The House spent weeks in painstaking negotiations to be able to pass President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” early Thursday morning. Now, Senate Republicans are preparing to put it through a buzzsaw.

After a meeting with Trump and conservative holdouts, Speaker Mike Johnson said he planned told hold a floor vote Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

Senate Republicans say changes are coming for the sprawling domestic policy bill carrying President Trump’s agenda. Their colleagues who took political risks to push it through the House might not like them.

US President Donald Trump’s signature tax bill passed the 435-member House of Representatives on Thursday morning by one vote. The sprawling, multitrillion-dollar package proposed by Republicans, which would (among many other things) slash funding for safety net programs in favor of extending tax cuts,

If the House provision is enacted, the SALT cap would rise to $40,000, up from $30,000 in the previous plan, and phases out over $500,000.

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Republicans in the General Assembly want to make some county school board elections partisan, adding two new counties to the roster this week. The Senate revised House Bill 116, which would enact the change in Columbus County, as well as Johnston and Gaston counties. T. Keung Hui has the story.

While House Republicans and Trump appear to be aligned in their desire to investigate Biden’s fitness to serve, there is some frustration brewing among congressional committees about how quickly the Trump administration is responding to some of their requests, according to multiple GOP congressional sources familiar with the matter.