Erik Wasson

President Donald Trump secured a sweeping shift in U.S. domestic policy as the House passed a $3.4 trillion fiscal package that cuts taxes, curtails spending on safety-net programs and reverses much of Joe Biden's efforts to move the country toward a clean-energy economy.

The bill includes tax cuts Republicans campaigned on, a phase-out of Biden-era clean energy incentives and funding for the president's crackdown on illegal immigration.

President Trump is meeting with a faction of conservative lawmakers at the White House who have threatened to sink his signature tax legislation.

The $3.3 trillion tax and spending cut bill passed the Senate after a furious push by Republican leaders to persuade holdouts to back the legislation.

The Senate worked through the night on the $3.3 trillion tax and spending package, with Republican leaders still negotiating with key GOP holdouts into the morning.

Senate Republicans remain at odds over how much to cut Medicaid and other social safety-net programs and how rapidly to end Biden-era clean energy tax breaks.

GOP senators voted in favor of the plan to count the extension of Trump's 2017 tax cuts as costing nothing by using an unprecedented accounting maneuver.

The $4.5 trillion tax cut bill prevailed in a crucial Senate test vote after hours of negotiations between Vice President JD Vance, GOP leaders and Republican holdouts.

The agreement involved raising the limit on the state and local tax deduction to $40,000 a year for five years.

The remarks give Republican negotiators additional breathing room as lawmakers remain at loggerheads over several issues in the massive economic package.