President Donald Trump and Republican leaders are celebrating a major victory after leveraging their post-2024 trifecta to push a sweeping domestic policy bill through Congress at breakneck speed, overcoming internal divisions and sending it to the president’s desk just in time for their Independence Day deadline.
The narrow 218–214 vote, delivered just one day ahead of Trump’s self-imposed Friday deadline, capped more than four months of tense negotiations and internal strife. The process was marked by sharp ideological clashes and frequent friction between the House and Senate, where Republicans governed with little room for missteps given their razor-thin majorities.
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