U.S. President Donald Trump signed his bundle of tax breaks and spending cuts into regulation Friday (July 5, 2025) after his cajoling produced nearly unanimous Republican help in Congress for the home precedence that might cement his second-term legacy.
Flanked by Republican legislators and members of his Cabinet, Mr. Trump signed the multitrillion-dollar laws outdoors the White House, after which banged down the gavel that House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted him that was used in the course of the invoice’s ultimate passage Thursday.
Against odds that at occasions appeared inconceivable, Mr. Trump achieved his objective of celebrating a historic — and divisive — legislative victory in time for the nation’s birthday.
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Fighter jets and a stealth bomber streaked via the sky over the annual White House Fourth of July picnic as Mr. Trump and first girl Melania Trump stepped out onto the White House balcony.
“America’s winning, winning, winning like never before,” Mr. Trump mentioned, noting final month’s bombing marketing campaign in opposition to Iran’s nuclear program, which he mentioned the flyover was meant to honour. “Promises made, promises kept and we’ve kept them.” The White House was hung with pink, white and blue bunting for the common Fourth of July festivities. The United States Marine Band performed patriotic marches — and, in a typical Trumpian contact, tunes by Eighties pop icons Chaka Khan and Huey Lewis. The two separate flyovers bookended Trump’s look and the band enjoying the nationwide anthem.
Democrats assailed the bundle as a giveaway to the wealthy that can rob hundreds of thousands extra lower-income individuals of their medical insurance, meals help and monetary stability.
“I never thought that I’d be on the House floor saying that this is a crime scene,” Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said during a record-breaking speech that delayed the bill’s passage by eight-plus hours. “It’s a crime scene, going after the health, and the safety, and the well-being of the American people.”
The legislation extends Trump’s 2017 multitrillion-dollar tax cuts and cuts Medicaid and food stamps by USD 1.2 trillion. It provides for a massive increase in immigration enforcement. Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper projects that nearly 12 million more people will lose health insurance under the law.
The legislation passed the House on a largely party-line vote Thursday, culminating a monthslong push by the GOP to cram most of its legislative priorities into a single budget bill that could be enacted without Senate Democrats being able to block it indefinitely by filibustering.
It passed by a single vote in the Senate, where North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis announced he would not run for reelection after incurring Trump’s wrath in opposing it. Vice President JD Vance had to cast the tie-breaking vote.
In the House, where two Republicans voted against it, one, conservative maverick Tom Massie of Kentucky, has also become a target of Trump’s well-funded political operation.
The legislation amounts to a repudiation of the agendas of the past two Democratic presidents, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, in rolling back Obama’s Medicaid expansion under his signature health law and Biden’s tax credits for renewable energy.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the package will add USD 3.3 trillion to the deficit over the decade and 11.8 million more people will go without health coverage.
Mr. Trump exulted in his political victory Thursday night in Iowa, where he attended a kickoff of events celebrating the country’s 250th birthday next year.
“I want to thank Republican congressmen and women, because what they did is incredible,” he said. The president complained that Democrats voted against the bill because “they hate Trump — but I hate them, too.”
The package is certain to be a flashpoint in next year’s midterm elections, and Democrats are making ambitious plans for rallies, voter registration drives, attack ads, bus tours and even a multiday vigil, all intended to highlight the most controversial elements.
Upon his return to Washington early Friday, Trump described the package as “very popular,” though polling suggests that public opinion is mixed at best.
For example, a Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that majorities of US adults support increasing the annual child tax credit and eliminating taxes on earnings from tips, and about half support work requirements for some adults who receive Medicaid.
But the poll found majorities oppose reducing federal funding for food assistance to low-income families and spending about USD 45 billion to build and maintain migrant detention centres. About 60 per cent said it was “unacceptable” that the bill is expected to increase the USD 36 trillion US debt by more than USD 3 trillion over the next decade.
