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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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Border czar Tom Homan's security detail costs $1 million a month

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Security for Trump administration border czar Tom Homan costs more than $500,000 a month, multiple sources within the administration told CBS News, an amount that has drawn attention from allies of President Trump who have been seeking to shrink government spending.

The total cost of Homan's security — with roughly $500,000 in salaries for agents plus airfare, hotel bills and other travel expenses for his protective bubble — adds up to around $1 million per month for the Trump appointee, another administration official said.

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Trump signs executive orders to "usher in the American nuclear renaissance"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump on Friday signed several executive orders to help clear the way for more nuclear power development and, in the words of one of his top officials, "usher in the American nuclear renaissance."

"It's a hot industry, it's a brilliant industry," Mr. Trump said of nuclear power before signing the executive orders.

The White House says the orders the president approved Friday will help ensure American energy dominance and provide safe, reliable and affordable energy to the country. The four nuclear energy executive actions the president...
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Vance tells Naval Academy graduates they are facing 'new' and 'very dangerous era' for US

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Vice President JD Vance told graduates at the United States Naval Academy on Friday that they are embarking on a mission in a "new and very dangerous era for our country" as adversaries such as China and Russia are "determined to beat us in every single domain."

Speaking in Annapolis, Vance said the Trump administration has "reversed course" in U.S. foreign policy as there will be "no more undefined missions" and "no more open-ended conflicts."

"We’re turning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests. Now, this...
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Trump signs executive orders bolstering nuclear industry, domestic uranium mining

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President Donald Trump signed several executive orders (EOs) on nuclear energy proliferation and an order removing political considerations from public-sector science, as conservatives claimed the latter was scandalized in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump also signed restoring "gold standard science" as the cornerstone of federal research.

A senior White House official said on Friday there has been a decline in "disruptive research" and investments in biomedical research, along with "serious cases" of fraud and misconduct and the...
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Chaos spreads as desperate Gazans wait for food to arrive

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Lawlessness is stopping food from reaching people, while a clash at an aid convoy last night turned deadly.
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Legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 81

  • News source: BBC News - World
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He was known for dramatic and unflinching black-and-white images of hardship, conflict and natural beauty.
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Hundreds of border agents to help ICE with arrests in U.S. interior

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Trump administration is planning to dispatch hundreds of border agents to different parts of the country so they can help Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest unauthorized immigrants in the U.S interior, three sources familiar with the plan told CBS News.

The plan would be the latest escalation in the Trump administration's aggressive efforts to muster the vast resources and personnel of agencies across the federal government to support ICE in its bid to carry out what the president has vowed will be the largest deportation operation in...
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Biden struggled to film 2024 campaign videos amid declining health, new book claims: 'The man could not speak'

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Former President Joe Biden struggled to get through filming campaign videos, or quick, filmed keynote addresses for various groups during the 2024 campaign due to his declining health, according to a new book.

The book, "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," said that Biden stumbled through filming campaign videos so much that the footage was ultimately deemed "unusable." The nonfiction book was published Tuesday and is authored by journalists Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios...
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Republican AGs visit US-Mexico border wall as Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' clears expansion funding

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YUMA, ARIZ. – Republican attorneys general from 11 states visited the U.S.-Mexico border wall in remote Yuma, Arizona, this week, touting a more than 90% decrease in illegal crossings since President Donald Trump began his second term.

Their visit came a day before the House narrowly passed Trump’s "big, beautiful bill," which in part allocates $46.5 billion to revive construction of the wall, which at its current stage covers just a quarter of the approximately 1,900-mile-long stretch separating the United States from Mexico. In Yuma, a city of...
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Dems call budget bill ‘bureaucratic water torture’ as GOP ‘glad to have the ball in our court’

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Senate reaction to the House’s passage of its "big, beautiful bill" was sharply divided, with Democrats warning of long-term harm to the working class and Republicans arguing it would help that very group.

"Republicans’ reconciliation bill dismantles the American Dream and strips health care, food assistance, and more away from millions of hardworking Americans," Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., fumed in a Thursday statement.

"Republicans are taking a chainsaw to critical services that American families depend on and using them as a...
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By Dawn's Early Light: Battles Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will face in the Senate

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"This is one big ugly bill that House Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people under the cover of darkness," argued House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. at 6:09 a.m. Thursday morning on the House floor.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The sun was rising.

"Why are we here at 3 a.m., fast-tracking this bill?" asked Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., during House debate on the measure at 3:15 a.m. ET Thursday.

GOP HOLDOUTS SOUND ALARM ON $36T DEBT CRISIS AS TRUMP'S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ PASSES HOUSE VOTE

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Judge temporarily pauses Trump move to cancel Harvard student visa policy after lawsuit

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A court has temporarily paused the Trump administration's move to cancel Harvard's student visa program.

Harvard filed suit against the Trump administration over the policy, and a judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order to preserve status quo while the case plays out in court.

Judge Allison Burroughs, a 2014 Obama appointee, set a hearing for 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Boston federal court.

Harvard said the policy will affect more than 7,000 visa holders — nearly a quarter of the student body — and is a "blatant violation of the...
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Kangaroo 'tries to drown' man in Australian floodwaters

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The kangaroo held the man down in floodwater after they got into a fight near Port Macquarie.
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Belgium's future queen caught up in Trump's foreign student ban effort at Harvard

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The future queen of Belgium may face complications pursuing her master's degree at Harvard amid the Trump administration's move on Thursday to ban the Ivy League school from enrolling international students.

Princess Elisabeth, 23, is the eldest of four children to Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, and the future heir to the throne. The Duchess of Brabant is currently pursuing a master's degree in public policy at Harvard, following an undergraduate degree in history and politics from Oxford University in the U.K.

“Princess Elisabeth...
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WATCH: Blue-state Republican 'thankful' for move to scrap gas-car ban as Newsom vows court fight to save it

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President Donald Trump could soon sign into law a joint congressional resolution scrapping California’s Environmental Protection Agency waiver that requires an end to gasoline-powered car sales by 2035. It's a move provoking pushback from Golden State leaders in Sacramento.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats have argued that it is an illegal use of the Congressional Review Act, whereas Republicans, including state legislators, say the move is a necessary step toward curbing regulation in the state.

"I'm thankful that the folks in...
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