The text, with some changes, was approved by the House of Representatives by 218 votes against 214, after the Senate did the same before.
Some Republicans finally understood the relevance of this great project and put aside their differences to give another great victory to President Trump, to the conservatism and the Americans. Not so in the Senate, where three Republican senators joined the Democrats in their vote.
Trump signed the decisive document in his oval office and made him law through his signature, hours before the United States Independence Day, on July 4, as requested.
“There could be no better birthday gift for the United States than the phenomenal victory we achieved just a few hours ago,” Trump told Thursday to his supporters in Des Moines, capital of Iowa, in a rally that opened the celebrations for the 250º years of the independence of the United States.
“In a nutshell, this unique and beautiful law would create the strongest border on Earth, the strongest economy on Earth, the strongest army on Earth, and would ensure that the United States of America remains the strongest country of this beautiful planet,” he added.
In the Senate, the text of more than 940 pages had several amendments and for that reason it had to be sent again to the lower house, where it had already been approved previously, but without the current changes.
In a closed 50-50 vote, vice president JD Vance gave the decisive vote in the upper house, with three Republicans opposing.
“I think it would be very prudent for all Republicans to join. It is an excellent bill,” Trump told La Prensa on July 1 during his visit to the new Immigrant Detention Center in South Florida.
Republican senator John Hoeven, from North Dakota, indicated that the vice president, JD Vance, was summoned to issue decisive votes on several final changes to the legislation, including the huge package of changes negotiated by the republican leaders of the Senate, known as the “Substitute” amendment.
“We will need it in the substitute bill,” said Hoeven on Vance.
The internal opposition
The impulse of the Republican Party in the Senate occurred after 24 hours of intense negotiations between the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate John Thune, Vance and the Republicans who resisted, including Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, who announced her retirement for the next primary elections.
Senan Susan Collins de Maine, Rand Paul de Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina finally joined the 47 Democrats to vote against.
Trump defended his budget plan on his Truth Social platform, where he said that the project is “perhaps the largest and the most important in its kind in history”, and said that if it was not approved it would imply “a tax increase of 68%, the largest in history.”
Among the benefits of this bill, which will now be law, are: the exemption of taxes on tips and extra working hours, which frees tens of millions of Americans from payments.
Another proposal is the increase in the SALT deductions limit, which allows those who live in places with high state taxes and on the property deduce more expenses up to $ 40,000 and not 10,000 dollars now. The increase in fiscal credit for children is joined to $ 2,500 for each child under 17 years until 2028 and the elimination of tax credits for loans in the automotive sector of electric vehicles and the probability of deductions in those made in the US with combustion engine.
After more than a month of deliberations, the Senate modified the version of the House of Representatives to expand tax reductions to companies, deepen the fraud cuts found in the Medicaid, mobilize 4.5 billion (Trillions) of dollars to lower taxes and eliminate the moratorium to state restrictions against artificial intelligence, among others.
Trump has just consolidated his agenda for the second term.
“This bill is the agenda of President Trump, and we are making him law,” said the president of the Mike Johnson representatives. “Republicans are” prepared to finish the job, “he said hours before his final approval.
Fulfill the promises
With the approval of the budget in Congress, Trump begins to fulfill his promises to cut taxes on tips and overtime work, expand the measures of migratory control and national security, the general defense of the nation, stop the programs created by the Woke trend, reduce federal bureaucratic and partisan expenses, make their 2017 tax reductions permanent, develop the country’s infrastructure Green energy and strengthen the extraction and export of oil and other fossil fuels to make 100% independent in energy to the US, among other purposes.
The White House tenant asked the Republicans to join and pass their megaproject to sign it before or on July 4, the US Independence Day.
The final approval of the budget represents the great door for the “America First” platform, which brings together all its government policies.
The Republican leader will combine the funds obtained by tariffs to finance their economic, social and foreign policy programs.
In recent days, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the official closure of the International Aid Agency (USAID) that operated with federal taxpayers funds.
The closure of this and other agencies, created in previous decades, is part of the strategy of President Trump to maximize financial waste, the embezzlement of funds from Americans, fraud, corruption and expenses in political interests far removed from nationals and the security of the country.
The text prolongs the tax credits adopted during Trump’s first mandate (2017-2021), eliminates the tax on tips and overtime work and includes hundreds of billions of additional dollars for defense and immigration control.
Some analysts aligned with the Democrats and the liberal press propose that this budget plan will increase the nation’s debt by more than 3 billion (Trillions) of dollars by 2034; and the fiscal deficit, based on a report by the Congress Budget Office (CBO), which has repeatedly issued wrong reports in both Republican and Democratic governments.
The denials
The Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, has reiterated in various interviews that he has woven much of that budget and considers it as the best economic plan in the history of the United States and neither the tariffs “nor the actions to balance the expenses in Washington will shoot the debt of the country and much less inflation.”
As another part of the financing to avoid the above, the White House will dismantle the fiscal incentives for the so -called renewable energies, adopted by the administration of Joe Biden and that has bothered the billionaire Elon Musk.
Musk, an important agent in Trump’s presidential campaign in 2024, has strongly criticized the leader’s bill and Republicans, because he directly impacts his financial interests on his company of Electric Vehicles Tesla.
Musk has attacked the bill “Porky” arguing that the Billions (Trillions) of additional federal debt dollars would lead the US to bankruptcy.
Trump, since his first term, has transparently defended his impulse to the oil industry and the rest of fossil fuels as he did in his first term, a path opposed to that of Musk and his companies.
But Trump’s special presidential ex -advisor, at the head of the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) until a few weeks ago, went further and said he would form a new party that would seek a balanced federal budget and threatened to intervene in the primary of the Republicans of the congress that support the expense cuts, but that they voted in favor of the bill, to dismiss them
On the criticisms of the owner of Spacex, Neuralink and the social network X to the bill “One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, Besent responded strongly: “I admire Elon’s leadership in rockets.
FRAUD AND REDUCTION OF EXPENSES
As part of the federal government’s expenses reduction actions and frauds that have sharpened in the last 20 years, the new Department of Justice in Washington made a significant announcement.
The judicial authorities of the Trump administration announced having avoided the embezzlement in fraud to the health system, only so far from 2025.
This current offensive against fraud to medical insurance resulted in criminal proceedings against 324 people, said Matthew Galeotti, head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.
Among the 324 defendants are “96 licensed health professionals, including 25 doctors,” said Christopher Delzotto, head of the FBI unit, the Federal Police, in charge of combating fraud in medical insurance.
The fraud attempt is estimated at 14.6 billion dollars. Of this total, “the real loss is 2.9 billion dollars,” he said.
The most important case, made public last week, reveals a Russian headquarters that defrauded the Medicare, the medical insurance program for people over 65, through the use of stolen personal data to more than one million Americans.
This network submitted reimbursement requests for 10.6 billion dollars for various medical devices on behalf of these patients and without their knowledge.
The above shows that both in Social Security and in the health programs of Medicaid and Medicare of the Federal Government, the Trump administration is firm in its announced position to combat corruption, fraud and huge government spending. And his actions extend to all departments in Washington.
The last four years represented the greatest waste of taxpayers’ money in the country’s history.
In recent days, the Supreme Court He lifted an order of a lower court and granted the government efficiency department (Doge) Access to Social Security records (SSA) of millions of Americans.
“The SSA can grant the members of the Doge team of the SSA access to the records of the agency in question so that they can carry out their work,” said the highest court.
The White House states that Doge needed access to carry out its mission of eliminating waste in the federal government.
Musk, who until recently was in charge of Doge, had focused on Social Security for considering it a great focus of fraud. The businessman described him as a “pyramid scam” and insisted that reducing the waste of money in the program is a way to reduce the huge government expense.
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