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The House voted to advance the president Donald Trump’s The $3.3 trillion “big, beautiful bill” to the final stage in Congress overcame fears of a potential Republican rebellion.
It’s a big win for house speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), but the fight isn’t over yet.
Lawmakers voted to advance discussions on the Mammoth-sized Trump Agenda Bill early Thursday. This is a mechanism known as the “rules vote” – a final home-wide vote was submitted late Thursday morning.
The House adopted the rules for debate over the measure, with a dramatic 219-213 votes.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, left to the left during an Instagram America roundtable held in the state dining room of the White House in Washington on June 9, 2025, with President Donald Trump shaking his hands. (via Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg Getty Images)
Voting has been stagnant for hours starting Wednesday afternoon, with five House Republicans poised to kill the measure before weighing down the lawmakers themselves.
Meanwhile, the Conservative Freedom Caucus and several members of its allies appeared ready to skip the vote completely in protest of the GOP leader’s compromise bill.
But both Johnson and Trump have spent hours negotiating holdouts, apparently for some degree of success.
However, the process may still take some time. Democrats were able to call various procedural votes to delay final action, just as they did when the law first passed the House in late May.
Furthermore, the bill itself could face opposition from both moderates and conservative Republicans.
Conservative lawmakers threatened to derail the recent rule ballot on Wednesday over a Senate change that was made by the Senate, which claimed the Finance Hawks would add billions of dollars to the federal deficit.
However, these concerns appear to outweigh the pressure from House GOP leaders and the president himself. He himself urged House Republicans to coalesce around the bill.
The Senate passed a version of the bill late Tuesday morning, changing House regulations regarding Medicaid cost sharing with states, imposing tax measures and increasing the debt cap.
Senate passes Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after voting for the marathon
Senate Majority Leader John Tune guided the bill through his chamber of commerce with just one vote. (Getty)
Moderates are cautious about Senate measures to shift more Medicaid costs to states that have expanded their programs under Obamacare, but conservatives said These cuts aren’t enough offset additional spending in other parts of the bill.
Two members of the Conservative Freedom Caucus sitting on the House Rules Committee, RC Rep. Ralph Norman and R-Texas Chip Roy voted against the measure to consider the bill during the 12-hour hearing of the Rules Committee.
Johnson himself publicly urged the Senate to make changes as much as possible in the preparations for the vote. However, the upper chamber bill was ultimately passed with a narrow margin just like the home.
“I’m not happy with what the Senate did to our products,” Johnson told reporters late Tuesday afternoon. “We understand that this is a process of coming and going and that we are working to ensure that all members are yes.”
But after the Senate passed the bill to encourage House Republicans to do the same, Trump worked on a society of truth.
“It’s no longer a “House Bill” or a “Senate Bill.” That’s everyone’s bill. There was a lot to be proud of, and everyone has achieved a great policy victory. But their biggest winners are the American people who have taxes, higher wages, home wages, safe borders, taxes with stronger armies, higher wages, stronger armies.”
“We can have all this now, but the House GOPs will unite and do the right thing that is sending this bill to my desk, ignoring the occasional “ancestors (who are you?”). We’re continuing to do that.
Both the House and Senate deal with a majority of GOPs, each with only three votes and a thin slender vote.
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The bill will forever extend the income tax range reduced by Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Employment Act (TCJA), while also adding a temporary new tax credit to eliminate slopes and overtime wage duties up to certain limits.
It also includes a new tax credit for people over the age of 65.
The law also repeats the Green Energy Tax Credit implemented under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which Trump and his allies attacked as “Green New Scams.”
The bill would also spike funds towards national defense and for immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) in the name of Trump’s crackdown on US illegal immigration.
The bill will raise debt limits by $5 trillion to avoid potentially economically devastating credit defaults this summer if the US runs out of cash to pay its obligations.
The bill, among other provisions, provided about $46 billion to Trump’s border wall. (Fox News)
New and expanded work requirements will be implemented for Medicaid and federal food aid.
Democrats denounced the bill as a tax gift to the wealthy, cutting down the federal interests of working-class Americans.
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However, Republicans say their tax provisions are aimed at taxes and the middle class. This cites measures to eliminate taxes on tipping and overtime wages.
D-FLA. Progressive Congressman Maxwell Frost told reporters that it was Democrats’ intention to delay Wednesday’s lawsuit as much as possible.
“This last progression, we were able to delay the bill for over 30 hours, and we’ll do the same and do everything we can from a procedural perspective to delay this,” Frost said.
Meanwhile, there have been previous concerns about whether the weather delays in Washington could delay reaching Congressman Hill in time for the planned vote.
“We are closely monitoring the weather,” Johnson told reporters. “There are a lot of delays right now.”
Dan Scully of Fox News contributed to this report.
