Trump shows his dominance over Congress in passing the ‘big, beautiful bill’

Another obstacle to the passage was the richest man in the world: Elon Musk. Once Trump’s efforts to reduce the government’s workforce, Musk left the White House and quickly denounced the bill. On Monday, he said that he would work on the legislators who campaigned to reduce debt and voted for the bill.

He wrote on his social media site, X, that “they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this earth”.

The final vote suggested that GOP legislators may be more afraid of Trump’s anger than Musk’s money – or that the new Musk party promised to start a day after the “crazy” bill was adopted.

The question of whether Trump and his party capitalize on legislative success may depend on what “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” does in the real world. It wouldn’t have succeeded but for Trump. The title of the bill is an ode to Trump’s marketing instincts; He has it now.

Will this release the economic growth that Trump predicts? Or will the steep cuts in the social security net alienate some of the same voters of the blue passes that Trump has torn from the democratic coalition? The mid-term elections next year will test if Trump’s Gambit has paid off.

Trump’s requests throughout the saga did not always correspond to reality. At a meeting on Wednesday with moderate republican legislators from the White House, Trump said to them: “Do not touch Medicaid.” Someone in the room replied that the bill in fact receives Medicaid, said GOP legislator to NBC News. To pay tax lounges, the invoice makes a major discounts of Medicaid, food aid programs and the financing of clean energies.

Whit Ayres, a GOP sounder, said that Republicans “should build a powerful case for that.”

“They will have to find a way to explain, if indeed the Medicaid cuts drop the people of Medicaid, why this bill did it when Donald Trump said he was not going to touch Medicaid,” he continued.

A republican senator, speaking on condition of anonymity before the bill, said: “Democrats beat us on messaging. It’s just as simple. [on the bill] Because we are too busy fighting between us. At one point, you must go and sell this.

Trump won his most consecutive legislative victory in one or the other term thanks to a mixture of intimidation and milk. He has repeatedly proven that he can go back a main challenge to republican legislators who defy his wishes. The latest example is Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C.

One day after Tillis put Trump for opposing the bill, the senator announced that he would not present himself to re -election.

But Trump, in tandem with vice-president JD Vance, also presided over a more traditional strategy for the members to coaxe voting yes. Trump has embarked on the effort, aid and legislators said.

Aids eliminated Trump’s public event calendar on Wednesday so that it can spend more time wrapping legislators. Thursday at 1 am, he was on a telephone call with a group of selected congress, trying to persuade them to come.

A person familiar with the telephone call said that Trump and other managers of the White House have undertaken to aggressively implement the main provisions in the bill, in particular the elimination of clean energy tax credits. The discussion also involved future actions aimed at carrying out conservative priorities. Representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Pointed out that it would be good if Trump ceased to attack him. (Massie and representative Brian Fitzpatrick, R-P-., Was the only two Republicans to vote against the bill on Thursday).

Vance was put into service last weekend, when concerns developed about the prospects of the bill in the Senate.

The vice-president, who had spent most of the week at his family home in family, returned from Ohio on Saturday to snuggle up with the Republican senators.

After arriving at the Capitol, Vance met key republicans like Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho, who chairs the finance committee. He also focused on GOP potentials, especially Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming and Rick Scott from Florida, according to two people familiar with his involvement.

Vance returned to the Capitol early Tuesday morning before the final vote, the Republican senators creating a rotating door between the Senate floor and the nearby vice-president ceremony office.

Vance also stayed in talks with the members of the House until Thursday’s vote.

“The member of the Congress of the Gop just sent me a text,” said the vice-president Thursday morning on X while the Democratic leader of the Hakeem Jeffries chamber of New York was expressed against the bill. “‘I was undecided on the bill, but I watched the performances of Hakeem Jeffries and now I am a firm yes.'”

By adopting a bill that summarizes a large part of his national program, Trump succeeded when other Republican presidents failed. George W. Bush won the re -election in 2004 and, armed with what he called the new “political capital”, tried powerfully so that the congress revised the social security system. The effort collapsed.

Trump will have at least a brief period to savor the realization before the bill takes effect and the voters see by themselves if there is a gap between what he has promised and what he delivers. He will do it in style from the White House, looking at a fireworks fire in the evening and an overview of the army’s most sophisticated plane.

“The golden age is there !!!” The main advisor of the White House, Stephen Miller, posted on X, referring to the inaugural speech of Trump.