President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” was passed by the U.S. Senate on Tuesday following a tie-breaking vote by Vice President J.D. Vance.
According to Fox News, the president’s “big, beautiful bill” was passed with a 50-50 vote on Tuesday and a tie-breaking vote cast by Vance. The outlet noted that all of the Republican senators voted in favor of the bill except Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). Fox News also reported that all of the Democrat senators voted against the bill on Tuesday.
The Daily Wire reported that the bill passed by the Senate includes an extension to the Trump tax cuts that were implemented in 2017 and were initially scheduled to expire later this year, significant reductions in energy production regulations, increased funding for the military and border security, and a multi-trillion-dollar increase in the debt ceiling.
Following the vice president’s tie-breaking vote in the Senate, Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will now head back for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In a joint statement following the Senate’s vote on the “big, beautiful bill,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said, “The House will work quickly to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill that enacts President Trump’s full America First agenda by the Fourth of July. The American people gave us a clear mandate, and after four years of Democrat failure, we intend to deliver without delay. Republicans were elected to do exactly what this bill achieves: secure the border, make tax cuts permanent, unleash American energy dominance, restore peace through strength, cut wasteful spending, and return to a government that puts Americans first.”
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“This bill is President Trump’s agenda, and we are making it law,” Johnson added. “House Republicans are ready to finish the job and put the One Big Beautiful Bill on President Trump’s desk in time for Independence Day.”
A video shared on X, formerly Twitter, by the White House’s Rapid Response 47 account shows the moment the president was informed that the Senate had passed the bill on Tuesday.
Trump was told about the Senate’s vote during a roundtable event after touring the new “Alligator Alcatraz” illegal immigrant detention center in Florida.
“You know, I’m waiting, listening to these wonderful words, and they are music to my ears, but I was also wondering how we doing, because I know this is prime time, it shows that I care about you, because I’m here and I probably should be there, but we do care,” Trump said.
This was a breaking news story. The details were periodically updated as more information became available.
