The Chamber of Representatives gave the final green light to the budget law wanted by the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The text passed with 218 votes in favor and 214 against. To the announcement of approval by the speaker Mike Johnson, Republican deputies began to intone the “USA USA” choir. As expected, Donald Trump will now sign the aforementioned expenditure law, the day of American independence.
Johnson managed to convince a small group of internal opponents, worried by the strong increase in spending, to return to the ranks after a long night marathon. The “Big Beautiful Bill” can now be signed by President Donald Trump, who thus marks an important political victory. The final vote was postponed due to the intervention, which lasted almost nine hours, of the leader of the democratic minority, Hakeem Jeffries. The text had already been approved by both branches of the congress and returned to the Chamber for the final reading. The package honors many of the electoral promises of Trump: the increase in military spending, the financing of a mass deportation campaign of migrants and the allocation of 4,500 billion dollars to extend the tax breaks of his first term.
“Today we are throwing a fundamental milestone for the new American golden age,” Johnston said. The provision will increase the deficit of 3,400 billion dollars in ten years, an aggravation of budget partly compensated by the cuts to the federal food assistance program and medical health insurance for low -income Americans. Some estimates indicate that the total number of beneficiaries destined to lose insurance coverage due to the bill will be 17 million. Dozens of rural hospitals is expected.
If moderate republicans fear that cuts damage their prospects for re -election, the fiscal hawks have been irritated for the savings that, according to them, are well below what is promised. Democrats hope that the discontent for welfare cuts help them overturn the balance to the congress in the medium -term elections of 2026. The extra expenditure for the army and safety of the boundaries will be financed with the partial revocation of the subsidies for renewable energy and electric vehicles, a point at the base of the heated clash on the text between Trump and his former preed Elon Musk.