Trump to sign controversial spending bill during White House 4th of July celebrations

[ad_1] President Donald Trump is slated to make use of the White Home's Fourth of July celebrations because the backdrop for his closing victory lap over his large spending invoice.

The president will signal the laws, which is able to convey large cuts to authorities advantages corresponding to Medicaid and enhance funding for immigration enforcement, in the course of the White Home's navy household picnic on Friday night.

It's unclear what visitors will attend the signing occasion or if the picnic's fireworks will happen throughout that point.

On this June 19, 2025, file photograph,, a U.S. flag flys on the prime of a newly put in 100-foot-tall pole on the South Garden of the White Home in Washington, D.C.

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Trump pushed Congress to move the invoice by July 4th as some Republicans held out over a number of points, together with the invoice's impact on the debt ceiling.

"There might be no higher birthday current for America than the exceptional victory we achieved simply hours in the past when Congress handed the 'One Huge, Stunning Invoice' to Make America Nice Once more," Trump mentioned in Iowa on Thursday, after the Home handed the invoice.

The White Home celebrations for the Fourth of July will embody a number of flyovers, together with one that includes B-2 bombers. The president mentioned Thursday that the flyover will happen on the identical time he indicators the invoice; nonetheless, the White Home has not confirmed the timing of that occasion.

Democrats criticized the president and the invoice's supporters over its cuts to companies that assist the poorest Individuals. The invoice institutes work necessities for Medicaid that some consultants say will make tens of millions of Individuals uninsured, and makes cuts to this system that can end in closures of well being facilities in rural areas, in response to well being care employers.

President Donald Trump arrives for a rally to kick off the July Fourth vacation weekend on the Iowa State Fairgrounds on July 3, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa.

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On Thursday, Home Democratic chief Hakeem Jeffries broke the chamber's document with an eight-hour, 44-minute speech decrying the invoice.

"We needed to make it possible for the American individuals had a chance to completely and extra utterly understands, within the gentle of day, simply how damaging this one huge, ugly invoice shall be to the American individuals," he mentioned.