From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarro. This is the Daily.

President Trump has called it the most important piece of legislation in his second term,

a single bill that would unlock his entire domestic agenda.

But as that bill heads from the House to the Senate, it's raising existential questions among

Republicans about who Trumpism is really for.

Today, my colleague, congressional correspondent Katie Edmondson, on the big, messy battle over the big, beautiful bill.

It's Thursday, June 5th.

Hey, Katie.

Hey, Michael.

Katie, as we speak with you on Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., where you are,

the big, beautiful bill is navigating what looks like some big, ugly obstacles.

Yeah, that's not an overstatement. It has been a very difficult, very trying 48 hours for this piece of legislation,

and that really began when Elon Musk came out yesterday and called it a, quote, disgusting

abomination, unquote.

So it all kind of went downhill from there, I would say.

An auditorium full of voters venting their anger at Representative Mike Flood.

This provision was unknown to me when I voted for the bill.

We're hearing from some Republican lawmakers now who are saying, yes, I voted to support it, but actually this is a terrible bill.

We don't get the full bill text until very close to the time to vote for it.

And so that was one section, that was two pages, that I didn't see.

If I knew then, what I knew now, I wouldn't have voted to support it.

The old, if I'd read the bill, I might not have voted for the bill.

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