JUST IN: House Is Ready To Vote On Big Beautiful Bill Tonight, Trump Announces

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday evening, along party lines, to advance the Trump-backed Big Beautiful Bill to a final floor vote after a marathon day of negotiations to convince final holdouts.

Shortly after 9 p.m. Eastern Time, the chamber voted to advance the bill by a final vote of 220-212. While all Republicans voted to advance the amendment, not all are expected to vote for its final passage, as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has positioned himself as a definitive “no.”

The House will officially start voting on the rules package at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time, NBC News reported. In a social media post, President Donald Trump expressed confidence that the bill will pass and confirmed that the vote will be taking place tonight. “We had GREAT conversations all day, and the Republican House Majority is UNITED, for the Good of our Country, delivering the Biggest Tax Cuts in History and MASSIVE Growth,” the president posted on Truth Social.

“Let’s go Republicans, and everyone else – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

The president, along with Vice President Vance and other senior administration officials, met with a number of key holdouts from varying factions within the Republican conference at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.

Several members of the House Freedom Caucus had expressed concerns over lack of spending cuts in the Senate-amended version of the bill, though several caucus members have expressed optimism after meeting with the president.

“So I’m trying to go through the bill and understand it. For example, you just went through that list of facts. I stand behind every single one of those. I will note that I’ve now gotten a little bit more information on some of the Medicaid stuff that I feel like it’s a little bit better than I originally anticipated,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told Fox News after the White House meeting.

“But I still have concerns. So  that’s what we’re doing right now. We’re meeting with some folks in the White House here in the Capitol, trying to understand how we think some of this will get implemented.”

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), another House conservative who has long expressed concern over deficit spending, described the meeting as “wonderful” and “informative.”

A number of moderate Republicans who represent districts Trump lost in 2024, including Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and David Valadao (R-CA), as well as swing district members like freshman Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA), have also expressed concern over the bill due to medicaid cuts. They too joined the aforementioned Freedom Caucus members for the White House meeting, alongside a handful of additional potential holdouts.

Rep. Valadao last week stated that he could not vote for the bill in its current form given Senate cuts to Medicaid. It is unclear if Valadao, who rejoined Congress in 2021 after losing re-election in 2018, was swayed during the meeting.

The Republican conference did clear one massive hurdle earlier in the day when Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), who previously voted against the House version of the bill back in May, announced that he will be voting for the amended version.

“I wish it was a little better product, but I think it’s as good as we’re going to get, not just before July 4. If we ran it longer, the real deadline is the debt limit,” Davidson told reporters. “And I think even if we ran it longer, the odds of getting a better product before that debt limit are really low.”