With 10 days remaining until their self-imposed deadline to pass the Big Beautiful Bill, Republicans are racing to work through their various parochial grievances with Trump’s priority tax and spending legislation. Sure, a majority of Americans disapprove of the multitrillion-dollar reconciliation package, and Republican lawmakers are woefully divided on whether it cuts too much, too little, or just doesn’t cut the right things. And yet, as the July Fourth recess approaches, there’s near universal confidence on Capitol Hill that the bill will inevitably get passed… somehow. “No doubt, it will pass one way or another,” a source close to House G.O.P. leadership told me. “It’s the entire agenda wrapped in one thing.”
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