and passage of the bill….

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House GOPer’s…

Initial House Republican reaction IS NOT Good….

Trump WILL have bend some arms or things ain’t work…..

Two Republican members of the House Rules Committee blasted the Senate-passed GOP megabill hours before the panel meets to prepare the legislation for a final decisive vote.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) told reporters he currently opposes advancing the bill out of the Rules Committee after the Senate’s changes.

And Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a leader of the GOP’s ultra-conservative bloc, warned that the odds of House passage of the party’s megabill by July 4 “are hell of a lot lower than they were even 48 hours ago” based on what’s come out of the Senate.

He also blasted members of President Donald Trump’s administration who have publicly blasted arguments that the bill isn’t fiscally sound — an apparent reference to White House budget director Russ Vought and even Vice President JD Vance.

“That is garbage,” said Roy, a member of the House Rules Committee. He added that he believes the Senate bill violates a budget framework House conservatives negotiated earlier this year: “I don’t think it’s close, especially if you add interest.”

If a third Rules Committee Republican balks, Speaker Mike Johnson would have a big issue getting the Senate bill to the House floor. But GOP leaders were confident Tuesday morning that would not be a problem.

Politico…