内容摘要：A mountaineer takes part in a training session at Khumbu Icefall before beginning his ascent to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Pasang Rinzee Sherpa)

A mountaineer takes part in a training session at Khumbu Icefall before beginning his ascent to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Pasang Rinzee Sherpa)

for a time, giving Republicans on Capitol Hill mixed signals over the best approach. But his original preference for one bill won out in the end, in part because House Republicans insisted their chamber could not do it any other way.Democrats uniformly oppose the package but have little power to stop it from becoming law if Republicans remain unified. As they continue to grapple with the party’s losses in last year’s election, Democrats have worked to mobilize public opposition to the bill, decrying it as a giveaway to the rich paid for with cuts to healthcare and other social services.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., called it “one big, beautiful betrayal.”Republicans, meanwhile, are eager to press ahead and get the tax package to the Senate, with hopes of getting it on Trump’s desk by the Fourth of July.Burchett said that while “everybody rises up in righteous indignation” over the details, Republicans will start “coming to the table” once Trump is fully engaged.

“It’s like an NBA basketball game right now,” Burchett said. “Don’t watch the game. Just wait till the last two minutes and then turn on the TV.”Associated Press writer Kevin Freking contributed.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the“We are helping people,” he said. For an able-bodied man to work, “it’s good for his own personal dignity. It’s good for his purpose. It’s a win-win-win.”

The debates in Congress come during a time of great soul-searching in the United States and the world. People are divided as ever, politically and economically, yet also yearning for a sense of community and togetherness that seems to be slipping further out of reach.House Democrats, who have fought Johnson and his party every step of the way in opposing what they call the “big, ugly bill,” were not about to cede any moral ground to Republicans or to Trump.

“This is the United States of America — the wealthiest country in the history of the world. It is indecent to rip food out of the mouths of children and everyday Americans,”said during his own lengthy floor speech ahead of the vote.