Trump's 'big beautiful bill' passes final hurdle in US Congress

Donald Trump's 'big beauteous bill' has been passed by the US congress, sending it to the president to motion into law.

The arguable taxation breaks and spending cuts bundle cleared its last hurdle arsenic the Republican-controlled House of Representatives narrowly approved the measure with a 218-214 vote.

The measure delivers taxation breaks Mr Trump promised successful his 2024 predetermination campaign, cuts wellness and nutrient information programmes, and zeroes retired dozens of greenish vigor incentives.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, it volition little taxation revenues by $4.5trn implicit 10 years and adhd $3.4trn to the US's $36.2trn debt.

But contempt concerns implicit the 869-page bill's terms tag - and its deed to healthcare programmes - Republicans mostly lined up successful support, with conscionable 2 rebelling connected the vote.

Every Democrat successful Congress voted against the bill, blasting it arsenic a giveaway to the affluent that volition permission millions of Americans uninsured.

House Speaker Mike Johnson made the Republicans' closing statement for the bill, telling Congress: "For mundane Americans, this means real, affirmative alteration that they tin feel."

Earlier, the House's Democratic person Hakeem Jeffries gave a record-breaking eight-hour and 44-minute code against it.

"The absorption of this bill, the justification for each of the cuts that volition wounded mundane Americans, is to supply monolithic taxation breaks for billionaires," helium said.

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The measure narrowly passed the US Senate connected Tuesday aft vice president JD Vance formed the deciding ballot to interruption a 50-50 tie.

Mr Trump volition motion it into instrumentality connected Friday astatine 5pm, the White House said.