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July 7, 2025

Andrew Campbell 

The United States House of Representatives is working through the night to pass President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill in a final vote. Meanwhile, President Trump and his allies are attempting to exert pressure on holdouts inside his own Republican Party.

The top House Republican met with roughly a dozen hesitant lawmakers behind closed doors on July 2. Some centrist Republicans voiced concerns about drastic changes to Medicaid and food stamps that would hurt their voters. Meanwhile, fiscal conservatives cautioned that the Senate's version of the comprehensive tax and spending bill would increase the national debt too much.

Efforts to win over dissenting House Republicans continue into the early hours as Trump's tax and spending bill faces obstacles. Many of his members traveled to the White House to express their concerns directly to Trump about the updated Big Beautiful Bill.

In the early hours of July 3, the bill cleared its final procedural barrier, and now the House is debating it. In a few hours, the final vote is anticipated.