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The United States House of Representatives approved Thursday the controversial tax and spending cut package pushed by President Donald Trump, who proudly called it the 'One Big Beautiful Bill'. teleSUR

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00:00The U.S. House of Representatives approved Thursday the controversial tax and spending

00:05card package pushed by President Donald Trump, who proudly called it the One Big Beautiful

00:09Bill.

00:10With 218 votes in favor and 214 against, the Republicans managed to overcome the Democratic

00:17opposition.

00:18The White House already celebrated the result, calling it a victory.

00:22It was then announced that the President will sign the new law on Friday, the day the U.S.

00:26commemorates its independence at 5 p.m. local time.

00:31With this package, the President seeks to implement a series of domestic reforms related

00:35to taxes, cuts and state spending aimed at priority sectors such as health, immigration, defence,

00:43industry, environment and energy.

00:51The One Big Beautiful Bill contemplates tax cuts in the order of billions of dollars that

00:57will be offset by cuts to social programs in health and nutrition.

01:01It also includes increased public spending on defence, border security, anti-immigration

01:06policies and energy.

01:08The One Big Beautiful Bill would cut food aid to nearly 5 million people.

01:13It would also cut nursing home care for seniors.

01:16Moreover, it would increase the national debt by US$3.25 trillion and cut taxes on billionaires

01:24by US$1.3 trillion.

01:27It would make it even easier to buy silencers and firearms.

01:32Likewise, it would massively increase funding for immigration detention US$75 billion for ice

01:40and border patrol rates and gathers US$45 billion to incarcerate immigrants, including children,

01:47plus US$69 billion to continue construction of the border wall.

01:58Earlier today, the Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Hakem Jeffries, opposed

02:03to the Big Beautiful Bill proposed by the US President Donald Trump.

02:08Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to Donald Trump's one big, ugly bill.

02:16This disgusting abomination, the GOP tax scam that guts Medicaid, rips food from the mouths

02:26of children, seniors and veterans, and rewards billionaires with massive tax breaks.

02:35Every single Democrat stands in strong opposition to this bill because we're standing up for the

02:42American people.

U.S. | House of Representatives passes Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill"

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