Hello and welcome to Newsout from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London. I'm Sean Lay.

The sometimes po-faced language of Congress, the US legislature, the one big beautiful bill, as it's officially called, certainly stands out.

Here's Caroline Levitt, the White House spokeswoman,

explaining White's passage in the House of Representatives

in the wee small hours of Thursday morning

is so important to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Last night, Republicans in the House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,

the most significant piece of

legislation in years. This one big beautiful bill will implement President Trump's Make America

Great Again agenda by delivering the largest tax cut in American history for middle class families,

the working class and small businesses. Leave aside the hubristic title.

If the measure wins approval in the US Senate

and is signed into law by President Trump,

it will cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans.

But it will also reduce benefits for some of the poorest,

and it'll add trillions of dollars to US government debt.

That's not the critique of the opposition

Democrats, it's the assessment of a non-partisan body, the Congressional Budget Office.

Well, earlier I spoke to Congressman Pete Sessions. He's a Republican. He represents part of

the US state of Texas, and he's been in the House now on and off for nearly 30 years.

I asked him, why pass a measure that potentially raises US debt levels?

The amount that we have agreed upon that we will reduce in our taxes

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