NEW YORK, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill with a vote of 218 to 214 on Thursday.
The bill will be sent to the president's desk for signing by the deadline of July 4, which was set by Trump.
Two Republican representatives, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, voted against the bill.
The House passed an earlier draft of the bill in May and sent it to the Senate, but the draft was broadly revised there and narrowly passed senators' vote with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie on Tuesday.
The tax and spending bill includes tax cuts and funding boosts for military expenditure and border security. What's contentious is that the bill is forecast to add 3.3 trillion U.S. dollars to the national debt currently at a high level while stripping millions of people off Medicaid and food stamps.
This is Trump's first major legislative achievement in his second term. Republican Congress members were widely divided on the bill, which passed the Senate and House voting only after the president and his Capitol Hill allies pressured those Republicans with different ideas to stand in line.
