GOP strategist: Senate will pass Trump’s bill

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00:00Moving on to tax and what Trump has called his big, beautiful bill.

00:04The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a wide-ranging tax bill backed by President Trump.

00:10It still needs the Senate approval. What's your reaction?

00:15Well, this is, I think, kudos to the speaker, Speaker Mike Johnson,

00:20for really being able to push through a very challenging tax bill

00:24that, you know, the majority is so slim of Republicans, it passed by one vote.

00:32This is, like, miraculous-type work that the Speaker of the House was able to pull off.

00:38But, you know, we were butting up against a Memorial Day recess.

00:42That's always an incentive for people to want to get out of town.

00:46So I think these members of Congress held out as long as they could.

00:50The uber-conservatives held out as long as they could.

00:52But President Trump came in and he lobbied.

00:56And that lobbying effort really paid off.

00:59And so here we are with a bill that has passed in the House.

01:03It goes to the Senate now.

01:05And I don't think anyone doubts that the Senate will pass it,

01:08likely before the August recess, the next big recess that will be five weeks long.