Kathmandu. Us President Donald Trump said thursday that it was an “unprecedented victory” to cheer supporters at a public meeting after Congress passed his signature tax and spending bill with a minimum majority.
This has strengthened his agenda for a radical second term. The excited president praised the unpopular bill and celebrated america’s year-long 250th birthday celebrations. This has caused deep concern within his own Republican Party and among many Americans, according to polls.
Many fear that the bill passed will increase national debt, destroy health and welfare support and clean energy, and fuel Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“There can’t be a better birthday gift for America than the unprecedented victory we achieved a few hours ago,” Trump told supporters in the state capital des Moines, “very simply, this one, big beautiful bill will provide the strongest border on Earth, the strongest economy on Earth, the strongest army on Earth, and ensure that the United States remains the strongest country anywhere on this beautiful planet of ours.” । ”
The bill was passed 218-214 in the first final vote on Thursday, with Speaker Mike Johnson finally uniting a small group of Republican opponents in the House of Representatives. Trump said he would sign legislation on Friday, Us Independence Day, and that pilots who launched a US attack on Iran two weeks ago would be present.
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The legislation is the latest in a series of major victories for Trump. These include a Supreme Court ruling last week that restricted single federal judges from blocking his policies and U.S. air strikes that brought a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
His massive mega-bill was passed by the Senate with a minimum majority on Tuesday and had to be returned to the Lower House for approval of the senators’ amendments. The package honors many of Trump’s election promises, such as increasing military spending, funding the mass immigrant deportation campaign, and committing $4.5 trillion to expand his first-term tax relief.
“Everything was a complete disaster under the Biden-Harris radical regime, and we did our best to make as many repairs as possible on a big, beautiful bill,” Johnson said. ”
But it is expected to add an additional $3.4 trillion in a decade to the country’s fastest-growing deficit, narrowing the federal food aid program and forcing it through the biggest cuts in Medicaid health insurance plans for low-income Americans since the start of the 1960s. Some estimates put the total number of recipients who lost their insurance coverage under the bill at 17 million. Many rural hospitals are expected to be closed. Republican centrists in the House fear the cuts will hurt their chances of re-election next year, while financial hawks are angry about savings, saying they are far short of what was promised.
Johnson had to negotiate by a tight margin and lost only a handful of lawmakers in the final vote. It was more than two dozen. They had previously declared that they were open to rejecting 869 pages of text.
Trump spent weeks by calling and holding White House meetings to convince lawmakers caught between angering welfare recipients at home and inviting the president’s anger.
Democrats hope that public opposition to the bill will help them overturn the House in the 2026 midterm elections, pointing to data that the bill represents a large redistribution of wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest.
“This bill, this is a big, ugly bill — this reckless Republican budget, this disgusting hate—not about improving the quality of life of the American people,” house minority leader Hakim Jeffries said. After the bill was passed, Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden said, “It is not only reckless but cruel. Additional spending on military and border security will be partly paid by eliminating clean energy and electric vehicle subsidies. This is one factor that has triggered a bitter public dispute between Trump and former chief adviser Elon Musk.
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