JULY 2, 2025 |

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In Washington, D.C., Vice President J.D. Vance cast the deciding vote in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday to break a tie on what President Donald Trump has described as “one big, beautiful bill.”

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A marathon, 27-hour session of voting—a new, historical record—led up to the final moment yesterday. The enormous bill includes the president’s campaign promises on border security, energy, national security, spending cuts, and taxes. The bill also includes Medicaid reforms and an increase in defense spending.

Wyoming’s Senior Senator, John Barrasso, the Majority Whip, released a statement following the bill’s passage, saying the Senate Republicans kept their promises to the American people. The senator’s statement reads, “We voted to put more money in people’s pockets, to make our communities safer, and to stop the largest tax increase in history.”

“I worked to secure major wins for Wyoming. Our bill makes significant investments in rural healthcare and the development of life-saving cures. We cut taxes for Wyoming families, workers, and small businesses.”

The bill passed Tuesday in the Senate also expands the child tax credit. Wyoming also should see an economic boost from new laws that take the Joe Biden era breaks off Wyoming energy.

Wyoming families will also see about $1,700 in saving on their taxes versus toward what was owed to Uncle Sam during the Biden presidency. The bill passed yesterday makes the 2017 tax cuts permanent.

Other instruments in the tax bill passed Tuesday:

  • 10,000 Wyoming workers will benefit from no tax on tips – the bill creates a deduction of up to $25,000 for qualified tips for millions of tipped workers like waitresses, barbers, hairstylists, and taxi drivers.
  • More than 65,000 Wyoming families will benefit from the preserved and expanded child tax credit.
  • 50,000 small businesses in Wyoming will realize a tax cut.

H.R. 1 also includes language requiring the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to hold quarterly oil and gas lease sales in nine western states, including Wyoming.

H.R. 1 also includes several provisions that rescind the majority of the Biden administration’s green energy priorities. This includes pausing the Democrat tax on methane emissions for ten years.

Other provisions in the bill will allow small businesses to expense up to $2.5 million in equipment purchases, helping the Wyoming agriculture community.

Coming out of the senate with a razor thin majority, the bill now heads to the House, where a handful of moderates have protested the Medicaid reforms, and a large block of spending hawks, mostly consisting of House Freedom Caucus members, want more spending cuts in line with the version of the bill the House sent to the Senate.

The first procedural vote is expected Wednesday morning at 9 am. The July 4th deadline remains within reach, although plenty of drama is still ahead in the next two days.

The GOP’s spending bill excludes roughly 1.4 million illegal migrants from the nation’s Medicaid program. The vote is an economic blow to blue-state leaders in 14 states who subsidize families of illegal migrants to help inflate their consumer and real estate economies. For example, adult migrants get healthcare aid via Medicaid funding in sanctuary-states, such as California, New York, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington State, and in GOP-led Utah.

Missouri Republican Eric Schmitt heralded the passage of the bill that it will likely cost blue states, already drowning in deficit spending, with tens of billions of dollars of more debt.

The goal is to send illegals home and help ordinary Americans by nudging up wages and reducing rental costs.

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