Trump wants the Big Beautiful Bill on his desk by July 4 heres what has to happen next

Republicans are finally in the homestretch of passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act through Congress after months of intense negotiations and legislative work.The Senate voted 51-49 late Saturday to proceed with the megabill, kicking off a lengthy procedural process to eventually pass it as soon as Monday if GOP leadership can keep enough Republicans on board.Once the megabill clears the Senate, it will head back to the House, where it needs to pass the lower chamber again before it can land on President Trump’s desk for his signature.President Trump and GOP leaders have imposed a deadline to get the bill signed on the Fourth of July.

However, even the commander in chief — who has worked hard to whip his narrow majority into passing the legislation, admitted in a Fox News interview Sunday that timeline may not be possible.The bill does have a hard deadline — the debt ceiling which is set to be reached in August or September, according to estimates.

The bill must be passed by then in order to raise the US government’s borrowing limit, currently set at $36.1 trillion.Here is what will happen between now and then:Democrats have very limited options to stop Republicans from wrangling the megabill through the Senate.But there are things they can do to slow down the process.

One of them is the “reading of the bill,” which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) forced.That process involved Senate clerks reading the roughly 940-page bill out loud on the chamber floor.That process is time-consuming and was expected to wrap up sometime by midday Sunday.Notably, Democrats essentially can’t stop the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act if Republicans have the votes for it, because the GOP is leveraging the reconciliation process, which allows them to circumvent the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster.The reconciliation process is complex and significantly limits the types of legislation Republicans can include in the legislative bundl...