Trump Open to Delay of July 4 Deadline for ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on July 1 said that he would accept the “One Big Beautiful Act” after the July 4 deadline he set for the bill’s passage. Just after noon on July 1, the U.S. Senate passed the bill after spending nearly 24 hours in continuous session voting on dozens of amendments and points of order against the bill. Several Republicans had dissented, including Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). Republicans in both houses of Congress have been racing to meet the July 4 deadline that Trump requested on June 27. Now that the Senate has approved its version, both houses need to reconcile their differences and produce a compromise text that they must pass, again, word for word....