Trump to sign

Washington — President Trump is bringing pomp and circumstance to his signing of the “huge, stunning invoice” on Friday, with a 4 p.m. Independence Day ceremony on the White Home. 

Some Republican members of Congress who voted to pass the laws are anticipated to attend, because the president places his signature on his sweeping home coverage invoice. The ultimate invoice hasn’t appeased all Republicans, however the president and Congress managed to go it forward of their self-imposed July 4 deadline. 

The president watched coverage of the invoice’s passage from the White Home on Thursday. Mr. Trump took a victory lap throughout a speech in Iowa Thursday night time, calling the primary 5 months of his second time period “a declaration of independence from a, actually, nationwide decline.” 

White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt referred to as the laws “an encapsulation of all the insurance policies that the president campaigned on and the American folks voted on,” and stated it is a “victorious day for the American folks.” 

Following days of handwringing and negotiations, and Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries breaking the report for the longest speech on the Home ground, the Home handed the laws Thursday afternoon in a 218-214 vote. Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Thomas Massie voted in opposition to the laws, and no Democrats voted for it. GOP management and the White Home spoke with Republican holdouts for hours to advance the invoice early Thursday morning. 

A senior Trump White Home official instructed reporters on a press name Thursday that the president was “deeply” concerned within the technique of the invoice, and thru “late-night telephone calls,” helped transfer the invoice ahead in Congress. Vice President Vance was additionally intently concerned, the official stated. 

What’s within the “huge, stunning invoice”?

• The present $2,000 little one tax credit score, which might return to a pre-2017 degree of $1,000 in 2026, will completely improve to $2,200. 

• The laws consists of harder restrictions on Medicaid, which supplies government-sponsored well being look after low-income and disabled People. The invoice imposes work necessities for some able-bodied adults and extra frequent eligibility checks. The Congressional Funds Workplace estimates that the invoice will lead to 11.8 million People dropping well being protection underneath Medicaid over the subsequent decade.

• The invoice would permit many tipped employees to deduct as much as $25,000 of their ideas and additional time from their taxes. That provision expires in 2028.

• The invoice would make modifications to the Supplemental Vitamin Help Program, or meals stamps, expanding work requirements and requiring state governments with greater fee error charges to cowl among the program’s prices.

• The laws additionally consists of greater than $46.5 billion for border wall building and associated bills, $45 billion to develop detention capability for immigrants in custody and about $30 billion in funding for hiring, coaching and different sources for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

• The package deal additionally consists of a rise to the cap on the state and native tax deduction, elevating it from $10,000 to $40,000. After 5 years, it could return to $10,000.

• The invoice would largely terminate quite a few tax incentives from the 2022 Inflation Discount Act for clear power, electrical autos and power effectivity packages that benefited customers. 

• The laws would elevate the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, going past the $4 trillion outlined within the preliminary Home-passed invoice. Congress faces a deadline to deal with the debt restrict later this summer time. 

How one can watch President Trump’s “huge, stunning invoice” signing

• What: President Trump holds an occasion to signal his “one huge, stunning invoice”
• Date: Friday, July 4, 2025
• Time: 4 p.m. ET
• Location: White Home
• On-line stream: Reside on CBS News within the participant above and in your cellular or streaming gadget.