(3 Jul 2025)
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Washington – 3 July 2025
1. Mid of Republican leaders arriving at the ceremony, members, UPSOUND (English) "USA"
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
"Many of you have asked me this question in the halls over the last couple of days, but when it looked like that we might actually deliver this thing, particularly this morning, how did you know? I mean, what kept you going? Why did you think this was possible? You guys made an audacious plan. You brought the most comprehensive, complicated piece of legislation, probably arguably in the top two or three in the history of the Congress, with the smallest margin in U.S. history, which we had for a big chunk of the first hundred days. And you put this audacious timeline, you said you were going to pass it out of the house by Memorial Day. I mean, some of you openly laughed at me when I said that back in early February. And then we said we would get it done by July 4th. We beat Memorial Day by four days, and we got this one done a day early. I just want to point out, okay?"
++WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
"We had a vision for what we wanted to do as a group. We believed in the election cycle last fall that we were going to be given this great blessing of unified government, that we would have the White House and the Senate and the House aligned, an alignment, unified government. And we did not want to waste that opportunity because we understand the history that comes along with it, the opportunity that we can do for the country, and we believe that we would have that chance."
4. Mid to close of Johnson signing the bill, lawmakers shaking hands and applauding
5. Cutaway of the group chanting, UPSOUND (English) "fight"
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
"I believed in this vision, I believed in the group. I believe in America. We had a tough four years before this last election cycle. America was in, we were in deep trouble. And we knew that if we won, and we believed we would, we knew if we got unified government, we’d have to quite literally fix every area of public policy. Everything was an absolute disaster under the Biden-Harris radical, woke, progressive Democrat regime. And we took the best effort that we could in one big, beautiful bill to fix as much of it as we could and I am so grateful to God that we got that done as we did because of the dedication."
++EDIT ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Republicans in Congress have muscled President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill to passage.
At nearly 900 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.
The House approved the bill on Thursday, the final step necessary to get the bill to Trump’s desk by the GOP’s self-imposed deadline of July 4th.
The bill would make permanent many of the tax breaks passed in Trump’s first term while also adding new ones, such as new tax deductions for tips, overtime, seniors and interest payments on auto loans.
The atmosphere was joyous at a ceremony for the passage of Republicans’ signature tax and spending bill.
“I believe in America,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, becoming briefly emotional as his colleagues cheered for him just ahead of the bill signing. Johnson praised his Republican conference for “an audacious plan” that “did not waste the opportunity” of unified government.
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