Procedural vote puts legislation on track for final passage by July 4 deadline set by Trump.
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After marathon hours of haggling and backroom negotiations, the House voted early Thursday to advance Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to a final vote, leaving the president at the threshold of securing his signature legislative agenda by the Fourth of July.
Holdout fiscal conservatives appeared to fall in line as the chamber voted 219-213 in the wee hours of the morning to begin debate on the legislation that delivers trillions in tax cuts for Americans, makes the first significant cuts in federal spending in decades, and fundamentally reshapes the size and scope of federal government with initiatives like Medicaid and food stamp reform.
