President Donald Trump used the White Home’s Fourth of July celebrations because the backdrop for his closing victory lap over his large spending invoice.
The president signed the laws, which can deliver large cuts to authorities advantages corresponding to Medicaid and improve funding for immigration enforcement, throughout the White Home’s army household picnic on Friday night.
“We’re including issues like the most important tax minimize within the historical past of our nation, a baby tax credit score. So many issues are being added that we would not even have time to debate them after we have been doing it,” he stated.
President Donald Trump presents a sweeping spending and tax laws, often called the “One Huge Stunning Invoice Act,” after h signed it, on the White Home in Washington, D.C., July 4, 2025.
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Trump pushed Congress to cross the invoice by July 4th as some Republicans held out over a number of points, together with the invoice’s impact on the debt ceiling.
“It contains the biggest tax minimize in American historical past, the biggest spending minimize $1.7 trillion. And but you will not even discover it. Simply waste, fraud and abuse in American historical past,” he stated in a speech from the White Home.
The White Home celebrations for the Fourth of July included a number of flyovers, together with one that includes B-2 bombers. The president stated Thursday that the flyover will happen on the similar time he indicators the invoice; nevertheless, it finally happened earlier than the signing.
Trump touted the army in a speech reiterating their successes, together with throughout the June 22 Iranian bombing mission, and chastising the final administration.
4 F-22 plane participate in a flyover, marking Independence Day, on the White Home in Washington, D.C., July 4, 2025.
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“We did not have any crashes. We did not lose any planes. We did not lose anyone. These lovely planes that you just noticed have been completely stealth. They flew proper over the middle of a really hostile nation, they usually by no means even noticed it coming,” he stated.
Democrats criticized the president and the invoice’s supporters over its cuts to companies that assist the poorest People. The invoice institutes work necessities for Medicaid that some consultants say will make hundreds of thousands of People uninsured, and makes cuts to this system that may end in closures of well being facilities in rural areas, in response to well being care employers.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson holds a gavel as he attends a Fourth of July celebration on the South Garden on the White Home, July 4, 2025, in Washington, D.C., as he talks with Rep. Tom Emmer, Rep. Steve Scalise, and others.
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On Thursday, Home Democratic chief Hakeem Jeffries broke the chamber’s document with an eight-hour, 44-minute speech decrying the invoice.
“We wished to make it possible for the American folks had a chance to completely and extra fully understands, within the gentle of day, simply how damaging this one massive, ugly invoice shall be to the American folks,” he stated.
Trump lampooned Jeffries, claiming that every little thing the Democrats have been saying in regards to the invoice was a “con job.”
“They’ve developed an ordinary line, ‘We won’t allow them to get away with it. Oh, it is harmful. Oh, all people’s going to die.’ It is truly simply the alternative. Everyone’s going to reside,” Trump stated.
