US Senate begins debate on Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Forecaster says the bill would cut health cover for 11.8 million people and increase deficit by $3.3 trillion.
The United States Senate has begun debating President Donald Trump’s 940-page “Big, Beautiful Bill” of tax breaks and sweeping cuts to healthcare and food programmes.
The all-night session on Sunday came as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said the bill would add an estimated $3.3 trillion to the US debt over a decade.
It also said that 11.8 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 if the bill became law.
Republican leaders, who reject the CBO’s estimates on the cost of the legislation, are rushing to meet Trump’s deadline of July 4, the country’s Independence Day. But they barely secured enough support to muscle the bill past a procedural vote on Saturday night. A handful of Republican holdouts revolted, and it took phone calls from Trump and a visit from Vice President JD Vance to keep the legislation on track.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who voted against the bill on Saturday, announced he would not seek re-election after Trump threatened to back a primary challenger in retribution for his “no” vote.
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