{"id":10844,"date":"2025-07-01T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-wavers-on-july-4-megabill-deadline\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:01:53","slug":"trump-wavers-on-july-4-megabill-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-wavers-on-july-4-megabill-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wavers on July 4 megabill deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump appeared to leave room to extend his July 4 deadline for Congress to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as the Senate scrambles to push through the legislation amid Republican infighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;d love to do July 4th, but I think it&#8217;s very hard to do July 4th,\u201d Trump told reporters on the South Lawn on Tuesday, before adding that the goal is \u201csomewhere around there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fate of the sweeping megabill remains up in the air, as Republican leaders struggle to secure enough votes to push the legislation through the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly sought to firm up GOP votes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/26\/white-house-megabill-deadline-stands-00426638\" target=\"_blank\">blasting holdouts as \u201cnot good people<\/a>\u201d and not so subtly <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114768769011733248\" target=\"_blank\">reminding Republicans not to go \u201ctoo crazy<\/a>,\u201d because they \u201cstill have to get reelected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even though the president and his allies have launched a pressure campaign to encourage movement from Republicans in the Senate, Trump began to waffle on the self-imposed July 4 ultimatum as it drew closer.<\/p>\n<p>The president on Friday said the deadline was \u201cnot the end-all,\u201d and that \u201cit can go longer, but we\u2019d like to get it done by that time if possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump appeared to leave room to extend his July 4 deadline for Congress to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as the Senate scrambles to push through the legislation amid Republican infighting. \u201cI&#8217;d love to do July 4th, but I think it&#8217;s very hard to do July 4th,\u201d Trump told reporters on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}