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The Republican majority-held United States Senate voted on and pushed through US President Donald Trump’s much touted tax-cuts and spending proposal, dubbed as the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Act today (late Saturday local time), according to reports.
The US Senate voted 51-49 to pass the first Senate hurdle, and Donald Trump took to social media to celebrate, calling it a “great victory” and crediting Republican lawmakers Rick Scott, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, and Cynthia Lummis for “fantastic work”.
- Meanwhile, Elon Musk has renewed his criticism of Donald Trump’s tax plan in a scathing post on social media platform X. He called the bill “utterly insane and destructive.” He wrote: “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!”
- Democrats will focus their firepower with amendments aimed at reversing Republican spending cuts to programs that provide government-backed healthcare to the elderly, poor and disabled, as well as food aid to low-income families.
(With inputs from AP and Reuters)