House Republicans pull an all-nighter to pass Trump’s bill of tax breaks and program cuts

Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Article by Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking and Leah Askarinam. PBS News – May 22, 2025.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval Thursday. With last-minute concessions and stark warnings from Trump, the Republican holdouts largely dropped their opposition to salvage the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that’s central to the GOP agenda. […]

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