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BREAKING: The Big, Beautiful Bill Passes The House, Heads To Trump For Signature! (Two Republicans Vote No)
Let the Golden Age begin!
After what seems like weeks of endless fighting and ping-ponging back and forth between the House and Senate, the Big, Beautiful Bill is finally a done deal, finally passing the House today:
The One Big Beautiful Bill has passed.
One insider told me: “This makes the border court proof. We have a standing army.”
Congratulations, Republicans!! On top of tax cuts, dergulation, and unleashing American energy, you just restored American sovereignty.
Let’s go!!
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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 3, 2025
At the time Charlie Kirk posted that, Republicans had 217 votes which was what they needed to get for passage, but the finally tally eventually landed at 218:
President Trump had already scheduled a special signing ceremony for July 4th (Independence Day) so he was quite confident this would eventually pass.
BREAKING – IT’S OFFICIAL: The Big Beautiful Bill has PASSED the House of Representatives
It now heads to President Trump’s desk for tomorrow’s July 4th signing ceremony
CONGRATULATIONS, 47! pic.twitter.com/45gl5JYavP
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 3, 2025
President Trump wins again!
Only two Republicans voted “no” and Thomas Massie was one of them:
BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie votes ‘NO’ on President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill.’
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) July 3, 2025
CBS News confirms the two “no” votes were Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania:
The House on Thursday passed the signature piece of legislation of President Trump’s second term, approving a massive bill that includes trillions of dollars in tax and spending cuts while ramping up funding for defense and the administration’s immigration agenda.
The lower chamber voted 218 to 214 to approve the measure, with two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania — joining all Democrats in opposing the bill. The Senate passed the legislation, dubbed the “big, beautiful bill,” earlier this week. The House vote tees up President Trump to sign the bill as early as Friday, coinciding with the July 4 holiday.
The vote came after a marathon overnight session that saw GOP leaders overcome internal opposition to advance the bill, paving the way for final passage. Republican members who balked at many of the changes the Senate made to the legislation eventually relented and voted to pass it.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries tried to delay the inevitable by speaking on the floor for 8 hours and 44 minutes, setting the record for the longest House speech in U.S. history. He called out Republicans for the bill’s deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs, highlighting the Americans who he said would suffer because of the bill.
Before the vote, Speaker Mike Johnson said the bill will “make this country stronger, safer and more prosperous than ever before, and every American is going to benefit from that.”
“We’ve had spirited debate, we’ve had months of deliberation, and now we are finally ready to fulfill our promise to the American people,” Johnson said. “That’s what we are doing today.”
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits over the next 10 years and leave millions without health insurance, due to the cuts to Medicaid and programs under the Affordable Care Act. It would also dramatically increase funding for immigration enforcement, a key priority for Republicans and the president.
GOP opposition melts away
The final vote came after House GOP leadership scrambled Wednesday and into the wee hours Thursday to shore up support for the measure ahead of a key procedural vote.
Although Johnson spent weeks pleading with his Senate counterparts not to make any major changes to the version of the bill that passed the lower chamber by a single vote in May, the Senate made a number of tweaks that irked House members on a number of fronts — from its cuts to Medicaid to its impact on the deficit. Johnson acknowledged that the Senate bill’s changes “went a little further than many of us would’ve preferred,” though he repeatedly urged that the final product was largely what the House had signed off on in May.
The Senate-passed bill includes steeper Medicaid cuts, a higher increase in the debt limit and changes to the House bill’s green energy policies and the state and local tax deduction. Other controversial provisions that faced pushback in both chambers, including the sale of public lands in nearly a dozen states, a 10-year moratorium on states regulating artificial intelligence and an excise tax on the renewable energy industry, were stripped from the Senate bill before heading back to the House.
Potential holdouts, including moderates and members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, met with Mr. Trump on Wednesday as the White House pressured House Republicans to vote for the bill.
The vote on the key procedural hurdle began around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and didn’t wrap up until about 3:20 a.m. Thursday. Five House Republicans initially voted no on the vote setting the rules for debate on the measure, which would have been enough to tank the vote. But the vote remained open as GOP leaders worked to shore up support, allowing lawmakers to change from no to yes.
Johnson told reporters that Mr. Trump was “directly engaged” with skeptical members to get them onboard.
“Members wanted to hear certain assurances from him about what’s ahead, what the future will entail, and what we’re going to do next, and all of that,” Johnson said. “And he was very, very helpful in that process.”
Meanwhile, Thomas Massie’s stock continues to fade quickly, and I expect he will be primaried in 2026.
Stop The Virtue Signaling, Thomas Massie Isn’t Some “Principled” Angel
Stop The Virtue Signaling, Thomas Massie Isn't Some "Principled" Angel
I'm growing very sick and tired of Thomas Massie and Rand Paul -- and those disgusting perms they both have on top of their head.
I think all those hours under the perm lamp might be affecting brain cells!
But what really chaps my hide is when they both hide behind the claim that they're just both so principled and virtuous...and that's why they have to vote against Trump and MAGA every single time.
Enough of that nonsense!
Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again once more right here -- I agree with Massie and Rand on almost all of the issues. In vacuum, they're right!
But we don't live in a perfect-world vacuum, we live in the real world where deals need to be made and progress has to be achieved, even if every last little detail isn't perfectly the way the ever-so "principled" Massie wants it to be!
So let's talk about Mr. "Principled" and perhaps someone can explain to me what happened to all those "Principles" when Thomas Massie voted with the Democrats and with Joe Biden to remove the debt ceiling and allow Joe to spend money like a drunken sailor right through January of 2025?
Thomas Massie is not principled.
He voted to raise the debt ceiling under Biden.
He violates Americans' First Amendment rights every time he blocks a US voter on social media (Public Forum doctrine, constituency doesn't matter).
He doesn't propose solutions, he only provides…
— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) July 2, 2025
Thomas Massie is not principled. He's just another virtue signaling Democrat.
— Randy the Savage (@reannadilley) July 2, 2025
Do you know what happened on May 30th, 2023?
THOMAS MASSIE delivered the DECIDING VOTE (7-6) to move the "Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023" out of the House Rules Committee to allow it to come to a full vote in the House.
The following day, the "Principled" Thomas Massie…
— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) July 2, 2025
It's 100% true by the way.
You can look it up for yourself, or you can allow me to do it for you.
From ChatGPT:
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
Date: May 31, 2023
What: A bipartisan debt-ceiling suspension (through Jan 2025), tied to modest spending cuts.
Massie’s Role: Voted yes in the House Rules Committee and again on the House floor—crucial votes that helped the bill pass 314–117. This was the only time Massie voted to raise the debt ceiling and joined Democrats to do itaxios.com+15linknky.com+15time.com+15semafor.com.
Context: Passed both chambers and was signed into law by President Biden .
Hey Thomas, where were all those principles in 2023?
What happened?
Why is it you can vote with AOC all the time and with the Democrats and Joe Biden to give Joe clear skies to spend as much money as he wants, but suddenly when Trump is in office trying to implement the agenda we voted for him to implement, now you suddenly have all these "principles"?
What's up with that Thomas?
WHAT A FREAKING JOKE!
This guy will go down in history as being on the wrong side of this issue (if he goes down in history at all).
The Big, Beautiful Bill EXPLAINED…and Why Thomas Massie Is Dead Wrong
The Big, Beautiful Bill EXPLAINED...and Why Thomas Massie Is Dead Wrong
I've heard from so many of you that you'd like (1) an update on how things are going with the Big, Beautiful Bill, and (2) you want me to explain to you what it is and what they controversy is about it.
And I'm here to help!
But I often find it's best to start with a story or a parable. I figure if Jesus taught in Parables, then it's surely good enough for me!
So I'll 100% explain why Trump is 100% right about the Big, Beautiful Bill but first let me start off by telling you a story about a friend of mine...
An old friend.
A past friend.
A "friend" who sadly dropped me like a hot potato a few years ago.
That was super disappointing, but c'est la vie...and that's not the point of this story anyway.
The point of this story is this person -- let's just call them "Miles" -- was brilliant. Still is probably, I assume they're not dead. I wouldn't know because they treated me like I had the plague and disappeared faster than Chris Christie heading into a Golden Corral, but I assume they're still alive.
Anyway, the point is Miles was brilliant. One of the smartest people I ever knew. Pretty much off the charts smart. Creative too. EQ. IQ. Everything.
And a hard worker. Would outwork and outmuscle anyone.
Also top tier character (other than the ditching me part, that was pretty crappy). Someone you would trust your kids with, that kind of a person.
But there was one thing about Miles that I never really noticed until now in hindsight looking back...
Miles was always pulling a rabbit out of his hat at the 11th hour.
Always solving some massive crisis and pulling out the win from the clutches of defeat right at the last moment. Literally often just minutes before total loss, Miles would pull out the win.
Life was always very "hard".
Each story would leave you breathless as he told it, all the twists and turns and then some last minute heroic act, usually involving staying up all night long, working all night or even many nights in a row, often even in adverse weather conditions usually involving sideways rain, mud, wind and all other forms of extreme weather.
You'd be exhausted by the end of the story when Miles somehow pulled out the win in the literal last possible moments...again and again. Over and over.
Heck, you could throw this man out to live with the raccoons and he'd somehow come back leading the pack.
And I used to think isn't it amazing that Miles can pull off all these incredible last minute victories over and over -- and on one level it sure was.
But as time has gone by, I started to realize that perhaps Miles was somehow putting himself in these situations far too often -- likely even subconsciously. It was like he attracted chaos and disorder so that he could then harness and defeat it. And sure enough it was magical each time when he did! We were all captivated listening to him recount his wild victories!
But was all of that really necessary?
Or was there a shorter, more direct, easier path to the same result?
The more I looked back I realized it was Law 10 of Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power on full display: LAW 10 - INFECTION: AVOID THE UNHAPPY AND UNLUCKY:
To be clear, Miles wasn't unhappy or unlucky, quite the contrary.
But it was the same principle at play.
He was somehow attracting all of these wildly chaotic situations and emerging as the hero at the 11:59pm hour each time.
Ok so....why do I tell you all of that?
Well one, it's a good story right?
But of course I also have a deeper purpose.
I tell you all of that because what I saw in Miles is exactly what I see in Thomas Massie.
Good guy.
Brilliant even!
Principled.
Strong.
Courageous.
In fact, I've written positively to praise Thomas Massie many times in the past because he does take principled, correct stands on almost all issues.
But also....impractical? An obstacle to real success? An obstacle to actually making any deal? An obstacle to progress and movement forward? Too smart for his own good?
Almost certainly yes to all.
In case you haven't been following close enough, I'm talking about Thomas Massie because a massive rift has formed between Massie and Trump and between supporters of each.
President Trump has been hitting massive very hard recently, posting "GET THIS BUM OUT OF OFFICE ASAP!"
And on the flip side, good people like Cassandra over at The Gateway Pundit and Dr. Mary Talley Bowden are loudly voicing their support for Massie:
All my homies support @RepThomasMassie pic.twitter.com/WQE8yJuBmG
— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) June 22, 2025
I hope @RepThomasMassie will run for @POTUS.
— Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MdBreathe) June 22, 2025
Here's where I come down on this debate, and why I told you the story about my old friend Miles...
Believe it or not, I believe you can sometimes actually be "too smart" and "too principled" for your own good.
That may sound crazy and even wrong, but allow me to explain.
Almost NO wildly successful entrepreneurs come from top of their class 4.0 GPA students. Did you know that?
Almost all hugely successful entrepreneurs are B or C students.
Why?
Because the ultra-smart are often so smart that they see 4-5 steps down the road and they usually only see what might happen if things go wrong.
THIS pitfall and THAT pitfall...
Problems abound!
Risks abound!
Things are not PERFECT!
Danger Will Robinson! HALT! Freeze! Do not advance!
And for these people, things need to be PERFECT. They need to be black or white, and just like they have controlled their whole lives in the classroom by studying and acing tests, they need to be able to control things in the real world or they won't do them.
The problem is, that's not how the real world works.
The real world is almost always shades of grey, never black and white.
And you don't get to control most of it either. You can only control how you respond. How you adapt. How you take the BEST course forward, even if it's not perfect.
You simply advance.
You move forward.
Not that I like him, but as Mark Zuckerberg famously once said, "move fast and break stuff". And then put it back together later after you've already won.
But the A-students can't do that.
It bothers them. Agitates them. So much so that they'd rather SIT OUT than take an "imperfect" path that they can't control.
That was Miles.
And that is also Thomas Massie.
Thomas Massie isn't wrong in 99% of the things he says and the principled positions he takes.
The only problem is, the world is moving on in the meantime.
The "perfect road" never arrives.
And Massie is going to be "right" all the way to total loss.
Take the Big, Beautiful Bill....Massie opposes it.
Why?
Because it has too much spending.
And you know what?
He's right! It does.
But Massie is not a deal-maker.
Massie allows "great" be the enemy of "good" and which means Massie never even arrives at "good".
Instead he gets nothing.
No progress.
No wins along the way.
Nothing.
Total loss.
But he was "right"....so that's worth it, right?
Not really.
President Trump is a dealmaker.
He knows how to pick up every win along the way that he possibly can, even if it's not 100% right, not 100% perfect. He's still going to grab as many wins as he can as he just keeps moving forward -- and then he's going to clean up the "not perfect" parts later as best he can.
That's the Big, Beautiful Bill in a nutshell.
In case you've been having trouble following it, allow me to explain it very simply to you...
It's called the Big, Beautiful Bill because they've jammed a lot in here.
Why do that?
Because there's a unique mechanism in Congress that I won't go into great detail on right here but basically by doing it this way, at this time, they are able to pass this with a simple 51-49 majority in the Senate instead of the typical 60-votes required for other Bills.
Basically the Senate Republicans have 53 votes right now, and a few RINOs in the mix, so they can only afford to lose 3 votes on the BBB and still allow it to pass. Meanwhile, going a different route would require 60 votes -- something they don't have.
It's all quite complex, but here's a very short summary:
How the Big Beautiful Bill Works
1. Uses Reconciliation Process:The bill is being passed through budget reconciliation, a special process that bypasses the filibuster and allows passage with just 51 votes instead of the usual 60.
2. Normally Needs 60 Votes in Senate:Without reconciliation, Democrats could filibuster the bill, forcing Republicans to get 60 votes—which would require at least 7 Democrats to cross over. Very unlikely.
3. Why Reconciliation Allows 51 Votes:Reconciliation is limited to budget-related items (taxes, spending, debt). It cannot be filibustered, so only a simple majority is needed.
4. Makes Tax Cuts Permanent Now:The bill makes the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent before they expire at the end of 2025. If it passes, the tax rates stay low without interruption.
5. Prevents a 2026 Tax Hike:If no action is taken, the Trump tax cuts automatically expire in 2026, resulting in a major tax hike on most Americans.
Why Doing This Later in a Standalone Bill Fails
6. No Reconciliation Later:Each Congress gets only one reconciliation bill per budget resolution. If Republicans miss this 2025 window, they may lose the chance to use reconciliation later.
7. Standalone Bill Would Need 60 Votes:In 2026, a regular bill to restore the tax cuts would require 60 votes, which is virtually impossible without major Democrat support.
8. Political Landscape Could Shift:After the 2026 midterms, Republicans might lose seats, making it even harder to pass a future tax bill—especially if they lose the Senate or White House.
9. Reinstating vs Extending:Once the cuts expire, reinstating them is legally and politically harder than simply extending them now. It would count as new legislation with higher scrutiny.
10. Big Beautiful Bill Bundles It All:The bill ties tax cuts, spending reforms, and border security into one package, making it easier to unify Republican support. A future tax-only bill would have less leverage and face more opposition.
President Trump knows all of this.
President Trump is a dealmaker.
Heck, Massie knows all of this too, but Massie would rather LOSE if it means taking a principled stand, and President Trump would rather plug his nose and move forward if it means getting the American people massive tax cuts.
That's the bottom line.
It's really just that simple.
You have to choose one or the other, and both men and clearly planted their stakes on what they value mosts.
President Trump will take the win right now, get Americans massive tax cuts, and then deal with all of this later in the year. Clean up the bad stuff later, after putting some big wins up on the scoreboard.
Massie would rather be "right" and in exchange for that great privilege of being principled impose on you a massive new tax hike.
No thanks.
You see, Republicans can still cut spending later in the year through the annual appropriations process or a new budget resolution.
But Thomas Massie is principled and stubborn to his own detriment.
More importantly, to YOUR detriment.
Thomas Massie is the living embodiment of "cut off your nose to spite your face".
What benefit is there to being "right" and "principled" if all you do is constantly lose?
Sorry folks, I don't want that.
I elected President Trump to be my fighter and this is EXACTLY why.
Thomas Massie would do well to study and learn from President Trump rather than constantly being a thorn in his side.
Thomas Massie needs to learn how to "win".
He has no idea how to win or how to make deals, he only knows how to be an obstructionist.
In short, he's "too smart" and "too principled" for his own good -- of for YOUR good.
I'll wrap this up by ending back with the analogy to entrepreneurs.
The A-students are often so smart and so "intellectual" that they can't ever explain something in simple terms.
They use big words, long sentences, and they lost 90% of the people halfway through whatever long diatribe they're on.
But the B and C students explain things simply -- they get right to the point. They usually also make an emotional connection in doing so. And they draw people in.
If you can't explain something short and simply, you don't actually understand it very well.
Thomas Massie can go on as many intellectual and principled rants as he wants, but at the end of the day he never scores any wins.
At the end of the day, he's just another Rand Paul.
They might be "right" on everything, but they also end up dead last and the history books will barely remember them.
I'm sad I had to write this article.
I'm sad my friend Miles ditched me like I can some form of viral cancer.
I'm sad I have to write this about Massie.
But....c'est la vie.
Now you know.
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