House gives Trump a win as his big tax bill overcomes weeks of tense negotiations
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the NewsHour. Now missing just his signature, President Donald Trump's agenda will have the force of law tomorrow. |
| 0:09.6 | The so-called one big, beautiful bill, overcame thin Republican majorities and weeks of tense negotiations, |
| 0:17.1 | just meeting the president's self-imposed Independence Day deadline. |
| 0:21.5 | Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin takes us through the policy and politics of the Republican signature bill. |
| 0:29.4 | Yaser 218, the Nayser 214, the motion is adopted. |
| 0:34.5 | For the GOP of victory years in the making. House Republicans cheered after a long |
| 0:40.9 | week of overnight and nail-biter votes ended historically. Passage of what they named the one big |
| 0:47.5 | beautiful bill with some $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and $1.4 trillion in spending cuts. Both are records. As is the $3.2 trillion, |
| 0:58.5 | the Congressional Budget Office says this could add to the deficit. This is the vote tally card. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to frame this one, okay? For House Speaker Mike Johnson, a hard-fought moment to savor. |
| 1:08.9 | Mr. Speaker, with one big, beautiful bill, we are going to make this |
| 1:12.9 | country stronger, safer, and more prosperous than ever before, and every American is going to |
| 1:19.6 | benefit from that. President Trump was jubilant about his most sweeping legislative accomplishment. |
| 1:24.8 | We're sort of celebrating like the biggest bill of its kind ever |
| 1:28.7 | signed and it's going to make this country into a rocket ship. The president was the closer in chief, |
| 1:35.1 | pushing and pressuring the bill through, especially when it hit a wall last night. A House vote |
| 1:40.3 | was frozen as Republican opponents refused to let the bill advance. |
| 1:44.9 | Trump posted shortly after midnight, this should be an easy yes vote, ridiculous. |
| 1:50.3 | Then he was on the phone with the holdout who had wanted more conservative social and fiscal |
| 1:55.1 | policy. |
| 1:56.4 | Not long after that, the vast majority flipped. |
| 1:59.4 | A day earlier, Texas Republican Chip Roy and others had posted their lists of problems in |
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