{"id":35048,"date":"2025-07-03T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35048\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:29:09","slug":"trumps-big-spending-bill-heads-to-final-vote-in-us-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35048\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s big spending bill heads to final vote in US House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Final vote expected on Trump&#8217;s signature billpublished at 09:01 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>09:01 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/17eea9ed-9983-4614-8128-dee6fb273093.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>James FitzGerald<\/strong><br \/>North America reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US President Donald Trump\u2019s mega-bill on tax and<br \/>\nspending could soon become law, with a final vote expected in the coming hours<br \/>\nin the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump\u2019s bill, which could define his second presidency,<br \/>\nhas faced an uneasy passage so far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several members of his own Republican Party<br \/>\nhave joined opposition Democrats in criticising the bill for a variety of<br \/>\nreasons \u2013 including the impact on US national debt, and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, in the past hour, those Republican holdouts flipped<br \/>\n\u2013 meaning that a key procedural hurdle was passed, setting up the final ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That will be welcome news for the president, who has personally<br \/>\nput pressure on rebel Republicans to try to get this sprawling legislation signed<br \/>\noff by Friday &#8211; when the US celebrates Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ongoing proceedings represent the second gruelling overnight<br \/>\nsession for Congress members this week, after the bill ground through the<br \/>\nupper chamber, or Senate, about 24 hours ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Final vote expected on Trump&#8217;s signature billpublished at 09:01 British Summer Time 09:01 BST James FitzGeraldNorth America reporter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-35048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114788837999843143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}