Take the Win on the Big Beautiful Bill
It isn’t ideal, but it is what was possible. And now both the Senate and the President get their turns.
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by Scott McKay
May 27, 2025
Early Thursday morning, H.R. 1 finally cleared its final hurdles and scraped through to passage in the House of Representatives by a 215-214 vote.
This is the Big Beautiful Bill you’ve heard so much about.
And it’s certainly big — over 1,100 pages. Is it beautiful? Not really.
But it is the bill.
And it isn’t all that useful to complain about the thing. Some of the people out there screeching over its passage need a bit of a reality check.
Let’s start with the complaint that has been utterly ubiquitous on the Right over the past month or so, which is that we’ve got a do-nothing Congress.
They’ve been on vacation — or rather, they’ve been back in their districts — more than normal, is the basis of that complaint. And because of that, since President Trump’s inauguration, they’ve passed fewer legislation in terms of the number of bills than previous congresses have.
Except that’s not a function of laziness, a lack of ideas, or legislative torpor. It’s a strategic decision.
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