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One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Jodey Arrington(R-TX)Cosponsors · D 0 · R 18 · I 0
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Last action
Became Public Law No: 119-21.
Action date
2025-07-04

What it does

Budget reconciliation package pairing a debt-limit increase with partisan tax, spending, and policy riders advanced under majority-only procedures.

Why it matters

Reconciliation lets one chamber majority rewrite large slices of fiscal policy without a 60-vote Senate cloture threshold — so the bill becomes the vehicle for policy that could not survive regular order.

Progressive take

Receipts: Public Law 119-21 is the majority's signature fiscal rewrite. Watch the tax distribution tables, Medicaid/SNAP riders, and debt-limit timing — not the branding. Reconciliation is a process cheat code, not a mandate for every rider stuffed inside.

Roll-call receipts

House · On Passage

2025-05-22 · Yea 215 · Nay 217 · NV 1

Yea by party215
Nay by party217
DemGOPInd

Senate · On Passage of the Bill

2025-07-01 · Yea 51 · Nay 49

Yea by party51
Nay by party49
DemGOPInd

Topics

BudgetTaxesDemocracyEconomy

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