You could see President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed by his July 4th goal thanks to progress made over the weekend, including receiving support to move forward with debate from a Wisconsin senator. The debate on the bill wrapped up Monday morning ahead of a period where Senate leaders from both sides can offer up amendments. The bill moved forward over the weekend after Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson said the bill had earned enough of his support to proceed with the process. “Biden and the Democrats left behind enormous messes that we are trying to clean up — an open border, wars, and massive deficits,” Johnson said in a statement on Facebook. “After working for weeks with President Trump and his highly capable economic team, I am convinced that he views this as a necessary first step and will support my efforts to help put America on a path to fiscal sustainability.” He told Fox and Friends Weekend on Saturday that there is still a need to debate the bill, adding that Trump wanted the big, beautiful bill to become even better in the Senate.

 

 

On the opposite side of the aisle, Wisconsin U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin painted a different picture of the bill's impact. She said it was what she heard when she crisscrossed the state at the same time as Trump last fall.

 

 

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is slated to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, place new restrictions on Medicaid and food stamps, raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, and make changes to the tax code to limit the impact on tips and overtime and make the basic standard deduction permanent.