{"id":171174,"date":"2025-07-01T13:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171174"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:50:13","slug":"big-beautiful-bill-clears-hurdle-expected-to-be-on-president-trumps-desk-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171174","title":{"rendered":"Big beautiful bill clears hurdle, expected to be on President Trump’s desk on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Senate passed President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”. Vice President JD Vance casted the tie breaking vote needed for it to go forward. It returns to the House, where Republicans are expected to clear the final hurdles for the bill to advance to Trump’s desk. One of the many things that this bill would do is require able bodied people on federal assistance to meet the minimum work hours requirement to continue to receive their assistance. Democrats voted against this bill.<\/p>\n

From Fox News: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is crammed with his and congressional Republicans’ legislative priorities, including billions for the Pentagon and to bolster the White House’s border and immigration agenda, the permanent extension of his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, deep spending cuts and an effort to reform Medicaid.<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans have pitched the bill as a way to both turbocharge the economy and as a means to prevent Trump’s first-term tax cuts from expiring. They have simultaneously used it as a vehicle to achieve deep spending cuts in the neighborhood of $1.5 trillion.<\/p>\n

But Senate Democrats have railed against the package for the millions it could boot off of Medicaid and the trillions it could add to the federal deficit.<\/p>\n

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released two sets of scores Saturday and Sunday that reflected both current policy and current law. Under current policy, the bill would tack on just over $507 billion over the next decade. But under current law, the package would add roughly $3.3 trillion.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., countered that when it came to spending, Senate Democrats were being hypocritical.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been here a long time,” Thune said. “And I’ve not been involved in a single spending debate and fight in which Republicans were trying to spend less, and Democrats were trying to spend more, with one exception.<\/p>\n

“And that’s national security,” he continued. “Democrats are always willing to cut defense but never want to cut anywhere else.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miller, A. (2025, July 1). Senate passes Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ after marathon vote-a-rama. Fox News<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

White House. (2025, June 29). Myth vs. fact: The one big beautiful bill<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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