Trump to sign "big, beautiful bill" in July Fourth ceremony at White House

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Washington — President Trump is bringing pomp and condition to his signing of the "big, beauteous bill" connected Friday, with a 4 p.m. Independence Day ceremonial astatine the White House. 

Some Republican members of Congress who voted to pass the authorities are expected to attend, arsenic the president puts his signature connected his sweeping home argumentation bill. The last measure hasn't appeased each Republicans, but the president and Congress managed to walk it up of their self-imposed July 4 deadline. 

The president watched coverage of the bill's transition from the White House connected Thursday. Mr. Trump took a triumph thigh during a code successful Iowa Thursday night, calling the archetypal 5 months of his 2nd word "a declaration of independency from a, really, nationalist decline." 

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt called the authorities "an encapsulation of each of the policies that the president campaigned connected and the American radical voted on," and said it's a "victorious time for the American people." 

Following days of handwringing and negotiations, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries breaking the grounds for the longest code connected the House floor, the House passed the authorities Thursday day successful a 218-214 vote. Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Thomas Massie voted against the legislation, and nary Democrats voted for it. GOP enactment and the White House spoke with Republican holdouts for hours to beforehand the measure aboriginal Thursday morning. 

A elder Trump White House authoritative told reporters connected a property telephone Thursday that the president was "deeply" progressive successful the process of the bill, and done "late-night telephone calls," helped determination the measure guardant successful Congress. Vice President Vance was besides intimately involved, the authoritative said. 

What's successful the "big, beauteous bill"?

  • The existent $2,000 kid taxation credit, which would instrumentality to a pre-2017 level of $1,000 successful 2026, volition permanently summation to $2,200. 

  • The authorities includes tougher restrictions on Medicaid, which provides government-sponsored wellness attraction for low-income and disabled Americans. The measure imposes enactment requirements for immoderate able-bodied adults and much predominant eligibility checks. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the measure volition effect successful 11.8 cardinal Americans losing wellness sum nether Medicaid implicit the adjacent decade.
  • The measure would let galore tipped workers to deduct up to $25,000 of their tips and overtime from their taxes. That proviso expires successful 2028.

  • The measure would marque changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, oregon nutrient stamps, expanding enactment requirements and requiring authorities governments with higher outgo mistake rates to screen immoderate of the program's costs.

  • The authorities besides includes much than $46.5 cardinal for borderline partition operation and related expenses, $45 cardinal to grow detention capableness for immigrants successful custody and astir $30 cardinal successful backing for hiring, grooming and different resources for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

  • The bundle besides includes an summation to the headdress connected the authorities and section taxation deduction, raising it from $10,000 to $40,000. After 5 years, it would instrumentality to $10,000.
  • The measure would largely terminate numerous taxation incentives from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act for cleanable energy, electrical vehicles and vigor ratio programs that benefited consumers. 
  • The authorities would rise the indebtedness ceiling by $5 trillion, going beyond the $4 trillion outlined successful the archetypal House-passed bill. Congress faces a deadline to code the indebtedness bounds aboriginal this summer. 


How to ticker President Trump's "big, beauteous bill" signing

  • What: President Trump holds an lawsuit to motion his "one big, beauteous bill"
  • Date: Friday, July 4, 2025
  • Time: 4 p.m. ET
  • Location: White House
  • Online stream: Live connected CBS News successful the subordinate supra and connected your mobile oregon streaming device.

Kathryn Watson

Kathryn Watson is simply a authorities newsman for CBS News Digital, based successful Washington, D.C.

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