{"id":10852,"date":"2025-07-01T19:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-reiterates-july-4th-megabill-deadline\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:16:44","slug":"trump-reiterates-july-4th-megabill-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-reiterates-july-4th-megabill-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reiterates July 4th megabill deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump reiterated his demand that Congress pass Republicans\u2019 agenda-defining megabill before July 4th, despite softening on that deadline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/01\/congress\/trump-megabill-deadline-00434824\" target=\"_blank\"><u>as recently as Tuesday<\/u><\/a> morning.<\/p>\n<p>Trump urged House Republicans in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon to quickly pass the Senate-approved version of the sweeping domestic policy bill so he can sign before the holiday on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are on schedule \u2014 Let\u2019s keep it going, and be done before you and your family go on a July 4thvacation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114779394158777330\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Trump wrote<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also called on House GOP leadership to ignore the \u201cgrandstanders\u201d and unite the caucus, even as a pair of Republicans on the House Rules Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/01\/congress\/rules-republicans-tee-off-on-senate-bill-00435448\" target=\"_blank\"><u>have lambasted<\/u><\/a> the Senate version of the bill, jeopardizing leadership\u2019s ability to bring the bill to a floor vote quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my GOP friends in the House: Stay UNITED, have fun, and Vote \u201cYAY.\u201d GOD BLESS YOU ALL!,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Senate narrowly passing the bill on Tuesday, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/01\/congress\/trump-megabill-deadline-00434824\" target=\"_blank\"><u>told reporters<\/u><\/a> he believed it would be \u201cvery hard\u201d to get the bill passed in both chambers before July 4th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump reiterated his demand that Congress pass Republicans\u2019 agenda-defining megabill before July 4th, despite softening on that deadline as recently as Tuesday morning. Trump urged House Republicans in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon to quickly pass the Senate-approved version of the sweeping domestic policy bill so he can sign before the [&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-10852","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\/10852","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=10852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}