America’s best birthday gift: Trump calls new legislation ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

US President Donald Trump declared victory as he celebrated the passage of what he’s calling the “One Big Beautiful Bill” — a sweeping piece of legislation that he says fulfils nearly every promise he made on the 2024 campaign trail, particularly to voters in Iowa.

“There could be no better birthday present for America than the One Big Beautiful Bill,” Trump said to a roaring crowd, referencing the bill’s passage just ahead of Independence Day. “This bill delivers the strongest border on Earth, the strongest economy on Earth, the strongest military on Earth.”

Trump also emphasised its importance to rural voters, particularly in farm-heavy states. “Very importantly for Iowa, this bill rescues over 2 million family farms from the so-called estate tax, or the Death Tax,” Trump said.

Framing the bill as both a patriotic milestone and a political promise kept, Trump claimed the measure locks in every major commitment he made to Iowa in 2024.

“With this bill, every major promise I made to the people of Iowa in 2024 became a promise kept,” he said. “America is on a winning streak like, frankly, nobody has ever seen before.”

WHAT IS ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’?

Donald Trump’s new tax and spending proposal, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” is a sweeping package that aims to permanently extend the 2017 tax cuts while ramping up federal spending on defence, border security, and energy. The bill also includes cuts to social safety net programs, reflecting Trump’s broader fiscal priorities.

A key feature of the bill is a USD 350 billion border and national security plan, which includes USD 46 billion to expand the US-Mexico border wall, USD 45 billion for 100,000 migrant detention beds, and funding to hire 10,000 new ICE officers, each offered a USD 10,000 signing bonus.

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