Sunday, 01 June 2025

BREAKING: “America First” Agenda PASSES by Razor Thin Margin! (Big Beautiful Bill!)

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President Trump’s “America First” agenda just took one giant leap towards becoming the law of the land this morning.

In a razor thin vote, the US House PASSED the sweeping legislation!

The enormous bill contains everything from ending tax on tips to huge funding for the border wall and deportations.

It also makes President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts PERMANENT, which is one reason Democrats fought so hard against it.

According to journalist Nick Sortor, the House of Representatives erupted in applause upon the passage:

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Here’s the full screen version of the clip Nick shared in his X post.

This is the moment Speaker Johnson literally slammed the gavel on this legislation, declaring “The bill is passed”:

President Trump announced the passage on his Truth Social account.

He declared it to be the most ‘significant’ legislation that will ever come across a President’s desk:

He referred to the “MASSIVE Tax CUTS”, which includes the avoidance of the largest single tax INCREASE in history, if the bill had failed.

Here’s the full text of President Trump’s comments:

“THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL” has PASSED the House of Representatives! This is arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that will ever be signed in the History of our Country! The Bill includes MASSIVE Tax CUTS, No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, Tax Deductions when you purchase an American Made Vehicle, along with strong Border Security measures, Pay Raises for our ICE and Border Patrol Agents, Funding for the Golden Dome, “TRUMP Savings Accounts” for newborn babies, and much more! Great job by Speaker Mike Johnson, and the House Leadership, and thank you to every Republican who voted YES on this Historic Bill! Now, it’s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work, and send this Bill to my desk AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! There is no time to waste. The Democrats have lost control of themselves, and are aimlessly wandering around, showing no confidence, grit, or determination. They have forgotten their landslide loss in the Presidential Election, and are warped in the past, hoping someday to revive Open Borders for the World’s criminals to be able to pour into our Country, men to be able to play in women’s sports, and transgender for everybody. They don’t realize that these things, and so many more like them, will NEVER AGAIN happen!

As has been the case in the weeks leading up to this morning’s vote, House Republicans had a hard time pulling together enough unity to make it happen.

The vote was RAZOR THIN, passing by a 215-214 victory.

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One of the good guys in the House (if you ask me) that argued in favor of additional work requirements for Medicaid exited the vote excited that it had passed:

From his comments, it is obvious that the group of Representatives pushing for even bigger cuts ended up compromising more than they would have liked.

But Rep. Burchett definitely chalked today’s vote up as a win for President Trump’s agenda, and America’s future.

Speaker Johnson ultimately pulled together enough consensus to drive the President’s agenda forward and on to the Senate, according to The Hill:

House Republicans on Thursday morning passed a sweeping bill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities, marking a major win for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) but kicking off what’s expected to be a bitter battle with the Senate over achieving key parts of the White House’s policy agenda.

The chamber cleared the sprawling package in a 215-214 early-morning vote after days of marathon meetings, intense negotiations that spanned both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and a series of last-minute changes to the bill that were crucial in coalescing Republicans around the measure.

Republicans on the House floor erupted in cheers and applause when Johnson slammed the gavel just before 7 a.m. EDT to close the successful vote.

The bill — titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” adopting Trump’s slogan for the measure — extends the tax cuts enacted by the president during his first term in 2017; boosts funding for border, deportation, and national defense priorities; imposes reforms, like beefed-up work requirements, on Medicaid that are projected to result in millions of low-income individuals losing health insurance; rolls back green energy tax incentives; and, among many other provisions, increases the debt limit by $4 trillion.

“This is a big day,” Johnson said at a press conference surrounded by GOP leadership after the vote. “We said on the House floor: It’s finally morning in America again.”

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“Today, the House has passed generational, truly nation-shaping legislation to reduce spending and permanently lower taxes for families and job-creators, secure the border, unleash American energy dominance, restore peace through strength and make government work more efficiently and effectively for all Americans,” he added.

But as previously referenced, there were holdouts.

Every single Democrat in the House presented a united a front AGAINST the bill.

And every single Republican ultimately threw their weight behind the President’s agenda: except two.

One of the holdouts was Thomas Massie, who I generally really like.

He stuck to his guns on the basis that there is no guarantee Congress will do it’s job in the future to offset the spending included in this bill.

Here’s his comments as he shared them via X:

The other Republican who ultimately voted with the Democrats was Rep. Warren Davidson.

He balked at the President’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ for similar reasons as Massie.

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He agreed — the bill WOULD grow the economy and shrink the deficit over the next 10 years.

But he argued that “the only Congress we can control is the one we’re in”, saying it’s foolish to bring a bill that is based on a PERMANENT change, rather than a 10-year plan:

Those two “No” votes endured a visit the night before from President Trump.

He held a meeting with a larger group of holdouts in the Capitol, and apparently succeeded in convincing all but those two, according to a report in Newsweek:

Some Republicans broke ranks and joined every House Democrat in voting against the “big, beautiful bill” for which President Donald Trump and House GOP leadership spent weeks wrangling votes.

Before Thursday’s vote, Johnson and Trump met at the White House with a group of GOP holdouts, aiming to convince them to vote in favor of the bill. The House speaker emerged from the meeting confident that it would pass, telling reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, “I believe we’re going to land this airplane. The ‘America First’ agenda is wrapped up in this one big, beautiful bill.”

The House of Representatives has 220 Republicans and 212 Democrats, meaning that Johnson could only afford to lose three GOP votes heading into the floor vote.

The spending bill’s fate was still uncertain heading into the vote, with some House Freedom Caucus members signaling that they were hard no’s from the onset, while other Republicans who were initially opposed later flipped their votes and supported the measure.

Here are the Republicans who voted against the Trump-backed bill:

  • Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
  • Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio.

    • Representative Andy Harris of Maryland, the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, voted “present.” Two Republicans, Representatives David Schweikert of Arizona and Andrew Garbarino of New York, did not vote.

    At the end of the day, there is still a lot of road ahead of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ before it can land beneath the President’s pen in the Oval.

    It will now go to the Senate where it will go through the same process of tweaks and adjustments that it endured in the House.

    Then, the House will have to give it’s final approval to the Senate’s modified version… AGAIN.

    This is far from over.  But today’s thin victory may prove to have been the largest hurdle for President Trump’s “America First” agenda.

    This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

    View the original article here.


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