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Trump’s big tax bill has passed the House. Here’s what’s inside it

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
Updated 6:07 AM CDT, May 22, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans early Thursday took a major step forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda, approving a legislative package that combines tax breaks, spending cuts, border security funding and other priorities.

House committees labored for months on the bill, which underwent late changes to win over holdouts in the Republican conference. It exceeds 1,000 pages and is titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a nod to Trump himself.

Republicans made one last round of revisions before the bill reached the House floor, boosting the state and local tax deduction to win over centrists and speeding up the work requirements in Medicaid to win over those who didn’t believe the bill did enough to curb spending.

Here’s a look at what’s in the legislative package, which is expected to undergo more changes when it goes to the Senate.

Tax cuts for individuals and businesses
Republicans look to make permanent the individual income and estate tax cuts passed in Trump’s first term, in 2017, plus enact promises he made on the 2024 campaign trail to not tax tips, overtime and interest on some auto loans.

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Trump threatens to hit Apple with a 25% tariff on iPhone sales

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President Trump is threatening to impose a 25% tariff on Apple if they do not shift some of their iPhone production to the U.S.

"I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone's that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else," he posted Friday on his Truth Social social media platform."If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S. Thank your for your attention to this matter!"

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'We did not sign up for this': Harvard's foreign students are stuck and scared

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Harvard has around 6,800 foreign students currently - a third are from China, and more than 700 are Indian.
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Amazon tribe sues New York Times over story it says led to porn addict claims

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The lawsuit claims a report portrayed the Marubo people as "unable to handle" basic internet exposure.
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New satellite photos show damaged North Korean warship

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Kim Jong Un has called the shipyard accident a "criminal act" and vowed to find those responsible.
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New satellite photos show damaged North Korean warship

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Kim Jong Un has called the shipyard accident a "criminal act" and vowed to find those responsible.
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Nigerian government sues senator over assassination claims

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Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan accused one of the country's top politicians of trying to kill her.
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Trump touts high military recruitment, but it was rising before his reelection

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Ahead of Memorial Day, President Trump has repeatedly taken credit for an upswing in military recruitment, claiming almost no one wanted to join the military before news of his reelection.

"After years of military recruiting shortfalls, enlistments in the U.S. armed forces are now the highest in 30 years because there is such an incredible spirit in the United States of America," the president said last week in Riyadh.

In reality, military records show enlistments began rebounding from a pandemic slump long before Election Day. While numbers have...
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een Junior ROTC cadet killed in Parkland shooting honored as West Point 2025 grad

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Washington — The cadets graduating Saturday from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point spent four years studying strategy, ethics and the art of leadership. They march past statues of battlefield giants, memorize the lessons of Antietam and Afghanistan and are steeped in stories of courage drawn from the long arc of American military history.

But among the lessons on duty and sacrifice for the class of 2025, there's inspiration among their ranks — one not found in the footnotes of war colleges or the annals of Medal of Honor citations. It's the...
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Relatives of Venezuelan detainees in CECOT find comfort in support group

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On May 18, relatives of the Venezuelan migrant detainees in El Salvador's mega prison CECOT, announced to a WhatsApp group the death of Marlene Ramirez, a grandmother who raised one of the men currently detained there, Jonathan Mendoza Ramirez. Her family said she had died of a heart attack, unable to endure the emotional stress of not being able to communicate with her grandson. She could no longer take it, they said.

Since the Trump administration in March removed a group of Venezuelan migrants alleged to be gang members to El Salvador for...
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Republicans aim to punish states that insure unauthorized immigrants

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President Trump's signature budget legislation would punish 14 states that offer health coverage to people in the U.S. without authorization.

The states, most of them Democratic-led, provide insurance to some low-income immigrants — often children — regardless of their legal status. Advocates argue the policy is both humane and ultimately cost-saving.

But the federal legislation, which Republicans have titled the "One Big Beautiful Bill," would slash federal Medicaid reimbursements to those states by billions of dollars a year in total unless they...
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DR Congo strips ex-leader of immunity over treason charges

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Joseph Kabila faces the prospect of being tried in a military court for allegedly backing M23 rebels.
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Watch: 'I didn't hear anything' - man who woke to find cargo ship in garden

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The 135m-ship (443ft) missed Johan Helberg's house in Norway by metres, but he didn't notice a thing.
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US says Sudan used chemical weapons in war as it issues new sanctions

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The state department is imposing new sanctions on the country's government because of the findings.
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DR Congo strips ex-leader of immunity over treason charges

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Joseph Kabila faces the prospect of being tried in a military court for allegedly backing M23 rebels.
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Mob kills Royal Bengal tiger in India's Assam state

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Angry villagers reportedly took the step because the tiger had killed livestock in and posed a threat to their lives.
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