{"id":39717,"date":"2025-07-05T03:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39717\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T03:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T03:09:13","slug":"trump-signs-tax-and-spending-bill-into-law-in-major-win-for-administration-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39717\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs tax-and-spending bill into law in major win for administration | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> signed his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at the White House, significantly cutting back on federal safety-net programs and increasing funds for aggressive immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

During the picnic, Trump gloated about the bill\u2019s passing. \u201cIt\u2019s the most popular bill ever signed in the history of the country,\u201d Trump said, while standing next to his wife, Melania Trump. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve done is put everything into one bill. We\u2019ve never had anything like that before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump previously touted the legislation\u2019s passage as a \u201cbirthday present for America\u201d, speaking <\/strong>before a crowd at a campaign-style rally in Iowa on Thursday evening<\/a>, even as Democrats expressed their displeasure at the spending package.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you see anything negative put out by the Democrats, it\u2019s all a con job,\u201d Trump said of opposition to the bill.<\/p>\n

Trump signed the bill while surrounded by supporters, including the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who gave Trump the gavel he used to enact it.<\/p>\n

After months of deliberations, the bill passed by a single vote in the Senate and later passed the House with a 219 to 213 vote on Thursday, with only two Republicans voting against it. The sweeping legislation accomplishes what rightwingers have pushed for, for decades, as the Guardian explained<\/a> this week, and provides Trump a huge legislative win.<\/p>\n

The law will significantly cut taxes, building on the 2017 tax cuts during Trump\u2019s first term. Although temporary tax exemptions for tips, overtime pay and car loan interest are included, research<\/a> from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows that the bill is skewed to the rich, with the wealthiest in the US benefiting the most from the tax relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter this kicks in, our country is going to be a rocket ship, economically,\u201d Trump said during Friday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the law will add new restrictions to Medicaid, which provides healthcare to low-income and disabled people, and Snap, also known as food stamps, which helps low-income people afford food. Researchers estimate<\/a> that the Medicaid cutbacks will leave as many as 11.8 million people without healthcare, while 8 million people will lose their Snap benefits. Critics say that the Medicaid cuts will have massive ripple effects on healthcare nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is highway robbery,\u201d the Democratic senator Raphael Warnock posted<\/a> on X, formerly known as Twitter. \u201cThe bill Republicans just passed steals from you to give to the rich.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proponents of the law say that the Medicaid and Snap changes are designed to root out waste and abuse.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the spending package will allocate $170m to immigration enforcement, a monumental amount of money that will help support the Trump administration\u2019s push to engage in \u201cmass deportations\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis disgraceful, anti-immigrant budget hands the Trump administration a blank check to further ramp up its shameful efforts to terrorize American communities and separate families,\u201d said Nicole Melaku, the executive director of the National Partnership for New Americans, an immigrants\u2019 rights organization. \u201cInstead of safeguarding people\u2019s access to healthcare and wellness, the bill gives tax cuts to big corporations and funnels billions of dollars to hire more immigration agents, build more immigration jails and deny people their fair day in court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already, the Trump administration has engaged in widespread attacks on immigrant communities, by increasing resources to immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis budget promises to supercharge US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests that disappear community members, leave children parentless and threaten constitutional and due-process rights for all of us,\u201d said Meg McCarthy, executive director of the National Immigrant Justice Center, alegal organization.<\/p>\n

A recent Guardian analysis shows that undocumented immigrants without any criminal history have been arrested at an exponentially increasing rate, after top White House officials instructed agents to increase arrests.<\/p>\n

Trump temporarily walked back some of Ice\u2019s aggressive immigration enforcement actions after complaints from leaders in the farming and hospitality industries: last month, the Trump administration engaged in a short-lived pause on raids at farms, restaurants and hotels. But at Thursday\u2019s event, Trump again brought up the idea of pausing large-scale enforcement on farms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a farmer is willing to vouch for these people in some way, Kristi, I think we\u2019re going to have to just say that\u2019s going to be good, right?\u201d Trump said to the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to do it where we take all of the workers off the farms.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to tax cuts, restrictions on Medicaid and Snap and the aggressive supercharging of immigration enforcement, the law seeks to end green energy incentives created under Joe Biden, seen as a further blow against efforts to combat the climate crisis.<\/p>\n

The US budget deficit will increase with this law, leading to opposition by some Trump allies. The non-partisan congressional budget office estimates the law will add $3.3tn to the country\u2019s debt through 2034, leading to clashes with some rightwingers.<\/p>\n

One of the two Republicans who voted against it, Thomas Massie, said<\/a> he opposed the spending bill \u201cbecause it will significantly increase US budget deficits in the near term, negatively impacting all Americans through sustained inflation and high interest rates\u201d.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk<\/a>, the rightwing billionaire who established the federal government\u2019s office tasked with slashing federal spending during the first few months of the Trump administration, has also publicly called out the spending bill. Days before Congress passed the bill, Musk repeated<\/a> his call for the creation of a new political party to oppose the Republicans and Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump signed his sweeping spending package into law on Friday during a Fourth of July picnic at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-39717","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\/114798432354346864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39717","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=39717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}