Friday, President Donald Trump signed a controversial and controversial tax and expenditure package during a celebration of the day of theatrical independence on the southern lawn of the White House – an event rich in inscriptions and in politics, but accompanied by the economic and social upheavals that the legislation should be unleashed across the country.
With a red, white, white and blue drunk through the White House, and fighter planes roaring above in a choreographed overflight, Trump used the moment to represent himself as a president who delivers – on the battlefield, in the courtroom and now in the congress.
“The promises have made, the promises held-and we held them,” he said, a few moments before using a ceremonial hammer offered by Chamber Mike Johnson to seal the adoption of the bill.
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The signing crowned weeks of intraparty bruises and a legislative SLOG of several months, while the Republicans rushed to pass the package of several dollars before the deadline of Aboriginal Trump on July 4. The final law extends Trump’s tax reductions in 2017, eliminates taxes on Social Security advice and income, and makes the scanning reductions in Medicaid programs and food coupons – long republican objectives that are now emptied.
A fight on the right: Trump against his base
But beyond its astounding tax scope and its deeply polarizing content, the adoption of the bill is also remarkable for the political storm which he ignited within the president’s own party. By realizing what could be his most consecutive legislative victory to date, Trump bulldozer the opposition not only of the Democrats, but of eminent voices on the right, including allies like Elon Musk and high -level conservative legislators who openly questioned the long -term consequences of the bill.
For months, Trump has puffed with aggressively to unify the Republicans around the bill, knowing that this would be confronted with the total resistance of the Democrats. But the real battle took place in the GOP itself.
The technological billionaire Elon Musk – always considered as an unofficial advisor to Trump and one of his most influential external supporters – has publicly opposed the size and reach of legislation, in particular the provisions reducing the financing of energy programs adapted to technology and by extending federal surveillance under the presence of the application of immigration. Musk would have urged the allies of the Congress to vote against the bill, arguing that he betrayed “economic freedom” and marked a return to “Federal Overreach swollen”.
Its resistance was part of a broader split on the American right, where tax conservatives and libertarian republicans fell on the planned impact of 3.3 billions of dollars of the national debt law. In the house, two Republicans have broken the ranks – notably the representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a libertarian curator who frequently clashed with Trump despite the alignment with him ideologically. Massie condemned the package as “fiscally mad” and a “betrayal of the principles of the limited government that the party claimed to represent one day”.
In the Senate, the Republican of Caroline du Nord Thom Tillis went further, publicly opposing the bill and announcing that he would not ask for re -election. Tillis had long warned that reducing access to health care for millions of people by granting tax alternatives to billionaires would turn politically. His position has won him the anger of Trump’s political apparatus, which quickly started supporting the potential challengers for its seat in the Senate.
The legislation narrowly adopted the Senate thanks to the vice-president JD Vance, who broke up an equality of 50-50 by putting the decisive vote. Although Trump’s skeptical, Vance has become a reliable executor of the president’s agenda.
A large -scale dismantling of democratic heritage
The bill marks a radical rejection of political architecture posed by former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. It repeals the main parts of the Medicaid Midder’s expansion of the Act respecting affordable care, the tax credits linked to the climate rejected by the climate adopted under the Biden Inflation Reduction Act, and the transfer of the key provisions to help low -income families.
According to the Budget Office of the non -partisan Congress, the package will push nearly 12 million Americans out of health coverage and reduce the eligibility for food aid to millions of others. At the same time, he devotes tens of billions to the construction of new migrant detention centers, widens the application of federal immigration and strengthens surveillance programs through the southern border.
Trump defended the cuts as a compromise necessary to stimulate what he described as an “economic rocket”. Addressing the participants of July 4 before signing the bill, he said: “We are going to make this strongest, richest and most free country he has ever been. It starts by leaving Washington from your pocket and your doctor’s office.”
Democrats quickly responded. The president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, condemned the law as “devastating”, accusing Trump and the Republicans of “offering billionaires a gift of 5 billions of dollars while stealing families of workers of basic dignity”.
The president of AFL-CIO, Liz Shuler, echoes criticism, qualifying the bill “The worst legislation of job killers in modern history” and warning that it would leave tens of millions of millions of “more vulnerable, more desperate and more disposable”.
A campaign plan – and a mid -term battlefield
While fireworks started and Trump and First Lady Melania danced on Truman’s balcony at the “YMCA” – a now familiar campaign anthem – the president’s political machine was already moving in campaign mode. The White House designed the bill not only as a political achievement, but as the cornerstone of Trump’s mid-term strategy in 2026.
Party officials have confirmed that the Republican leadership provides for a “victory tour” to present the main promises of the bill in the Swing States, while the Democrats are preparing to use it as a rallying cry for what they say to be a betrayal of the American working class.
Plans for national rallies, protest watches, voter registration readers and targeted advertising campaigns are already underway. The DNC would have commissioned a series of attack ads focused on republicans in vulnerable districts, linking them directly to Medicaid cuts and food coupons, and the 3.3 dollars of the bill projected the addition to the national debt.
The polls show a divided country. A Washington Post / Ipsos survey has revealed that if most Americans support the elimination of taxes on advice and stimulating children’s tax credits, majorities are opposed to reducing food aid and widening immigration detention expenses. Almost 60% said it was “unacceptable” that the bill increases the national debt beyond its current level of 36 billions of dollars.
For Trump, however, legislative victory is personal. After a burst of victories from the Supreme Court and a demonstration of military force after the bombing of Iranian nuclear installations last month, the budget bill adds to a series of momentum that could shape the tone of the 2026 elections.
But even some within his party warn that the real consequences of the bill only felt in months – when families begin to lose Medicaid, food insecurity and debt begins to climb faster than expected.
