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Trump's ‘big, beautiful' tax bill passes US House vote, Speaker Johnson reveals key features of the Act

Trump's ‘big, beautiful' tax bill passes US House vote, Speaker Johnson reveals key features of the Act

Time of Indiaa day ago
House Republicans lifted US President Donald Trump's $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage Thursday, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a self-imposed Fourth of July deadline. The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all the Democrats in opposition. GOP leaders worked overnight, and the president himself leaned on a handful of sceptics to drop their opposition and send the bill to his desk to become law.
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