Senate Republicans and members of the Trump administration highlighted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s goals in the face of a tense battle to get it to the president’s desk.
President Donald Trump and the White House are pushing for the bill to get passed by Friday, which marks the Fourth of July this year. Ahead of the bill narrowly passing the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) explained that the tax cuts Trump provided his first term are set to expire at the end of this year, which he warned would be “cataclysmic to the economy.”
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“So we saw that growth in President Trump’s first term. You saw record wage growth, every demographic, every socioeconomic class did much better. We want to build on that,” Schmitt said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime, which was guest-hosted by Fox & Friends cohost Charlie Hurt Monday night.
“So we want to make those permanent. We need to build on that with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. We’re also, Charlie, going to have money to secure the border and finish that wall, front that money for more ICE agents, more detention beds for the deportation, more money for our military, and all with the savings,” Schmitt said.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) has suggested there are “two choices” with this bill: supporting it and moving forward with Trump’s vision for the nation, or voting against it and staying with “Biden-era policies.”
“It doesn’t work out that way, so Republicans are going to support this bill overwhelmingly and move forward,” Mullin said on Fox News’s Hannity.
Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum argued that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act “delivers” on border security and reducing the cost of living, which he argued were two factors Trump ran on. Burgum also celebrated how the administration is working on energy, suggesting that “scam” windmills and solar energy cannot be relied upon solely.
“They do not stand on their own two feet,” Burgum said on Jesse Watters Primetime. “We’ve been subsidizing wind for 30 years. There’ve been 12 extensions to these credits. It’s time to just say, ‘If this industry can’t stand on its own two feet after three decades, then it’s time to call it quits.’”
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has said the bill “fulfills” the campaign promises that Trump made before the election. Miller also said he was “sick and tired” of various “lies” being made about the bill, which he called “the most conservative bill of my lifetime.”
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“Tax cuts, defense, border security, homeland security, welfare reform, and the largest spending cut in one bill that has ever been enacted,” Miller said on Hannity. “So Sean, let’s work together. Let’s pass this bill. Let’s get it to President Trump’s desk by July 4th.”
Trump has also chimed in on getting the bill signed, writing on Truth Social that it is the “most important of its kind in history.”
Following the bill’s passage in the Senate, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) said on X that he has filed an amendment to delete it and restore the original, “big, beautiful bill” by the House of Representatives. Ogles warned that the Senate’s version “guts key Trump provisions.”