House Passes Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' After Conservative 'Goodies' Stripped by Senate

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jul. 03, 2025

Republicans went ahead and passed President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" in the House on Thursday despite most of the "goodies" in the bill for conservatives having been stripped out in the Senate.

The ten GOP holdouts who had criticized the bill all caved, save Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.


The bill at its core cuts taxes on the rich and transfers their tax burden to the poor and young people who will be saddled with the debt.

The bill includes $25 billion for the creation of a "Golden Dome" missile defense system which the US has no pressing need for but will likely simply be transferred to Israel.

"This project, which could cost as much as $542B, is aimed at taking away our best and brightest from pressing US needs to develop new Iron Dome tech to share with Israel," I noted last month on X.



The bill will bring the US 2026 military budget to over $1 trillion.

Though measures conservatives fought for such as the deregulation of silencers were stripped from the bill by the Senate parliamentarian, senators made sure to add back "a provision fought for by Orthodox Jewish groups" to create "a major new national school-choice program" and give "tax credit for individuals who donate to scholarship programs for children" in religious schools, Jewish Insider reported.

In contrast, the proposed remittance tax aimed at clawing back some of the billions sent out of our country by foreigners was shrunk from 5 percent to just 1 percent.

As Massie noted last week, a ban on funding sex changes for minors was also stripped from the bill in the Senate.

From USA Today, "House passes Trump's mega bill, securing a big win for the GOP agenda":
The fight is over: Republicans’ sweeping bill to cut taxes and slash benefit programs like Medicaid has passed out of Congress and is on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law during a July 4 ceremony at the White House.

The 218-214 House vote came after a full day of negotiations July 2, an overnight debate and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, delivering the longest House speech on record. Trump met at the White House with skeptical GOP lawmakers, worked the phones and cheered the members on during votes on social media.

It’s a major victory for Trump and Republican leadership in Congress, which captured a trifecta during the 2024 elections and has used that political muscle to force what they've dubbed their "One Big, Beautiful Bill" through both chambers at a rapid-fire pace, despite deep reservations within their own party and unanimous opposition from Democrats who see it as a ticket to winning back congressional majorities in 2026.

[...] [The bill] is estimated to increase deficits by around $3.4 trillion over the next ten years. It would make 2017 income tax cuts permanent; create new, narrow tax breaks for tips and overtime; implement new benefits for businesses; and roll back clean energy tax credits created under former President Joe Biden.

[...] The bill would make deep cuts to Medicaid, leaving nearly 12 million Americans uninsured, and knocking 2 million people off the food program called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Republicans defended the bill's massive Medicaid cuts by saying their goal is to force male NEET video gamers to get back to work to pay for single mothers' welfare.



A report from the Milbank Memorial Fund in April found that those most likely to lose their Medicaid from this bill are poor middle-aged women who live with their elderly parents.

"Medicaid enrollees classified as able-bodied represent only 15.8% of the total nonworking Medicaid population ages 18-64 (and only 8% of the total Medicaid population). In other words, nonworking able-bodied enrollees are a very small part of all nonworking enrollees; the great majority of nonworking enrollees have serious health problems, care for minor children, or have a condition severe enough to qualify for disability benefits," the Milbank Memorial Fund noted.

"Within this small slice of nonworking adults who can be considered able-bodied, four in five (79.2%) are women, with an average age of 41. One in four (26%) is over age 50. Their median income is zero. They live in families with annual incomes averaging under $45,000 and an average household size of 4.4. In other words, they are exceptionally poor women on the older end of the working-age spectrum, who have no income of their own and live in poor families."

Young adult males are also statistically the group least likely to actually need medical care.

The bill does include a measure to increase ICE's budget to a massive $37.5 billion but it's highly questionable how committed Trump actually is to enacting "mass deportations" considering he has been pushing an amnesty program for migrant farm and hotel workers.


Though Trump ordered ICE to back off deporting illegal migrants in his favored industries, he has unleashed them to round up critics of Israel for deportation to cheers from the Anti-Defamation League.

The Trump administration is also now aggressively moving to denaturalize US citizens for "antisemitism."

A newly issued DOJ memo calling to prioritize denaturalization "gives the Trump administration another tool to police immigrants' free speech rights," Axios reported on Wednesday.

"The Trump administration has targeted students, universities and immigrants for alleged antisemitism. Frequently, those targeted have been critical of Israel's war in Gaza," Axios noted. "The DOJ's memo cites 'ending antisemitism' as another priority target."

It's expected that President Trump will sign the "Big Beautiful Bill" into law on July 4th.

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