Trump Tax Bill Clears the House in a Victory for Republicans, Advances to Senate by Christina Wilkie and Erin Doherty

Collection, Education, Politics, US Politics

May 22, 2025

Watch live as House Republicans move into an all-night session to push ahead on the multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package. Speaker Mike Johnson and his GOP leadership team appeared confident after a lengthy White House meeting with holdouts to salvage President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

KEY POINTS:
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill has passed the U.S. House of Representatives, a major win for Republicans.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and party leaders made dozens of last-minute amendments to the more than 1,000 page bill in an effort to unite moderates and hardline conservatives behind the package.
The legislation now advances to the Senate, where it faces a complicated path despite only needing a simple majority to pass.

WASHINGTON — Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives came together early Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill out of the chamber on a narrow vote.

Every Democrat on the floor voted no, as did Republican Reps. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, voted present. The final vote tally was 215-214.

The passage was a major victory for Republican leaders, who spent the past two months crafting the bill and the past two days making last-minute changes to it.

The more than 1,000 pages of legislation and 42 pages of amendments are a case study in how to win over both moderates and hardline conservatives.

The House Rules Committee convened for 21 straight hours of debate andamendments in order to meet Speaker Mike Johnson’s self-imposed Memorial Day deadline for passing the bill.

The package, comprised of tax cuts paired with cuts to the social safety net, still faces a complicated path through the Senate.

The upper chamber will consider the legislation under a set of rules called budget reconciliation, which requires only a simple majority to pass instead of the typical 60 votes required to move bills through the Senate.

“To our friends in the Senate, I would just say, the president is waiting with his pen,” Johnson said from the House floor ahead of the vote. To read more go to the link below:

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