How business lobbyists scored wins in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” includes major wins for business interests that carried out aggressive lobbying campaigns on Capitol Hill.

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which he signed into law this month, includes major wins for business interests that carried out aggressive lobbying campaigns on Capitol Hill to secure favorable treatment for their industries. The roughly 900-page law is the centerpiece of Trump’s second-term domestic agenda, with tax cuts for high-income earners, plus about $170 billion in new funds for immigration enforcement and mass deportations, while cutting other spending, including on Medicaid. An array of special interests raced to shape the legislation — carving out tax breaks for private jets, excluding potentially life-saving drugs from negotiations that would lower costs, and giving two of the world’s richest men a tax windfall for their space companies. But not everyone got what they wanted. Some provisions were thwarted by public outrage, or by the byzantine budget rules that dictated how the Republicans who narrowly control Congress could move the measure through both chambers without Democratic support. Still, the lobbying isn’t over. Groups whose top priorities were left behind, like health care and tax prep companies, are vowing to make another run at Congress in the months ahead. Here’s a breakdown of key provisions that were tucked into the massive law, how lobbyists successfully pushed for their inclusion, and how some interest groups still fell short.