Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

President Trump is celebrating Senate passage of the tax cuts and spending cut measure.

He calls the one big, beautiful bill.

As NPR's Tamara Keith explains, it now heads to the House of Representatives

either for final passage or to make additional changes.

Some House Republicans say they have concerns with the Senate version of the bill, but

President Trump said he wasn't worried about it.

It's a great bill. There is something for everyone, and I think it's going to go very nicely

in the House. Actually, I think it will be easier in the House than it was in the Senate.

He also dismissed independent estimates that the bill could lead to nearly 12 million Americans losing

health coverage. The bill only passed the Senate because Vice President J.D. Vance broke a tie.

Republicans face similarly tight margins in the House. But Trump is pushing to have it on his desk by July 4th.

Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.

California leaders have approved sweeping changes to a powerful decades-old environmental law.

Supporters of the changes say it will help address the state's housing shortage.

Member station KQED in San Francisco, Laura Cliven says

more. The new laws will make it easier to build housing in urban centers and exempt several

types of projects from environmental review, like farm worker housing and childcare centers. State

Assembly member Buffy Wicks authored part of the legislation. It's not going to solve all of our

housing problems, but it is going to solve all of our housing problems,

but it is going to remove the single biggest impediment to building environmentally friendly

housing in California. The changes will also make it easier to construct some types of manufacturing

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