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Last Updated: July 6, 2025, 11:42 PM EDT

After days of Republican drama, the House on Thursday passed President Donald Trump's sweeping tax cut and spending bill.

Trump helped Speaker Mike Johnson pressure GOP holdouts into flipping their no votes to allow the measure to go forward in time to meet the president's self-imposed July Fourth deadline.

Jul 01, 2025, 12:47 PM EDT

Trump tells ABC he believes bill will 'go very nicely' in House

ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce pressed President Trump on House Republicans who say they are unhappy with the changes the Senate made to the bill.

"What is your message to those holdouts?" Bruce asked the president.

"Well, I just heard that about the Senate, and the bill just passed, and it tells you there's something for everyone," Trump said. "I mean, we have -- it's a great bill. There is something for everyone, and I think it's going to go very nicely in the House. Actually, I think it will be easier in the House than it was in the Senate."

President President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion as he visits a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Fla., July 1, 2025.
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ABC's Bruce also followed up with asking Trump about the cuts to Medicaid that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects would cause 11.8 million Americans to lose their insurance.

Trump said he believed the amount of people who would lose coverage would be less than projected, but did not say where he was getting such data or analysis from.

"I'm saying it's going to be a very much smaller number than that and that number will be waste, fraud and abuse," he said.

Jul 01, 2025, 12:33 PM EDT

'Wow': Trump reacts in real time to Senate passing his legislation

President Trump learned about the Senate passage of his domestic policy bill during a roundtable event as he toured the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center in Florida.

"I was also wondering how we doing, because I know this is prime time, it shows that I care about you, because I'm here and I probably should be there, but we do care," Trump said.

Trump said that he will be going back to Washington to celebrate.

President Donald Trump visits a temporary migrant detention center informally known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in Ochopee, Florida, U.S., July 1, 2025.
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"We're gonna finish over here, and then we'll go over there. We'll go back and celebrate the big, beautiful bill," Trump said. Though notably, Democrats had the title "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" stricken just before the final vote.

"You sure that's right?" Trump asked the reporter when informed of the results.

"Wow," was Trump's response when he was told the information was correct.

Jul 01, 2025, 12:27 PM EDT

GOP's Susan Collins cites Medicaid cuts as reason she voted no

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who quickly left after casting her vote on Tuesday, pinned her opposition to the bill on the "harmful impact it will have on Medicaid."

"I strongly support extending the tax relief for families and small businesses. My vote against this bill stems primarily from the harmful impact it will have on Medicaid, affecting low-income families and rural health care providers like our hospitals and nursing homes," the Republican wrote in a statement.

Collins said 400,000 of her constituents -- nearly a third of the state's population -- depend on Medicaid.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Sen. Susan Collins walk to the Senate floor as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass President Donald Trump's sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 1, 2025.
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Jul 01, 2025, 12:14 PM EDT

These Senate Republicans voted 'no'

Three Senate Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the legislation: Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina.

Paul took issue with how much the bill is projected to add to the national debt. Meanwhile, Collins and Tillis had concerns about the impacts the measure would have on rural hospitals and Medicaid.

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