Hugh Hewitt: A Big Beautiful Bill by the Fourth?

It was on January 5 of this year when President Trump—on my Salem program— said his preference was for “one big, beautiful bill.”

And thus he started a snowball rolling down Congressional Hill and that gathered momentum and should be on his desk, perhaps by July 4, certainly not later than Labor Day. Trump willed H.R. 1 into being the way he willed his return to the Oval Office: By speaking clearly and repeatedly about what had to be done.

Turns out the commander-in-chief is also the “closer-in-chief.”

The president worked closely with Speaker Johnson, Leader Scalise and Majority Whip Emmer. He got what he promised on the campaign trail last year in it—including no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.

Now, he’ll help Senate Majority Leader Thune, Whip Barrasso and Conference Chair Tom Cotton in the Senate pilot H.R. 1 through the narrows of that body.

All the Senate has to do is polish up H.R. 1 and the Congress can go home for a well-earned summer vacation.

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