GOP lawmakers and Trump underscore need for 'big, beautiful bill' amid opposition

Senate Republicans and members of the Trump administration highlighted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s goals in the face of a tense battle to get it to the president’s desk.

President Donald Trump and the White House are pushing for the bill to get passed by Friday, which marks the Fourth of July this year. Ahead of the bill narrowly passing the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) explained that the tax cuts Trump provided his first term are set to expire at the end of this year, which he warned would be “cataclysmic to the economy.”