(3 Jul 2025)
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++BEGINS AND ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
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Washington – 3 July 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Chip Roy (R) Texas:
“At each stage you take the win. Here at the end, the question was what did the Senate do. I would have liked to have gotten more. Let’s be clear. But it’s a good bill overall in terms of what it does in tax policy, spending, historic mandatory reductions, and importantly, the Green New Scam subsidy repeals, that I think now the executive branch can make sure happen.”
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Don Beyer (D) Virginia:
“I’m certainly very disappointed, and I’m exhausted. I’m not as exhausted as Hakeem Jeffries. But I think every one of us did all that we know how to do to stop this in the legislative process. They have a majority. They won. They had the power and the presence of the power of the president to twist their arms, the threats of primaries, the threats of denying benefits in their district.”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R) Wisconsin:
“Everything is going to be ok. I can’t stress enough how incredibly thankful I am, we got this done because it’s truly it’s going to be a game changer.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D) New York:
“I think this is one of the saddest days. In modern American history, this is the largest, this is the largest withdrawal and ending of health care in American history. 17 million people in our country, 17 million Americans in our country are going to lose their Medicaid.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Andy Harris (R) Maryland:
“They know the reputation of the Freedom Caucus. We’ve been fighting for fiscal restraint for ten years now. And we we’re not going to move off that dime. I was going to vote no without these agreements we came to last night. I was a hard no on this bill. These agreements are significant. They will and it will become obvious over the next few months what exactly how we’ve got the administration to move in a direction that mitigates a lot of the issues with the Senate.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D) Mississippi:
“So, once you get into it, obviously it’s a big bill. And you got to highlight certain things. But when people start getting kicked out of nursing homes and things like that, that’s when you’re going to feel it.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump’s big trillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage Thursday in Congress, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a Fourth of July deadline.
The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democrats opposed.
GOP leaders worked overnight and the president himself leaned on a handful of skeptics to drop their opposition and send the bill to him to sign into law.
Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York delayed voting for more than more than eight hours by seizing control of the floor with a record-breaking speech against the bill.
Rep. Thomas Massie, one of two Republicans who voted against the bill, explained his decision in one sentence. “Well, it looks like the big bill is going to pass but it wasn’t beautiful enough for me to vote for it,” Massey told reporters as he left the Capitol on Thursday.
The Kentucky Republican has been a fierce critic of the bill from the right, complaining it doesn’t rein in the budget deficit. Trump and his allies are mobilizing to challenge him in next year’s primary.
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