US Senate passes Trump's 'big beautiful' tax and cuts bill after turbulent all-nighter

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US Senate passes Trump's 'big beautiful' tax and cuts bill after turbulent all-nighter  The package now goes back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson had warned senators not to overhaul what his chamber had already approved.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/01/us-senate-passes-trumps-big-beautiful-tax-and-cuts-bill-after-turbulent-all-nighter  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Senate Republicans passed U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial Big Beautiful bill on

00:07Tuesday. The tax breaks and spending cuts bill powered its way past a fierce opposition from

00:12the Democrats and within the Republican ranks. The bill passed on a tie-break vote cast by Vice

00:18President J.D. Vance after the upper chamber of U.S. Congress was stuck at a 50-50 deadlock.

00:23On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. The Senate being evenly divided,

00:30the Vice President votes in the affirmative. The bill as amended is passed.

00:35The majority of disagreements were over Trump's proposed cuts to Medicaid.

00:40The U.S. President wants to cut around $1.2 trillion, largely to Medicaid and food stamps,

00:46which Democrats and a number of Republican lawmakers found alarming.

00:49Senate Democrats say the proposed cuts put millions at risk of losing health care at the

00:54expense of pleasing billionaires. Because of this bill, tens of millions will lose health insurance.

01:01Millions of jobs will disappear. People will get sick and die. Kids will go hungry and the debt

01:10will explode to levels we have never seen. All so that the billionaires and corporate special

01:16interests get a permanent tax break. This bill is so irredeemable that one Republican literally

01:25chose to retire rather than vote yes and decimate his own state. The bill also includes roughly $4.5

01:33trillion in tax cuts, making permanent Trump's 2017 rates in addition to those he campaigned on,

01:39like no taxes on tips and overtime work. Independent financial analysts and accounting firms say the tax

01:46is structured in a way to predominantly benefit the rich. More than a third of the cuts would benefit

01:52households generating an income of approximately half a million dollars annually. The package now

01:57returns to the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, where Speaker Mike Johnson will

02:02race to obtain final approvals to send the bill back to Trump before his July 4th deadline.

02:07Mr. 15.

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