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The ‘Big, Beautiful’ Question: What Does Trump Want in the Bill?

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As the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill moves to the Senate, one major question remains: What exactly does President Donald Trump want in it?

Trump has consistently pushed for the bill’s passage, despite saying he doesn’t view it as perfect.

“It’s an unbelievable bill,” Trump said in an Oval Office event with Elon Musk on Friday. 

Passing the One Big Beautiful Bill means we get One Big Beautiful Tax Cut.

Making President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent will ensure American families can keep more money in their pockets for generations to come.

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He added that he would like to see some changes, such as deeper cuts to taxes, and possibly to spending, although he did not say that explicitly.

“There are things I’d like to see, maybe cut a little bit more. I’d like to see a bigger cut in taxes. It’s going to be the largest tax decrease or cut in the history of our country. I’d like to see it get down to an even lower number,” he said.

Beyond his core priorities of extending his first-term 2017 tax cuts and raising the debt ceiling to avoid a default on debt, Trump has mostly been happy to leave it to Congress to negotiate its way through a quagmire of issues.

Those issues include how aggressively Republicans........

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