The Big Beautiful Bill has two features that are common to these “must pass” mega-bills that now dominate our Congress’s way of doing things.

1. It has an overwhelming political imperative to pass the bill. The party in charge of the House and Senate and White House will have accomplished nothing legislatively without it, and so the alternative to passing it is to declare failure.
2. Once it passes, there is something for everybody in the Republican coalition to complain about. Whether it’s the lack of spending controls, the lack of hiring freezes, the non-cuts to entitlements, the deficit spending, raising the debt ceiling, or giving excess tax-relief to millions of upwardly mobile Democrats in blue states via an expansive SALT deduction.

So, I expect it will pass, eventually. And then I expect Rand Paul and Chip Roy to turn back into libertarians, Marjorie Taylor Greene to complain from a populist angle, and so forth.

The Republican Party comes together in order to repel each other once again.