The president exhorted Republicans to get behind the legislation after efforts to pass it hit resistance. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries decried the package in a record-long floor speech.

Opponents of the inaptly named One Big Beautiful Bill Act only needed three House Republicans to balk. In the end, the votes weren't there.

The deeply divided House is moving to take up President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package after a group of Republican holdouts reversed course and agreed to allow the bill to come to the floor,