In today's issue:

▪ Trump on cusp of 'big, beautiful' win

▪ President touts Vietnam trade framework

▪ Wisconsin court upholds abortion access

▪ White House plays hardball on tariffs

President Trump is on the cusp of a major legislative win today as his “big, beautiful bill” heads to a final vote in the House.

Lawmakers teed up the bill to prepare to send it to Trump's desk this morning after dramatically surmounting an internal GOP revolt, with more than 18 hours of overnight arm twisting to clear a key procedural hurdle.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended his gamble to heed the president's Friday deadline to enact what could be the most significant piece of legislation of Trump’s second term.

“We’re going to meet our July 4 deadline, which everybody made fun of me for saying,” Johnson said early today.

▪ The Hill: Trump begins the summer on a hot streak.

▪ The Hill: Follow live coverage of the House vote.

The chamber after 3 a.m. voted 219-213 to adopt a procedural rule on the sweeping measure that was in jeopardy before midnight. Five Republicans who initially cast votes in opposition dwindled to just one, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), who joined Democrats in opposing the procedural motion on the Senate’s version of the mammoth tax and spending bill.

The extended vote on advancing the bill followed Republicans keeping another procedural vote open for more than seven hours, making it the longest House vote in history and surpassing the previous record set in 2021.

Johnson, who could afford to lose only three votes, held the vote open and cajoled GOP holdouts with help from Trump. The president spent much of Wednesday and the early morning hours Thursday speaking to individual Republicans while trying to allay misgivings about cuts to Medicaid, the state of the national debt and the GOP’s prized tax reductions.

The Speaker had also spent most of the day Wednesday trying to win over members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, who threatened to tank the bill amid deficit concerns, along with other reticient members.

One of the crucial holdouts was Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has been at odds with Trump over the megabill for weeks. During the call with Trump around 1 a.m. Thursday, Massie suggested he was ready to drop his opposition and support the rule if the president stopped attacking him, The Hill's Mychael Schnell reported.

The president urged holdouts to deny Democrats “a win,” which turned out to be a potent political entreaty. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), who in May voted against the House GOP’s initial version of the megabill, said he is a “yes” on enacting Trump’s legislative agenda.

“I gotta say, no one puts a deal together like President Trump, he’s a master. But I think one of the other persuasive things was just looking at the Democrats’ reaction to it,” he said, referring to political pummeling from House and Senate Democrats.

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), who is running for governor, said, “The president is the best closer in the business, and he got a lot of members to ‘yes.’”

Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) said Trump complained to fellow Republicans about the nation’s borrowing authority, which must be raised by mid-August. “The big message from the president, and I agree, is the debt ceiling,” he told reporters.

SMART TAKE with BLAKE BURMAN

An ace popped up the sleeve of the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act that alarmed the gambling industry. The provision would limit deductions to 90 percent of losses for gambling and betting. Right now, the deduction is 100 percent. That means hypothetically, if someone won $100,000, and then lost $100,000, they’d be taxed on $10,000 of profit they didn’t make. The new provision would generate an estimated $1.1 billion in savings for the federal government, according to an estimate by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

“We’re going to try to take it out. If it doesn’t go back to Rules, we can’t, and then I’ll introduce a separate bill,” Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), who represents Las Vegas, told me. “It pushes people into the black market if they don’t do regulated gaming because they have a tax disadvantage.”

This could foreshadow follow-on legislation, with some lawmakers not liking what cards they were dealt, and not yet ready to fold either.

Burman hosts "The Hill" weeknights, 6p/5c on NewsNation.

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