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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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Syria granted sanctions waiver by Trump administration to encourage rebuilding

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The Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions relief for Syria as part of a series of steps to end decades of penalties and to stabilize the country.

The Treasury Department said it will grant Syria a 180-day waiver, known as GL 25, to ease financial restrictions that target the country's former rulers in an effort to give its new leaders a chance to rebuild a nation still scarred by more than a decade of civil war.

It will facilitate the provision of electricity, energy, water, and sanitation, and enable a more effective humanitarian...
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Trump sanctions are ‘full-frontal assault’ on organized crime at the border, expert says

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The Trump Treasury Department's new sanctions are a "full-frontal assault" on one of the deadliest southern border cartels, a local border official told Fox News Digital.

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two high-ranking Cartel del Noreste (CDN) members, Mexican nationals Miguel Angel de Anda Ledezma and Ricardo Gonzalez Sauceda, Wednesday.

CDN was one of eight cartels and transnational criminal groups labeled "foreign terrorist organizations" by the Department of State Feb. 20.

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Hectic two weeks leaves Russia confident - and peace in Ukraine feeling no closer

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On Ukraine peace talks, the Kremlin has played for time through deflections and side-steps, writes the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.
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She found her daughter after 44 years. Now she's suing Korea's government

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Hundreds made damning allegations of fraud, kidnapping and trafficking about an overseas adoption programme.
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Robbery gang guilty of Kim Kardashian heist in Paris

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The robbers have been given jail time for stealing millions of dollars' worth of jewellery belonging to the US celebrity.
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Tensions rise as superpowers scrap for a piece of the Arctic

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As Arctic ice melts, global powers seize new opportunities to extract oil, speed up trade and boost their military presence.
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Harvard foreign students face uncertain future as Trump plan to block enrollment is halted for now

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It comes a day after the administration said it had revoked Harvard's access to student visa programmes.
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Bipartisan effort launched to onshore manufacturing of key supplies never before 'Made in USA'

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EXCLUSIVE: Senators from both sides of the aisle will put forward a resolution calling on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to seek out new sites and critical infrastructure for high-demand products that are currently not made in America, and analyze the viability of making such products here.

Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee chairwoman Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., came together Friday to launch the effort – citing the dual need for onshoring supply chains while bolstering the U.S. workforce.

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Judge strikes down Trump order targeting law firm Jenner & Block

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A federal judge ruled Friday that President Trump's executive order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block is unconstitutional and permanently blocked the administration from enforcing it — a second setback in Mr. Trump's push to punish certain law firms.

U.S. District Judge John Bates, who was appointed by President George W. Bush and is based in Washington, D.C., said the executive order is "violative of the Constitution" and found that the order infringes on the First, Fifth and Sixth amendments.

"This order, like the others, seeks to chill legal...
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Pentagon lost contact with Army chopper in May, causing 2 aborted D.C. landings

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Military air traffic controllers briefly lost contact with an Army helicopter for about 20 seconds as it neared the Pentagon on the flight that caused two commercial jets to abort their landings on May 1 at a Washington airport, the Army told The Associated Press on Friday.

The aborted landings on May 1 added to general unease about continued close calls between government helicopters and commercial airplanes near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after a deadly midair collision in January between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter that...
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Trump announces "partnership" between US Steel and Nippon Steel

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President Trump said Friday that U.S. Steel will keep its headquarters in Pittsburgh as part of what he called a "planned partnership" between the iconic American steelmaker and Japan-based Nippon Steel, which has sought to buy it.

Nippon Steel's nearly $15 billion bid to buy U.S. Steel was blocked by former President Joe Biden. After Mr. Trump became president, it was subject to another national security review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

"I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, US...
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Fox News Politics Newsletter: Trump sets the 'gold standard' for science

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The Fox News Politics Newsletter will not be sent out on Monday, May 25th due to the Memorial Day Holiday. We wish everyone a happy and safe Memorial Day.

Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content. Here's what's happening…

-Hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners released in swap with Russia, Zelenskyy says

-New footage shows Milwaukee judge confronting ICE before allegedly helping illegal immigrant exit

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Trump administration sues four New Jersey cities over sanctuary policies

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The Trump administration is suing four New Jersey cities, accusing local officials of obstructing federal law and infringing on efforts to combat illegal immigration through their sanctuary city policies.

The lawsuit by the Justice Department alleged the cities of Newark, Hoboken, Jersey City and Paterson unlawfully obstructed federal authorities trying to fight illegal immigration.

Mayors Ras Baraka of Newark, Ravi Bhalla of Hoboken, Steven Fulop of Jersey City and Andre Sayegh of Paterson are named as defendants, along with the four city...
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Will gas prices give Trump and Republicans a political boost?

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As Americans hit the road for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, they're getting good news at the gas pumps.

While gas prices have risen roughly 20 cents per gallon since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, according to GasBuddy, a fuel savings platform, "all 50 states are lower than last Memorial Day."

And GasBuddy notes that gas prices are at their "lowest seasonal (Memorial Day) level since 2021."

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that when adjusted for inflation, the average U.S. retail gasoline...
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Several injured in Hamburg knife attack as woman arrested

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A 39-year-old woman has been arrested and a major operation is under way, German police say.
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