By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed his bundle of tax breaks and spending cuts into regulation Friday in entrance of Fourth of July picnickers after his cajoling produced virtually unanimous Republican help in Congress for the home precedence that might cement his second-term legacy.
Flanked by Republican legislators and members of his Cupboard, Trump signed the multitrillion-dollar laws at a desk on the White Home driveway, then banged down a gavel gifted to him by Home Speaker Mike Johnson that was used throughout the invoice’s closing passage Thursday.
Towards odds that at instances appeared inconceivable, Trump achieved his aim of celebrating a historic — and divisive — legislative victory in time for the nation’s birthday, which additionally was his self-imposed deadline for Congress to ship the laws to his desk. Fighter jets and stealth bombers streaked via the sky over the annual White Home Fourth of July picnic.
“America’s successful, successful, successful like by no means earlier than,” Trump stated, noting final month’s bombing marketing campaign towards Iran’s nuclear program, which he stated the flyover was meant to honor. “Guarantees made, guarantees stored, and we’ve stored them.”
The White Home was hung with pink, white and blue bunting for the Independence Day festivities. The U.S. Marine Band performed patriotic marches — and, in a typical Trumpian contact, tunes by Eighties pop icons Chaka Khan and Huey Lewis. There have been three separate flyovers.
Trump spoke for a comparatively transient 22 minutes earlier than signing the invoice, however was clearly energized because the laws’s passage topped a latest successful streak for his administration. That included the Iran marketing campaign and a sequence of U.S. Supreme Court docket rulingshe’s fought for.
Vice President JD Vance was touring within the Dakotas along with his household and missed the ceremony. A line on the invoice the place he would have signed due to his function as president of the Senate was crossed out and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., added his identify as a substitute, images present. Cotton has the accountability of stepping in when the vp isn’t accessible for his Senate duties.
The price range laws is the president’s highest-profile win but. It contains key marketing campaign pledges like no tax on suggestions or Social Safety earnings. Trump, who spent an uncommon period of time thanking particular person Republican lawmakers who shepherded the measure via Congress, contended “our nation goes to be a rocket ship, economically,” due to the laws.
Huge cuts to Medicaid and meals stamps
Critics assailed the bundle as a giveaway to the wealthy that can rob tens of millions extra lower-income individuals of their medical insurance, meals help and monetary stability.
A B-2 bomber and two F-22 fighters conduct a flyover throughout a Fourth of July celebration on the White Home, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)
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A B-2 bomber and two F-22 fighters conduct a flyover throughout a Fourth of July celebration on the White Home, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)
“Immediately, Donald Trump signed into regulation the worst job-killing invoice in American historical past. It should rip well being care from 17 million staff to pay for enormous tax giveaways to the rich and large firms, amounting to the nation’s largest cash seize from the working class to the ultra-rich,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler stated in an announcement. “Each member of Congress who voted for this devastating invoice picked the pockets of working individuals at hand billionaires a $5 trillion reward.”
The laws extends Trump’s 2017 multitrillion-dollar tax cuts and cuts Medicaid and meals stamps by $1.2 trillion. It supplies for an enormous improve in immigration enforcement. Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper initiatives that almost 12 million extra individuals will lose medical insurance beneath the regulation.
The laws handed the Home on a largely party-line vote Thursday, culminating a monthslong push by the GOP to cram most of its legislative priorities right into a single price range invoice that could possibly be enacted with out Senate Democrats having the ability to block it indefinitely by filibustering.
It handed by a single vote within the Senate, the place North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis introduced he wouldn’t run for reelection after incurring Trump’s wrath in opposing it. Vance needed to forged the tie-breaking vote.
Within the Home, the place two Republicans voted towards it, one, conservative maverick Tom Massie of Kentucky, has additionally develop into a goal of Trump’s well-funded political operation.
The laws quantities to a repudiation of the agendas of the previous two Democratic presidents, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, in rolling again Obama’s Medicaid enlargement beneath his signature well being regulation and Biden’s tax credit for renewable vitality.
The Congressional Price range Workplace estimates the bundle will add $3.3 trillion to the deficit over the last decade and 11.8 million extra individuals will go with out well being protection.
Democrats vow to make invoice a midterm subject
Democratic Nationwide Committee Chair Ken Martin on Friday referred to as the invoice “devastating” and stated in an announcement that Trump’s signature on the laws “sealed the destiny of the Republican Social gathering, cementing them because the social gathering for billionaires and particular pursuits — not working households.”
He predicted Republicans would lose their majority in Congress over it. “This was a full betrayal of the American individuals,” Martin stated.
Trump exulted in his political victory Thursday evening in Iowa, the place he attended a kickoff of occasions celebrating the nation’s 250th birthday subsequent 12 months.
“I need to thank Republican congressmen and girls, as a result of what they did is unimaginable,” he stated. The president complained that Democrats voted towards the invoice as a result of “they hate Trump — however I hate them, too.”
The bundle is for certain to be a flashpoint in subsequent 12 months’s midterm elections, and Democrats are making formidable plans for rallies, voter registration drives, assault adverts, bus excursions and even a multiday vigil, all supposed to spotlight probably the most controversial parts.
Upon his return to Washington early Friday, Trump described the bundle as “very fashionable,” although polling means that public opinion is combined at greatest.
For instance, a Washington Publish/Ipsos ballot discovered that majorities of U.S. adults help growing the annual baby tax credit score and eliminating taxes on earnings from suggestions, and about half help work necessities for some adults who obtain Medicaid.
However the ballot discovered majorities oppose lowering federal funding for meals help to low-income households and spending about $45 billion to construct and keep migrant detention facilities. About 60% stated it was “unacceptable” that the invoice is anticipated to extend the $36 trillion U.S. debt by greater than $3 trillion over the subsequent decade.
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