Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves the House Chamber during a procedural vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in the U.S. Capitol on July 2. Johnson managed to cobble together the votes needed to pass the final rule for the bill, setting the House up for final passage ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline.
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After a vote that remained open for several hours as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., tried to convince five holdouts to advance President Trump’s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Republicans scored a procedural victory overnight that puts the megabill just one major vote away from final passage. Just one Republican voted against the rule — no Democrats voted for it.
While the bill still faces a final vote in the House, Johnson’s persistence allowed him and other Republican leadership to narrowly muster enough support to move the bill forward while navigating a narrow majority and a slew of internal party divisions over parts of the bill.
House Republicans are aiming to pass the legislation before Friday, sending it to President Trump’s desk for his signature by a self-imposed July 4 deadline.
Trump voiced his frustration with the lengthy vote series on Truth Social, posting “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!” He has not yet weighed in on the bill’s progress.
The sprawling GOP bill — clocking in at nearly 1,000 pages — represents a dramatic realignment of the federal government’s role in American life, shifting resources from the social safety net and investments in clean energy, and reorienting them to finance trillions of dollars in new spending on tax cuts, immigration enforcement and national defense.
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