How Senate Republicans Unified and Passed Trump’s “Big and Beautiful Act”

Senate Republicans leave Washington this week for sale president Donald Trump’s “Big and beautiful Bill”, but the path to making and passing legislation began a year and a half ago.

Trump’s $3.3 trillion Megabill is packed with his legislative priorities on border security, defense and energy, a month for making products months. This is the conceptual policy in the bill, which is intended to expand or permanently enact the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which is the driving force behind Republicans’ willingness to pass the bill.

But Senate Republicans have little time to rest their crown and celebrate the passage of the bill, a month since Trump signed it, pushing forward a $9 billion kickback program and trying to pass a Senate Democratic lockdown on presidential nominees.

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The journey through the bill began with Republicans working on three trio in Washington in early 2024, then-Republican Congress chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo). Senate Republicans Hash, what the Republican agenda might look like if November wins.

Months later, Trump visited with Senate Republicans to discuss their strategies they have been working behind the scenes.

“With President Trump at the White House, we talked about how Republicans will get America back on track,” Barrasso said at the time. “It starts with helping families escape the pain of high Democratic prices, free up American energy, stopping Democratic tax increases and ensuring the southern border. Republicans are united.”

Real, sophisticated work began in January, where the concept was brought into legislation.

Senate Majority Leader John ThuneRs.D., chooses to go beyond the house and move forward using the Senate’s own budget framework that initially divides the “big and beautiful Bill” into two parts. This has increased pressure on the House of Commons Chinese Republicans to merge behind their plans.

However, for much of the early years, the Senate was waiting for the House to fine-tune and pass its own version of the bill. Nevertheless, Thune and his leadership team, including Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. , dedicated to products from one side of the building to another side of the Senate Republicans can work with.

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Journalists move around Senate Majority Leader John Thune between the Senate Chambers at the U.S. Congress Building on August 1, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

When the bill goes to the House of Lords in early June, pressure to provide Trump with finished products by July 4, a manual deadline to help Koror legislators complete the bill’s work.

One of the main differences in the House of Lords before the bill met the floor was the nature of the cuts on Medicaid, especially for provider tax rates. Ultimately, the problem was solved by creating a $50 billion rural hospital fund, but the lawmakers who issued the alert vowed to make sure changes to providers never take effect.

“I think it’s a huge mistake,” Sen. Josh HolleyR-Mo. , said at the time. “I think it’s an unhappy episode in Congress, and it’s about reducing Medicaid efforts.”

“And I think, frankly, my party needs to do some soul searches,” he continued. “If you want to be a working class party, you have to serve people of the working class. You can’t take health care from the laborers.”

Senate Minority Leader when the bill did eventually crash into a multi-day incident that passed a procedural obstacle Chuck SchumerDN.Y., forced reading of the entire bill and marathon votes, Senate Republicans still don’t fully grasp it.

Initially, it was Senator Ron-Wis.

They got an amendment that never reached the floor in the end, but was enough to get them back, thus causing the bill to fall. Their resistance began with the first huddle in Thun’s office outside the Senate floor.

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North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis announced in June that he would not run for his third term in the Senate when he was in 2026. (Getty Image)

R-Wyo. Senator Cynthia Lummis had a closed conversation with them and told Fox News Digital that while her vote was not dependent on adding changes, she wanted to do so for why.

“It saves a lot of money,” she said. “It saves a lot of money, so I would love to see us take advantage of this opportunity because we are able to open up mandatory spending, and take advantage of this opportunity to really save money.”

Later, in the early hours of the night, Republicans bounced from Thun’s office to the Senate floor, and in their way to get Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s R-Alaska Senator, reached a deal to support the bill, knowing Siss. SusanCollins, R-Maine and R-Maine and R-Maine and R-Alaska Thom TillisRN.C. can vote against it.

“Sometimes it has to be put on the clock, because at some point, the argument has to end,” Mullin said to the Fox News digital numbers. “That’s why we have to do some on the floor. We have to force our hands.”

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Finally, only three Republicans, Rand Paul, Collins and Tillis of Kentucky, voted against the bill. From there it arrived at the House where Republicans in the House had their own dramatic rally to pass legislative behemoth.

Now, as Republicans spread out to the state to sell the bill to their voters, Tillis said the “basic” message lawmakers can share is that they avoid tax hikes nationwide.

“The shame of Medicaid provisions is that the vast majority of the bill is supported,” he told Fox News Digital. “I think we have to remind them that the problem with tax bills is that they are not seeing cuts, but if we don’t, they will see historic growth.”

“So we need to remind them that what we are doing is continuing our beginnings, and the economy we create, that it can bear Kuvid,” he continued. “And I firmly believe that if we don’t pass it. We will be in a different position.”