Senate Republicans have passed Donald Trump’s so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ by 51-50 after Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote.
BREAKING: Senate passes Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after 11th-hour panic
[image or embed] — Axios (@axios.com) July 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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GOP Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted with Democrats against the bill, requiring a tie-breaking vote from Vance.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.) ended up voting for the legislation after multiple rounds of overnight negotiations. Murkowski strolled out of Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) office shortly before 4am on Tuesday, without giving any indication of how she’d gotten to aye.
At the last moment, Senate GOP leaders doubled the size of a new fund aimed at improving rural health care access to $50 billion — a move aimed at securing Collins’ support.
An amendment to remove the 10-year moratorium on state regulation of AI passed 99-1, with only Tillis voting against it.
Democrats forced votes on dozens of amendments on everything from bolstering Medicaid to gutting tax cuts for wealthy earners, all of which failed on the floor.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has called the House of Representatives back from recess hoping for a Wednesday vote on the updated legislation in order to meet Trump’s self-imposed July 4 deadline.
.@VP JD Vance: “The bill as amended is passed.”
U.S. Senate PASSES GOP Tax & Spending Cuts Bill, 51-50. Goes now to the U.S. House. pic.twitter.com/GtnNBkzGi8 — CSPAN (@cspan) July 1, 2025
This is absurd. Murkowski was the deciding vote. All the GOPers who voted to strip millions of their health coverage & reduce food assistance to millions of kids to give deficit-expanding tax cuts to the wealthy are each responsible for this. But…Murkowski is a little bit more responsible. [image or embed]
— David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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