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EXCLUSIVE: House Budget Chair Says Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Law Will ‘Restore Fiscal Responsibility’
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington on Tuesday detailed how President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” law will help “restore fiscal
Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Miranda Devine on Wednesday that Elon Musk and Donald Trump's relationship had a "troublesome ending."
Republicans have a paper-thin House majority — as demonstrated by the 218-214 final vote on Trump’s high priority bill — and Valadao, Kim and Calvert barely survived past challenges. Valadao first won a congressional seat in 2012, lost it in 2018 and regained it in 2020. He successfully fended off Democrat Rudy Salas in 2022 and 2024.
The Big Beautiful Bill — a huge package of tax relief, more funding for immigration enforcement, and savings from entitlement reforms — is now law, and it’s a triumph not only for President Trump but for the whole Republican Party. The GOP passed two make-or-break tests here: one of party discipline, the other of political principles.
House passes Trump-backed bill, tightening his grip on the Republican Party despite backlash over debt and cuts to Medicaid.
A number of House Republicans — conservatives and moderates — have staked opposition to the party’s “big, beautiful bill” as GOP leaders race to send President Trump the sprawling
Here's what it would take for Elon Musk to launch a third-party effort to represent what he called "the 80% in the middle."
The bill had already passed the GOP-controlled Senate, with five Democrats joining every Republican in supporting it.
The procedural "rule" vote was 219-213, with one Republican, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, joining all Democrats in opposition. At one point, five Republicans had voted "no" on the rule, while eight others did not vote, but Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., managed to sway them overnight.
The Tax Policy Center, which provides nonpartisan analysis of tax and budget policy, projected the bill would result next year in a $150 tax break for the lowest quintile of Americans, a $1,750 tax cut for the middle quintile, and a $10,950 tax cut for the top quintile. That’s compared to what they’d face if the 2017 tax cuts expired.