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BREAKING: U.S. House passes the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act; sending it to Trump's desk House narrowly passes Trump’s megabill in major victory for Republicans The House on Thursday passed President Donald Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill, delivering him a major political victory and teeing him up to enshrine much of his sweeping domestic agenda into law. The final vote was 218-214, with two Republicans — Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick — voting against it alongside all of the chamber’s Democrats. The legislation, which Trump has dubbed the “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” contains trillions of dollars in tax cuts and beefed-up immigration enforcement spending and is offset by significant cuts to Medicaid and other programs. Republicans expressed confidence that the bill would pass, despite opposition in prior rounds of voting by a handful of GOP holdouts who warn that the package will exacerbate U.S. deficits. Five of those Republicans initially voted no on a key proce