It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

So at about 7 o'clock this morning, if you haven't heard this yet, after another all-nighter,

the House of Representatives

passed by one vote President Trump's so-called big, beautiful bill. The vote was 215 to 214. As the New York

Times describes it, the legislation would slash taxes, steer more money to the military and

border security, and pay for some of this with

cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, education, and clean energy programs. The Times says the bill

adds significantly to federal deficits and to the ranks of the uninsured. As New York economics

reporter Greg David describes it, the bill could devastate

New York's housing landscape. Greg will join us in just a minute. I'll give you one other local

story related to the bill first. The one vote margin was 215 to 214, right? And one local Republican

who actually objected to the bill helped to make that possible.

Long Island Republican Andrew Garberino abstained rather than voting no. That allowed the one-vote

margin to stand. Gabarino objected to some of the cuts to clean energy projects and green energy tax credits in the bill.

Garberino had said yesterday, according to reports, quote,

I think these things I'm hearing could end up killing a lot of projects

that have been announced all over the country, unquote,

and certainly that included in his district on the island.

But in the end, he did not vote.

So he registered his objection in the context of letting the bill pass rather than sinking it,

which one more no vote would have done.

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