US senators were inching Sunday towards a vote on Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” spending bill, a hugely divisive proposal that would deliver key parts of the US president’s domestic agenda while making massive cuts to social welfare programs.
Trump is hoping the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will help seal his legacy, extending his expiring first-term tax cuts at a cost of $4.5 trillion and beefing up border security.
But Republicans eyeing 2026 midterm congressional elections are divided over the package, which would strip health care from millions of the poorest Americans and add more than $3 trillion to the country’s debt.
The Senate formally opened debate on the bill late Saturday, after Republican holdouts delayed what should have been a procedural vote.
Senators narrowly passed the motion to begin debate, with two Republicans joining 47 Democrats in voting against it — drawing sharp rebukes from Trump.
The US president has pushed his party to get the bill passed and on his desk for him to sign into law by July 4, the United States’ Independence Day.
On Sunday, however, he seemed to cast doubt on that timeline, and accused the opposition Democrats of delaying proceedings for political reasons.
“There are a lot of bad people in the Democrat Party,” he told Fox News in an interview aired Sunday, berating his political opponents for not backing an increase to the debt ceiling.
Earlier, Trump’s tone had been even sharper.বিস্তারিত