Johnson to quell internal House Republican revolt over Senate changes to Trump’s tax bill – live updates

US House Republicans advance Trump tax-cut bill opening way for debate

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, a procedural step setting the stage for possible passage of the legislation in a vote expected later in the day, reports Reuters.

The House voted 219-213 to move forward.

We will shortly be continuing our coverage of the debate in a new live blog, so here is a summary of the day’s events so far:

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The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, a procedural step setting the stage for possible passage of the legislation in a vote expected later in the day, reports Reuters. The House voted 219-213 to move forward.

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Flanked by nearly every member of his caucus, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, of New York delivered a pointed message: With all Democrats voting “no,” they only need to flip four Republicans to prevent the bill from passing, reports the Associated Press (AP). Jeffries invoked the “courage” of the late Sen. John McCain giving a thumbs-down to the GOP effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, and singled out Republicans from districts expected to be highly competitive in 2026, including two from Pennsylvania.

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However, Jeffries has been talking for almost three hours now and has vowed to “take my sweet time” telling the stories of Americans who will be affected negatively by what he calls Donald Trump’s “one big, ugly bill”.

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The chamber began taking procedural votes on the bill earlier in the day, but in a sign of the measure’s challenges one was kept open for more than seven hours, making it the longest vote in the history of the House of Representatives.

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Trump has demanded the legislation – known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act – be on his desk by Friday 4 July and spent much of Wednesday holding meetings and phone calls with skeptical Republican lawmakers. As the rule stalled, he wrote on Truth Social: “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!”

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For the bill to pass it must approve the version passed by the Senate on Tuesday when vice-president JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote after an all-night session. Johnson has acknowledged the bill “went a little further than many of us would have preferred” in its changes, particularly to Medicaid.

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Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson said as he headed to the House floor for the rule vote: “We’re in a good place right now. This is the legislative process, this is exactly how I think the framers intended for it to work.” But after voting against the motion, Keith Self, a conservative Texas congressman, blasted the bill as having failed to save enough money, curb green energy incentives or crack down on transgender rights.

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The bill in its current form would add $3.3tn to the US budget deficit through 2034, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates.

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Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries has told the House that he intends to “take my sweet time” telling the stories of the American people who rely on Medicaid.

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He says he will keep on reading out letters from people who will be affected by the bill.

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Addressing the House, he says:

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It had been my hope, Mr Speaker, that we would be able to have a passionate debate of passionate support and passionate opposition and connection with this bill, that hundreds of members of both sides of this aisle had participated in.

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Instead we have a limited debate… and because that debate was so limited, I feel the obligation, Mr Speaker, to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time to tell the stories of the American people.

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And that’s exactly what I intend to do; take my sweet time on behalf of the American people.

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He goes on to list the people he is standing up for and that he plans to “take [my] sweet time” to the applause and cheers from the benches behind him. He highlighted to time (“just gone 6am”) and remember that news agencies were reporting a vote was expected at around 5.30am ET.

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Jeffries resumes reading out letters from American people he says will be affected negatively by the president’s bill.

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Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has spoken in “strong opposition of Donald Trump’s one big ugly bill”. Jeffries argued that the bill, that he described as an “abomination”, would gut Medicaid and “rip food from the mouth of children, seniors and veterans”. Instead, he said, it would “reward billionaires with massive tax breaks”.

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Jeffries continued:

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Every single Democrat stands in strong opposition to this bill because we are standing up for the American people.

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He questioned why, if the Republicans were so proud of the bill, the debate had begun in the early hours. Many of his comments were followed by applause.

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Jeffries said the bill would “hurt everyday Americans” and “people in America will die unncessary deaths”. He added:

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That is outrageous, that is disgusting. That is not what we should be doing here in the United States House of Representatives.

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The House voted 219-213 to move forward.

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It’s passed 2am in Washington DC and Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill has been hanging in the balance as Republican leaders struggle to muster sufficient votes in the US House of Representatives.

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House speaker Mike Johnson said he was “absolutely confident we are going to land this plane” but lawmakers were blocking the approval of a procedural rule that is necessary to begin debate on the bill and set the stage for its passage.

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Johnson said he would keep the procedural vote open for “as long as it takes” and the vote was still open as the clock struck midnight with five Republicans and all Democrats voting against it.

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Eight GOP lawmakers had yet to cast their votes, and that group contains several of the bill’s detractors. Enough Republicans have already voted to block it but Johnson has been hoping to change their minds.

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In other key developments:

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Trump has demanded the legislation – known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act – be on his desk by Friday 4 July and spent much of Wednesday holding meetings and phone calls with skeptical Republican lawmakers. As the rule stalled, he wrote on Truth Social: “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!”

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The chamber began taking procedural votes on the bill earlier in the day, but in a sign of the measure’s challenges one was kept open for more than seven hours, making it the longest vote in the history of the House of Representatives.

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For the bill to pass it must approve the version passed by the Senate on Tuesday when vice-president JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote after an all-night session. Johnson has acknowledged the bill “went a little further than many of us would have preferred” in its changes, particularly to Medicaid.

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Johnson said as he headed to the House floor for the rule vote: “We’re in a good place right now. This is the legislative process, this is exactly how I think the framers intended for it to work.” But after voting against the motion, Keith Self, a conservative Texas congressman, blasted the bill as having failed to save enough money, curb green energy incentives or crack down on transgender rights.

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The bill in its current form would add $3.3tn to the US budget deficit through 2034, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates.

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It’s past midnight in Washington but Donald Trump is clearly still tuned in to the progress of his signature bill as it struggles to pass a procedural vote in the House.

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The president has just posted to Truth Social, excoriating his Republican colleagues and warning that their failure to pass the bill will cost them votes.

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Largest Tax Cuts in History and a Booming Economy vs. Biggest Tax Increase in History, and a Failed Economy. What are the Republicans waiting for??? What are you trying to prove??? MAGA IS NOT HAPPY, AND IT’S COSTING YOU VOTES!!!”

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Mike Johnson has told Fox News he’ll keep the vote open for “as long as it takes” as the House holds a key procedural vote on Donald Trump’s big bill.

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The House speaker told the outlet:

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I’ll keep it open as long as it takes to make sure we’ve got everybody here and accounted for and all the questions answered – I made that commitment to my members.

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We’re in an era of Congress where we have small margins, small majorities, and that makes it by necessity a bottom-up institution – y’know, it’s not a couple leaders in a backroom like the old days where two or three people decide the agenda and it’s hoisted upon everyone else and they take orders and follow. It really is a fully participatory, deliberative body.

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Passage of the procedural vote would pave the way for a final debate on the president’s tax and spending bill.

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After a day-long delay, the House has started a procedural vote on a rule that would open final debate on the tax-and-spending bill Donald Trump wants to sign into law, but the measure has already been voted against by enough Republicans to have it fail.

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The vote is still open, but four Republicans have voted against the rule so far, which means that the measure will fail if all Democrats vote against it as well and no one changes their vote.

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Donald Trump is apparently whiling away the hours as the House Republican leadership tries to convince its members to vote for the tax and spending bill he wants to sign by watching television.

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That seems likely because he just posted a blistering attack on Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin, calling him “a third rate Democrat politician, has no idea what is in our fantastic Tax Cut Bill, nor would he understand it if he did. This DOPE has been consistently losing to me for YEARS”.

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As he has so often during Trump’s years in the White House, the president appears to be effectively using social media to type out what he is shouting at the TV. In this case, what seems to have triggered his rage is Raskin’s appearance on MSNBC in the last hour.

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When the host Chris Hayes asked Raskin to comment on a report from the outlet NOTUS that Trump told House Republicans on Wednesday not to “touch” Medicaid, despite the fact that the bill includes over $900bn in Medicaid cuts, Raskin said: “There’s a lot of discussion on the floor about whether or not Trump really understands what’s in this bill or not, and whether he’s out of it.”

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“The extraordinary thing about that is of course all of these people have gotten in line despite their own misgivings because Trump is leading the way, but Trump might not even understand what’s in the bill. So it’s a very dangerous moment when you think about what democracy is, and it doesn’t speak well for what has become of the Republican party”, Raskin added.

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Merit Street Media, the new conservative cable TV network founded by Phil McGraw, aka Dr Phil, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, and sued its partner Trinity Broadcasting, one of the nation’s largest Christian broadcasters.

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McGraw’s openly partisan coverage of the Trump administration has included friendly, soft-focus features on the White House border czar, Tom Homan, and “behind the scenes” reports on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids in Chicago and Los Angeles this year.

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That coverage, as the Hollywood reporter observed, effectively made Dr Phil “an unofficial spokesperson for President Trump in advocating for the raids”.

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McGraw was clearly stung by the criticism of his pro-Trump coverage, and devoted a recent segment of his show to defending it.

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When the Republican representative Gabe Evans of Colorado was confronted in the Capitol rotunda on Wednesday by Greg Casar, a progressive Democrat from Texas, about his support for a bill that cuts more than $900bn spending in Medicaid, Evans had a simple reply: “We’re not cutting Medicaid.”

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In fact, according to an analysis this week by the non-partisan Penn Wharton Budget Model, the Republican tax-and-spending bill would cut Medicaid spending by more than $900bn “by imposing work requirements, restricting state-level taxes on healthcare providers that draw federal matching funds, increasing the frequency of eligibility checks, changing Medicaid eligibility requirements based on immigration status, and phasing down state-directed payments to providers under managed care organizations to be in line with Medicare rates”.

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But the Republican party line, dictated by Donald Trump, is simply to deny that reality and claim that the changes to Medicaid are simply about cutting “waste, fraud and abuse”.

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Trump’s repeated denials that the big tax-and-spending bill he wants to sign includes sweeping cuts to Medicaid has apparently confused even some members of his own party.

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The news site NOTUS reported on Wednesday that Trump “doesn’t seem to have a firm grasp” on what is in the bill, because he told moderate Republican House members he met with in urgning them to support the legislation that the party should not touch Medicaid.

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“But we’re touching Medicaid in this bill,” one member responded to Trump, three sources told the outlet.

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We are following developments in the US House on Wednesday, where the razor-thin Republican majority is trying to set up a vote on the version of Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending bill passed by the Senate.

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For hours now, the House has been stalled on a procedural vote, which they needed to hold because of an error the House rules committee made when it drafted the rule governing what was then called the one big beautiful bill act (OBBA).

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Right now, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, and the White House are working to put pressure on a handful of Republican holdouts, to ensure that they will vote to approve the bill and get it to Trump to sign by his self-imposed Fourth of July deadline.

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Here are some of the day’s main developments:

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Speaker Mike Johnson said “very positive” progress had been made toward passing Trump’s megabill, but acknowledged that “we can’t make everyone 100% happy” with the final package.

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Trump said that the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, “should resign immediately”, after the federal housing regulator called on Congress to investigate him for supposed “political bias”.

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A federal court ruled that Trump had exceeded his authority in suspending the right to apply for asylum at the southern border by claiming there was an “invasion” across the US-Mexico border.

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The Democratic representative Josh Riley of New York accused Republicans of hypocrisy during a debate on the House floor about the bill, which includes massive cuts to healthcare spending to fund tax cuts that go mostly to the wealthy. “Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class, when all you’re doing is shitting on the middle class,” Riley said.

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The US and Vietnam struck a trade agreement that sets 20% tariffs on many of the south-east Asian country’s exports following last-minute negotiations, Trump and Vietnamese state media said.

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The Trump administration asked the supreme court to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who were fired by Trump and then reinstated by a federal judge.

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Writing on his social media platform, Truth Social, Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, “should resign immediately”. The president of the United States referred to the central banker by the nickname he has assigned to him, and added three exclamation marks to his statement.

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Trump also shared a news report on Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, asking Congress to investigate Powell.

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In a letter released on Wednesday, Pulte called on Congress to investigate what he called Powell’s “political bias, and his deceptive Senate testimony, which is enough to be removed ‘for cause’”.

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Pulte also claimed that Powell had lied about upgrades at the central bank’s headquarters.

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Trump has complained repeatedly that Powell has been slow to drop interest rates, and given him the nickname “Too Late”.

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On Tuesday, Powell blamed Trump’s tariffs for preventing the immediate interest rate cuts the president has demanded.

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Lawmakers have been told they can leave the House floor as delays have led to a five-minute procedural vote remaining open for over an hour while GOP leaders frantically try to rally Republican holdouts to get behind the bill.

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Johnson left the floor and went back to his office on the phone, according to NBC News, while the Hill reports that many of the deficit hawks in the Freedom caucus and beyond, who have threatened to tank the bill, are still in a meeting in his ceremonial office off the House floor.

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With the House at a standstill, the all-important rule vote has also been delayed and we have no timing on when it might happen.

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A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s asylum ban at the US-Mexico border, saying the president exceeded his authority when he issued a proclamation declaring illegal immigration an emergency and setting aside existing legal processes.

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The US district judge Randolph Moss said in a 128-page opinion that Trump’s 20 January proclamation blocking all immigrants “engaged in the invasion across the southern border” from claiming asylum or other humanitarian protections went beyond his executive power.

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The ruling is a setback for Trump, whose aggressive immigration crackdown has seen the number of people caught crossing illegally plummet to record low levels.

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The American Civil Liberties Union brought the challenge to Trump’s asylum ban in February, arguing it violated US laws and international treaties.

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Moss said he would stay the effective date of his order for 14 days to allow the Trump administration to appeal.

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Tim Burchett, of Tennessee, struck a positive note after a two-hour meeting he and other conservatives had with Donald Trump at the White House this afternoon, saying it was “very productive” and put him “a little closer” to voting yes on the president’s megabill.

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He told CNN:

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It puts me a little closer. We’re going to meet a little bit here and go over everything and make sure we got all our facts straight.

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In a post on X, Burchett said JD Vance had also been present at the “very informative” meeting with the president and declared it was “a very good day”. He said:

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The president was wonderful as always, informative, funny, told me he likes seeing me on TV, which is kind of cool.

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Big day today, folks. Hopefully we get this thing worked out. The president answered all of our questions, was very informative. JD Vance was there. This was a very good day.

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Speaker Mike Johnson has said “very positive” progress has been made toward passing Donald Trump’s megabill, but acknowledged that “we can’t make everyone 100% happy” with the final package, CNN reports.

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It quotes Johnson as telling reporters:

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When you have a piece of legislation that is this comprehensive and with so many agenda items involved, you’re going to have lots of different priorities and preferences among people because they represent different districts and they have different interests.

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But we can’t make everyone 100% happy. It’s impossible. This is a deliberative body. It’s a legislative process. By definition, all of us have to give up on our personal preferences. [I’m] never going to ask anybody to compromise core principles, but preferences must be yielded for the greater good, and that’s what I think people are recognizing and come to grips with.

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It remains unclear if he has the numbers needed to pass the bill as the House prepares to take a key procedural vote to get the bill closer to final passage.

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Johnson said he – and Trump – have been speaking to conservative hardliners and swing-district Republicans all day about their concerns, adding that “there’s more conversations to be held”.

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We’ve had lots of great conversations. I’ve met with individuals and groups all day long, as has the president – who’s fully engaged as well – trying to convince everybody this is the very best product that we can produce. There’s more conversations to be held.

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Back on the House floor, Republicans have just managed to get through the chamber a preliminary motion on the bill.

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The motion, which was approved on party lines with 214 in favor and 212 against, sets the stage for another vote later in the afternoon to adopt the rule. If that is successful, the chamber will debate the bill, then vote on its final passage.

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However, it remains unclear whether the GOP has the votes it needs to pass the rule.

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The House of Representatives is in the midst of one of the preliminary votes it must take before they can vote on passing the wide-ranging tax and spending bill that is Donald Trump’s top legislative priority.

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Republicans have a small majority and will need all their members present to get the bill through, particularly if they want to make Trump’s self-imposed deadline of Friday, the Independence Day holiday.

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Republican lawmakers who had not arrived earlier trickled into the Capitol Wednesday afternoon, and sounded positive about their chances of getting the bill passed — though perhaps not in the next two days.

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“We’re going to get it done,” said South Dakota congressman Dusty Johnson, who went on to acknowledge that “people are still getting to yes”.

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Earlier in the day, he had participated in meetings with Trump and holdout Republicans, which he described as successful. “The meetings that I was in, the president, I think, closed out just about everybody,” Johnson said.

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As we’ve reported, members of the House Freedom Caucus were expected to meet with the president this morning. Earlier, caucus chairman Andy Harris earlier told CNN:

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I’m still voting no on the rule. We have to get this thing right.

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And Texas representative Chip Roy, among the most vocal critics of the Senate’s version of the bill, said that he and many other conservatives remain opposed to the bill and still want major changes. He told CNN:

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It’s not ‘take it or leave it.’ I don’t need take-it-or-leave-it legislating. How about we send it back to him? We say, ‘Take it or leave it,’ all right? So the Senate doesn’t get to be the final say on everything.

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He said he and other hardliners were in ongoing discussions with the White House about the changes they want, adding:

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I think we need more spending restraint, and I think we need to fix what they did in the Senate.

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Meanwhile, Kentucky representative Thomas Massie, who is not a member of the caucus but has consistently voted against the bill over his deficit concerns, said he intends to stand firm in that position. Asked by CNN if there was anything at all leadership could do to win his vote, he said:

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We could go back to drawing board to a skinny bill.

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He called the 4 July deadline “arbitrary”, adding:

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There’s no reason to bankrupt the country because you want to go shoot off some fireworks.

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Earlier, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries called on four House Republicans to vote “hell no” on Trump’s signature tax and spending megabill (the GOP’s majority is so slim, they can only afford three no votes if the bill is to pass).

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Invoking the late Republican senator John McCain’s decisive vote to sink the GOP’s 2017 effort to repeal Obamacare during Donald Trump’s first term, Jeffries said from the steps of the Capitol:

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What type of party would bring a bill to the House floor that rips away Medicaid from those in need? What kind of party would bring a bill to the House floor that literally robs food from the mouths of children, veterans and seniors? And all of this is being done to provide massive tax breaks to their billionaire donors. It’s unconscionable; it’s unacceptable; it’s un-American.

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All we need are four Republicans – just four – to show John-McCain-level courage.

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He and other Democrats also called out several Republicans facing tough re-election contests in battleground districts next year – Scott Perry and Rob Bresnahan, both of Pennsylvania, and David Valadao and Young Kim, both of California.

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A federal judge last night blocked the Trump administration’s bid to end temporary deportation protections and work permits for approximately 521,000 Haitian immigrants before the program’s scheduled expiration date.

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Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security rescinded Joe Biden’s extension of temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians through 3 February. It called for the program to end on 3 August, and last week pushed back that date to 2 September.

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The US district judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn, however, said the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem did not follow instructions and a timeline mandated by Congress to reconsider the TPS designation for Haitians.

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“Secretary Noem does not have statutory or inherent authority to partially vacate a country’s TPS designation”, making her actions “unlawful”, Cogan wrote. “Plaintiffs are likely to (and, indeed, do) succeed on the merits.”

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Cogan also said Haitians’ interests in being able to live and work in the United States “far outweigh” potential harm to the US government, which remains free to enforce immigration laws and terminate TPS status as prescribed by Congress.

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In a statement, Tricia McLaughlin, homeland security spokesperson, said Haiti’s TPS designation had been granted following the 2010 earthquake in that country, and was never intended as a “de facto” asylum program.

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“This ruling delays justice and seeks to kneecap the President’s constitutionally vested powers,” she said. “We expect a higher court to vindicate us.”

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More than 1 million people, more than half of them children, are displaced within Haiti, where gang violence is prevalent despite a UN-backed security mission that began last year.

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The Trump administration violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to deportation officials, a group of 20 states allege in a lawsuit.

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Last month health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s advisers ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington DC to the Department of Homeland Security.

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All allow non-US citizens to enroll in Medicaid – a jointly funded federal and state health insurance programme for lower-income individuals and underserved groups – that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars.

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On Tuesday, California attorney general Rob Bonta and 19 other states’ attorneys general sued over the move. They alleged that the Trump administration’s data release infringes on federal health privacy protection laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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The complaint argues that if “members of our community cannot trust that the government will keep their medical history and other personal data safe, they will think twice about going to the doctor when needed”. This loss of trust will lead to “irreparable damage due to increased morbidity and mortality”.

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There’s nothing on Donald Trump’s schedule today, freeing him up for meetings with GOP holdouts across the ideological spectrum on the Hill and at the White House to press them to back his bill as the critical House vote looms.

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Speaker Mike Johnson met with members of the House Freedom Caucus this morning, who are now at the White House to meet with Trump. Per The Hill, caucus chair Andy Harris said “nothing’s changed” after the meeting with Johnson.

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“The Speaker is going to have to decide if he’s going to bring this closer to the House framework,” Harris said. As I reported on Monday, the ultraconservative bloc said that the legislation in the Senate is “not what we agreed to”, underscoring discontent among the fiscal hawks with the higher deficit spending, among other things, in the Senate’s version of the bill.

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Another member of the hardline caucus told The Hill following the meeting with Johnson:

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There is still a real, big problem with the rule vote if they’re not going to amend the bill and send it back.

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I and a number of others are of the view that we cannot support the rule or the underlying bill… without changes.

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The problems we have are real: deficits, gutting of the green new scam provisions we put in place, and other, Medicaid for illegals, etc.

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Some House GOP moderates also oppose the Senate’s version of the bill on the grounds of greater cuts to social safety net programs, especially Medicaid, among other things. NBC reports that Trump is meeting with the Republican Main Street Caucus, whose members are moderate-leaning, today to discuss the bill.

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CNN reports that centrists Mike Lawler of New York, David Valadao of California, Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma, Dusty Johnson of South Dakota, Dan Newhouse of Washington and Andrew Garbarino of New York were all seen arriving at the West Wing at around 10am ET.

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For Lawler, for example, the biggest point of contention with Trump’s policy legislation is the state and local tax deduction (Salt).

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The House is currently in the process of taking a procedural vote, a move necessitated by Democrats who are trying to derail the bill before it can come to a final vote.

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Democrats lack the votes for the strategy to work, but with the weather affecting attendance, it will give Congress an accurate account of who is back in Washington as well as an early assessment of how much, if any Republican opposition there is to the bill.

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Severe weather is impacting air travel to Washington DC, causing disruptions for members of Congress needing to return for a crucial vote on Trump’s bill.

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Thunderstorms and heavy rain forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights to Washington-area airports, including Reagan National, according to the aviation tracker FlightAware.

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Many members of the House are opting to drive their cars to Washington instead, avoiding the risk of last-minute flight delays or cancellations. Representative Nancy Mace and representative Russell Fry, both Republicans from South Carolina, posted videos on social media announcing their plans to drive to the capitol.

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Trump is defending his bill, which just barely passed in the Senate yesterday, on social media. He emphasized that the bill will bring “growth” to the US. It is estimated that the bill would grow the national deficit by $3.3tn through 2034, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

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Trump wrote:

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“Nobody wants to talk about GROWTH, which will be the primary reason that the Big, Beautiful Bill will be one of the most successful pieces of legislation ever passed. THIS GROWTH has already begun at levels never seen before. Trillions of Dollars are now being invested into the USA, more than ever before. Likewise, hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Tariffs are filling up the coffers of Treasury. The Tariff money has already arrived and is setting new records! We are growing our way out of the Sleepy Joe Biden MESS that he and the Democrats left us, and it is happening much faster than anyone thought possible.

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Our Country will make a fortune this year, more than any of our competitors, but only if the Big, Beautiful Bill is PASSED! As they say, Trump’s been right about everything, and this is the easiest of them all to predict. Republicans, don’t let the Radical Left Democrats push you around. We’ve got all the cards, and we are going to use them. Last year America was a “DEAD” Nation, with no hope for the future, and now it’s the “HOTTEST NATION IN THE WORLD!” MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

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US House Republicans were set to vote on Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending bill on Wednesday, a day after it narrowly passed the Senate.

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But the fate of Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” hangs in the balance as House speaker Mike Johnson seeks to quell an internal revolt over the changes made by the Senate.

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The Senate passed the bill, with JD Vance, the vice-president, casting the tie-breaking vote, on Tuesday, after a record-setting, all-night session. Now the chambers must reconcile their versions: the sprawling megabill goes back to the House, where Johnson has said the Senate “went a little further than many of us would have preferred” in its changes, particularly to Medicaid, a program that provides healthcare to low-income and disabled Americans.

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But the speaker vowed to “get that bill over the line”. Trump has set a Fourth of July deadline for Congress to send the bill to his desk.

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Early on Wednesday morning, the House rules committee advanced the measure, sending it to the floor for consideration.

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In a Tuesday night interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Johnson said he expects to hold a House vote on Wednesday but acknowledged that travel disruptions caused by weather delays were a “wild card” that may impact attendance. In that case, he said the vote would likely take place on Thursday “at the latest”.

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The House approved an initial draft of the legislation last month by a single vote, overcoming Democrats’ unanimous opposition. But many fiscal conservatives are furious over cost estimates that project the Senate version would add even more to the federal deficit than the House-passed plan.

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Donald Trump ought to visit Hiroshima to see the effects of nuclear weapons after he compared the 1945 bombings to recent airstrikes on Iran, the Japanese city’s mayor said.

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Trump had told reporters:

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That hit ended the war. I don’t want to use an example of Hiroshima, I don’t want to use an example of Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing.

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Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, mayor Kazumi Matsui said:

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It seems to me that he does not fully understand the reality of the atomic bombings, which, if used, take the lives of many innocent citizens, regardless of whether they were friend or foe, and threaten the survival of the human race.

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I wish that president Trump would visit the bombed area to see the reality of the atomic bombing and feel the spirit of Hiroshima, and then make statements.

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Ukraine called the acting US envoy to the foreign ministry on Wednesday and stressed the importance of continuing critical military aid to fight Russia’s invasion, the ministry said, after Washington halted some deliveries of ammunition and missiles to Kyiv.

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In a statement, it said deputy foreign minister Mariana Betsa expressed gratitude to deputy chief of mission John Ginkel for US support, but warned that a cut-off in aid, particularly air-defence systems, would embolden Russia, Reuters reported.

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“The Ukrainian side emphasised that any delay or procrastination in supporting Ukraine’s defense capabilities will only encourage the aggressor to continue the war and terror, rather than seek peace,” it said.

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CBS parent company Paramount on Wednesday settled a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over an interview broadcast in October, in the latest concession by a media company to the US president, who has targeted outlets over what he describes as false or misleading coverage.

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Paramount said it would pay $16m to settle the suit with the money allocated to Trump’s future presidential library, and not paid to Trump “directly or indirectly”.

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“The settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret,” the company statement added.

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Trump filed a $10bn lawsuit against CBS in October, alleging the network deceptively edited an interview that aired on its 60 Minutes news program with then-vice-president and presidential candidate Kamala Harris to “tip the scales in favor of the Democratic party” in the election. In an amended complaint filed in February, Trump increased his claim for damages to $20bn.

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CBS aired two versions of the Harris interview in which she appears to give different answers to the same question about the Israel-Hamas war, according to the lawsuit filed in a federal court in Texas.

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CBS previously said the lawsuit was “completely without merit” and had asked a judge to dismiss the case.

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The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Edward A Paltzik, a lawyer representing Trump in the civil suit, could not be immediately reached for comment.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics as Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending legislation is expected to head to the House after it cleared the Senate last night with the narrowest of margins.

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The Senate passed the measure in a 51-50 vote with vice-president JD Vance breaking a tie after three Republicans – Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky – joined all 47 Democrats in voting against the bill.

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It followed a long debate in which Republicans grappled with the so-called “one big beautiful” bill’s price tag – it is set to raise the deficit by $5 trillion – and its impact on the US healthcare system.

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The vote in the House, where Republicans hold a 220-212 majority, is likely to be close.

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Mike Johnson, the House speaker, said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Republican leadership would seek to move the legislation through the Rules Committee this morning and get it before the entire House before Friday’s holiday, unless travel plans were upset by thunderstorms that have menaced the Washington area.

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“Hopefully we’re voting on this by tomorrow or Thursday at latest, depending on the weather delays and travel and all the rest – that’s the wild card that we can’t control,” Johnson said yesterday.

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A White House official told reporters that Trump would be “deeply involved” in pushing House Republicans to approve the bill. “It’s a great bill. There is something for everyone,” Trump said at an event in Florida. “And I think it’s going to go very nicely in the House.”

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Is Trump’s optimism misplaced? You can read our report on the bill’s progress so far and prospects for today here:

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Entertainingly at least, the bill has reanimated the much-missed Musk-Trump feud, with the tech billionaire calling the legislation “insane” and suggesting he could form a new political party if it passed.

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In response, Trump claimed he could “look into” deporting Musk. So stay with us for all the developments.

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Trump announced on his social media platform that Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire in its war in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept the terms of the agreement. The news comes as Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is scheduled to visit the White House on 7 July.

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Trump toured “Alligator Alcatraz”, a controversial new migrant detention jail in the remote Florida Everglades, and celebrated the harsh conditions that people sent there would experience. Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, and Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, said detainees could arrive at the rapidly constructed facility as soon as today. Trump later revisited his idea of “renovating and rebuilding Alcatraz”, with a view to reopening the infamous island prison in San Francisco, which has been closed for over 60 years.

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The Pentagon has halted shipments of air defense missiles and other precision munitions to Ukraine over concerns that US stockpiles are too low. On Sunday, Moscow fired more than 500 aerial weapons at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that Kyiv described as the biggest air attack so far of the three-year war.

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USAID will officially stop implementing foreign aid starting today, secretary of state Marco Rubio said. He added that the US’s assistance in the future will be targeted and limited, focusing on trade rather than aid.

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The Trump administration raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship over his vocal support for Palestinian rights. Democrat senator Chris Murphy slammed the idea as “racist bullshit”.

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We will shortly be continuing our coverage of the debate in a new live blog, so here is a summary of the day’s events so far:

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, a procedural step setting the stage for possible passage of the legislation in a vote expected later in the day, reports Reuters. The House voted 219-213 to move forward.
Flanked by nearly every member of his caucus, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, of New York delivered a pointed message: With all Democrats voting “no,” they only need to flip four Republicans to prevent the bill from passing, reports the Associated Press (AP). Jeffries invoked the “courage” of the late Sen. John McCain giving a thumbs-down to the GOP effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, and singled out Republicans from districts expected to be highly competitive in 2026, including two from Pennsylvania.
However, Jeffries has been talking for almost three hours now and has vowed to “take my sweet time” telling the stories of Americans who will be affected negatively by what he calls Donald Trump’s “one big, ugly bill”.
The chamber began taking procedural votes on the bill earlier in the day, but in a sign of the measure’s challenges one was kept open for more than seven hours, making it the longest vote in the history of the House of Representatives.
Trump has demanded the legislation – known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act – be on his desk by Friday 4 July and spent much of Wednesday holding meetings and phone calls with skeptical Republican lawmakers. As the rule stalled, he wrote on Truth Social: “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!”
For the bill to pass it must approve the version passed by the Senate on Tuesday when vice-president JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote after an all-night session. Johnson has acknowledged the bill “went a little further than many of us would have preferred” in its changes, particularly to Medicaid.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson said as he headed to the House floor for the rule vote: “We’re in a good place right now. This is the legislative process, this is exactly how I think the framers intended for it to work.” But after voting against the motion, Keith Self, a conservative Texas congressman, blasted the bill as having failed to save enough money, curb green energy incentives or crack down on transgender rights.
The bill in its current form would add $3.3tn to the US budget deficit through 2034, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates.

Steven Greenhouse

Last November, Donald Trump made a solemn vow to all Americans: “Every citizen, I will fight for you, your family and your future every single day.” Eight months later, Trump is vigorously backing many policies that will mean pain for millions.

Trump has pushed to enact the Republican budget bill, which would make significant cuts to Medicaid, Obamacare, and food assistance, and would do the greatest damage to those Americans struggling hardest to make ends meet – the 30% of the US population that lives in households earning under $50,000 a year.

Even as Trump and Republican lawmakers are rushing to cut over $1.4tn in health and food assistance for non-affluent Americans, Trump continues to pressure Congress to extend over $3tn in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and corporations.

Trump has embraced these Robin-Hood-in-reverse policies, even though it was voters earning less than $50,000 a year who delivered victory to him last November. They favored him over Kamala Harris by 50% to 48%, according to exit polls, while Trump and Harris tied among voters earning $50,000 or more a year.

Several social policy experts said Trump has engaged in hypocrisy at best and betrayal at worst when it comes to the working-class and blue-collar Americans he promised to fight for. Speaking about the Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget bill, Sharon Parrott, president of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, said: “Who’s getting hit, who’s bearing the cost? It’s people with low and middle incomes, people that the president and many Republican policymakers promised to serve and support in the last election.”

Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries says he is halfway through telling stories of the American people in relation to Medicaid.

He says:

It appears that I am about halfway through the stories as it relates to Medicaid but the extraordinary thing about this bill is that it represents such an unprecedented assault on the American people.

There are stories that need to be told as it relates to the attack on nutritional assistance for the American people. And I will tell those stories. Stories that need to be told as it relates to the attack on farmers in this country. And I will tell those stories.

He goes on to say the bill also represents an attack on small businesses and veterans, who should be able to “live with the dignity and respect that they have earned”.

Elsewhere, US president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy are expected to discuss the abrupt halt in some key US weapons deliveries to Kyiv in a call on Friday, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

Zelenskyy would also raise potential future arms sales, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the planning.

Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.

Jeffries says he will ‘take my sweet time’

Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries has told the House that he intends to “take my sweet time” telling the stories of the American people who rely on Medicaid.

He says he will keep on reading out letters from people who will be affected by the bill.

Addressing the House, he says:

It had been my hope, Mr Speaker, that we would be able to have a passionate debate of passionate support and passionate opposition and connection with this bill, that hundreds of members of both sides of this aisle had participated in.

Instead we have a limited debate… and because that debate was so limited, I feel the obligation, Mr Speaker, to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time to tell the stories of the American people.

And that’s exactly what I intend to do; take my sweet time on behalf of the American people.

Jeffries resumes reading out letters from American people he says will be affected negatively by the president’s bill.

In the latest Guardian Politics Weekly America podcast, Jonathan Freedland is joined by Eleanor Mueller of Semafor to look at the potential fallout from Donald Trump’s tax-and-spending bill – financially and politically.

You can listen to the full episode here.

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Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is reading out correspondence from people who rely on Medicaid and highlighting its importance in their lives.

In response to ‘Gwendoline from Arizona’, he says:

Let me speak directly… her Representative might not be fighting on your behalf. As House Democrats, we are here to say; we agree.

Medicaid matters and it must be preserved. It must be preserved because Medicaid matters to millions of people all across this great country.

To children, to seniors, to people with disabilities, to women, to families, to people in every corner of the United States of America.

Bill an ‘abomination’ that will ‘reward billionaires’, says Jeffries

Jeffries continued:

Every single Democrat stands in strong opposition to this bill because we are standing up for the American people.

He questioned why, if the Republicans were so proud of the bill, the debate had begun in the early hours. Many of his comments were followed by applause.

Jeffries said the bill would “hurt everyday Americans” and “people in America will die unncessary deaths”. He added:

That is outrageous, that is disgusting. That is not what we should be doing here in the United States House of Representatives.

Here are some of the images from the last 24 hours in Washington DC:

Protesters rallied near the Capitol and called for the resignation of President Trump on Wednesday as the budget bill was discussed in Congress. Photograph: Sue Dorfman/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

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 Capitol on Wednesday. Photograph: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images

Protesters rallied near the Capitol on Wednesday. Photograph: Sue Dorfman/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

House ways and means committee chair Republican Jason Smith (R-MO) speaks in a television interview outside the House chamber in the Capitol on Wednesday. Photograph: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images

It is 4.46am in Washington DC. A final vote is expected at about 5.30 am, according to reports. We will bring updates as soon as they come in.

For the moment, the final debate is taking place and can be followed via the live stream at the top of this blog.

Flanked by nearly every member of his caucus, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, of New York delivered a pointed message: With all Democrats voting “no,” they only need to flip four Republicans to prevent the bill from passing, reports the Associated Press (AP).

Jeffries invoked the “courage” of the late Sen. John McCain giving a thumbs-down to the GOP effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, and singled out Republicans from districts expected to be highly competitive in 2026, including two from Pennsylvania.

“Why would Rob Bresnahan vote for this bill? Why would Scott Perry vote for this bill?” Jeffries asked.

Democrats have described the bill in dire terms, warning that Medicaid cuts would result in lives lost and food stamp cuts would be “literally ripping the food out of the mouths of children, veterans and seniors,” Jeffries said on Monday.

Republicans say they are trying to right-size the safety net programs for the population they were initially designed to serve, mainly pregnant women, disabled people and children, and root out what they describe as waste, fraud and abuse.

The package includes new 80-hour-a-month work requirements for many adults receiving Medicaid and applies existing work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to more beneficiaries. States will also pick up more of the cost for food benefits.

The driving force behind the bill, however, is the tax cuts. Many expire at the end of this year if Congress doesn’t act.

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 with what they would face if the 2017 tax cuts expired.

With a narrow 220-212 majority, Republicans can afford no more than three defections to get a final bill passed, reports Reuters.

Democrats are united in opposition to the bill, saying that its tax breaks disproportionately benefit the wealthy while cutting services that lower- and middle-income Americans rely on. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that almost 12 million people could lose health insurance as a result of the bill.

“This bill is catastrophic. It is not policy, it is punishment,” Democratic representative Jim McGovern said in debate on the House floor.

Republicans in Congress have struggled to stay united in recent years, but they also have not defied Donald Trump since he returned to the White House in January.

Any changes made by the House would require another Senate vote, which would make it all but impossible to meet the 4 July deadline.

The legislation contains most of Trump’s top domestic priorities, from tax cuts to immigration enforcement. The bill would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, cut health and food safety net programs, fund Trump’s immigration crackdown, and zero out many green-energy incentives. It also includes a $5tn increase in the nation’s debt ceiling, which lawmakers must address in the coming months or risk a devastating default.

The Medicaid cuts have also raised concerns among some Republicans, prompting the Senate to set aside more money for rural hospitals.

Now that the House has voted to advance the bill, a final debate on the floor has begun. You can follow it via the live stream video at the top of the blog.

The debate will be followed by a final vote on the bill.

US House Republicans advance Trump tax-cut bill opening way for debate

The House voted 219-213 to move forward.

Another update on Scott Perry by way of Fox News’s Chad Pergram and Dan Scully on X:

Johnson on GOP PA Rep Perry on leaving DC to go back to PA. The House is waiting for him to return to the Capitol: It’s a two hour drive home, so he went home to get a change of clothes and all of that. So it’s very practical reason for it.

While we wait for updates, here is a handy explainer of what is in Donald Trump’s major tax bill:

According to multiple reports, Republican Scott Perry returned home to Pennsylvania and the holdouts are unwilling to vote until he returns, as they want to vote as a bloc.

Donald Trump spoke to holdouts by phone early this morning, Fox confirms.

According to the NYT, speaker Mike Johnson said the delay is partly due to members wanting additional time to go through the changes made in the Senate. The publication reports that Johnson told reporters just after 1.30am on Thursday:

It will have all been worth it in the end. And we will meet our July 4 deadline, which everybody mocked when I said it.

House speaker Mike Johnson has said they are “about to get those votes right now” and he expects final vote “by early morning”, reports Chad Pergram, senior congressional correspondent for Fox News.

On the holdouts, Johnson reportedly said: “We’re about to get those votes right now.”

Johnson to quell internal House Republican revolt over Senate changes to Trump’s tax bill – live updates

US House Republicans advance Trump tax-cut bill opening way for debate

Closing summary

Jeffries says he will ‘take my sweet time’

The winners and losers of Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ – podcast

Bill an ‘abomination’ that will ‘reward billionaires’, says Jeffries

US House Republicans advance Trump tax-cut bill opening way for debate

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