House Republicans propelled President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage Thursday, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a Fourth of July deadline. The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democrats opposed. GOP leaders worked overnight and the president himself leaned on a handful of skeptics to drop their opposition and send the bill to him to sign into law. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York delayed voting by holding the floor for more than eight hours with a record-breaking speech against the bill. “We have a big job to finish,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

House Republicans successfully pushed through President Donald Trump’s sweeping $4.5 trillion legislative package on Thursday, securing final approval for a sprawling combination of tax reductions and spending cuts just in time for the July 4 deadline the president had set for himself.
The vote, which narrowly passed by a margin of 218-214, saw two Republican lawmakers break ranks to side with the unified Democratic opposition. Overnight negotiations and last-minute calls from President Trump himself persuaded several hesitant GOP members to shift their stance and clear the way for the legislation to reach his desk.

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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries took to the House floor Thursday and held it for an extraordinary eight and a half hours, delivering the longest speech in the chamber’s history in an attempt to delay Republican efforts to pass a sweeping domestic policy package.
The speech, delivered under the House rule granting party leaders virtually unlimited speaking time — known informally as the “magic minute” — surpassed the previous record set by Republican Kevin McCarthy in 2021. That, in turn, had broken the earlier record held by Democrat Nancy Pelosi in 2018. Each of them was the minority leader when they spoke.

WATCH: The moment Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) set the record for longest floor speech in the U.S. House of Representatives.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries D-NY, concludes his record-setting floor speech (8 hrs. 44 min.)