After a 19-hour meeting of the Rules Committee to clear the bill and a 7 a.m. vote after a wee-hours procedural maneuvering, the House passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 by the smallest margin imaginable (one vote) was always the the likeliest outcome.

Yes, multiple factions threatened to withhold their votes over this or that provision, most notably the hard-line conservatives of the Freedom Caucus and a band of congressmen from high-tax blue states who wanted liberalization of the existing cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions. But in the end, all the factions got some concessions, and no one wanted to be responsible for denying Donald Trump the bill that contained virtually all of his legislative agenda for this year. For their part, Democrats are mostly satisfi

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