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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.
July 3 -
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.
July 3 -
President Donald Trump's multitrillion-dollar tax and spending package moved closer to reality after it passed the Senate.
July 1 -
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.
July 1 -
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.
July 1 -
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.
June 30 -
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.
June 30 -
Senate Republicans are aiming to wipe away budget red ink from the GOP's signature tax-and-spending bill with an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver.
June 24 -
The parliamentarian ruled the proposal is outside of the scope of the fast-track budget process for implementing a $4.2 trillion tax cut.
June 24 -
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June 17
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The prospect of prolonged talks with holdouts threatens Senate Majority Leader John Thune's goal of passing President Trump's tax-cut legislation by July 4.
June 17 -
Senate Republicans propose to cut trillions of dollars in taxes for households and businesses in their version of President Trump's signature economic package.
June 16 -
The sale of federal land would provide billions of dollars to help pay for the massive package of tax cuts in the Senate's version of the bill.
June 12 -
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Republicans in his chamber expect to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promises.
June 10 -
Lawmakers are largely taking their cues from Trump and sticking by the $3 trillion bill at the center of the White House's economic agenda.
June 6 -
A plan to sell thousands of acres of federal land to help pay for the massive package of tax cuts will be returning in the Senate's version of the bill.
June 5 -
The world's richest man is declaring his opposition to tax legislation that's the centerpiece of Trump's domestic agenda.
June 5 -
Musk described the bill as a budget-busting "disgusting abomination." as Republican fiscal hawks stepped up criticism of the massive fiscal package.
June 4 -
Prospects for an even more dire U.S. fiscal trajectory threaten to stoke concerns about the bill among GOP fiscal hawks.
June 4 -
The ruling could present a new obstacle for Republicans who are relying on the revenue to help offset the cost of a $4 trillion tax cut moving through Congress.
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