The bill cleared a key hurdle early this morning after the president and House Speaker Mike Johnson persuaded a group of Republican holdouts to change their votes.

President Trump is scheduled to sign the bill into law at 4 p.m. on July 4 at the White House, locking in tax reductions and Medicaid cuts.

It was a long-shot effort to compile a lengthy list of GOP priorities into what they called his “one big beautiful bill,” at nearly 900 pages.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lambasted Paramount Global’s decision on Wednesday to settle with President Donald Trump for $16 million over editing choices in CBS News’s 60 Minutes election special that made former Vice President Kamala Harris look more favorable.

Disgraced ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather condemned the $16 million settlement between his former outlet’s parent company and President Donald Trump on Wednesday. In an interview with Variety, the former anchor said that Paramount paying Trump $16 million was the media company groveling to the president.

Dan Rather, who worked at CBS News for 44 years before his 2006 departure, is speaking out against the settlement his former network's parent company reached with President Donald Trump. Trump had sued Paramount over the way CBS News edited a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.