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In addition to giving up much of their July 4 recess, Senate Republicans needed Vice President J.D. Vance’s tiebreaking vote to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. To get it through the chamber they had to tweak the legislation to make it more palatable for one of their party’s holdouts. Getting it to President Donald Trump’s desk didn’t have to be so hard.
Charles Hilu is a reporter for The Dispatch based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the company in 2024, he was the Collegiate Network Fellow at the Washington Free Beacon and interned at both National Review and the Washington Examiner. When he is not chasing down lawmakers on Capitol Hill, he is probably listening to show tunes or following the premier sports teams of the University of Michigan and city of Detroit.
