Also tonight, a July 4th victory for President Trump.

The House narrowly passed Republicans' massive tax cuts and spending package, known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill" in a 218 to 214 vote.

Only two House Republicans voted against it.

They were not from New Jersey.

And it now heads to President Trump's desk for his signature.

The $3.4 trillion package extends the President's signature 2017 tax cuts, boosts border and homeland security funding, slashes safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps, increases the state and local tax deduction, known as SALT, and raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion.

The final vote was delayed multiple times.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke against the bill for a record-breaking 8 hours 44 minutes.

But it was no match for President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, who spent most of the last 24 hours meeting with and speaking to GOP holdouts to get them to change their votes.

It was an effort that ended up paying off.

Senior political correspondent David Cruz has the details, plus how the bill affects New Jersey.

Let's understand who is doing you in.

People on the other side of the aisle.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was left to play the role of last man standing, aware that he was just one congressman employing a filibuster tactic, trying to hold back a majority that itself went through its own fight to bring the President's bill to the House floor.

All we need are four Republicans to join us, to show John McCain levels of courage.

The controversial bill, which represents the administration's major domestic initiative, cuts a trillion dollars from the federal Medicaid program.

Over 360,000 in New Jersey are expected to lose coverage as a result.

Almost $300 billion in cuts to SNAP, that's food stamps, impacting 800,000 state residents enrolled in that program, while slashing over $4 trillion in taxes for mostly the well-to-do, a dichotomy that had Democrats howling in opposition and fearing for what's next, especially but not exclusively for those on the margins.

When people lose health care coverage, that means they're not going and getting preventative care.

It means they're not going to see their doctor.

So more often than not, they will end up at hospitals and emergency rooms.

So you're going to see the cost shift to hospitals, and especially in a place like Hudson County, you have a lot of these safety net hospitals.

So it's going to be harder from an operational perspective for them because you're going to have more uninsured people coming in for their health care.

So that means everyone that's on private insurance is going to see their premiums go up.

It means that the providers are going to have to charge more to make up for the less reimbursements that they're getting through Medicaid.

Cuts to food assistance programs and tightening restrictions to qualify for programs like it will also disproportionately hit poor and working-class people.

Laura Waddell is the director of the Health Care Program for New Jersey Citizen Action.

These people just make $1,300 to $1,800 per month, and they're targeting these folks with work requirements, requiring them to pay co-pays for doctor's visits.

There's nothing fiscally responsible about creating $5 trillion in debt and the deficit only to allow for $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.

On ground level, that means a looming fiscal crisis for people like Teresa Luoni, a mother of a child with autism, and her daughter, Vasco Ridge, a mom to two autistic children.

I mean, clearly, it looks like we're heading to living in a country where money matters the most.

The citizens don't matter.

What the people want doesn't matter, because this bill is incredibly unpopular with the citizens.

We're calling, having protests outside of our representatives' offices, and then we're being told they'll just have to get over it.

Until victory is won.

I yield back.

Jeffries yielded after almost nine hours of filibuster, giving Speaker Mike Johnson a chance to mock the minority leader and trash Democrats' arguments.

You know, Ronald Reagan said one time that no speech should be longer than 20 minutes, and unlike the Democrat leader, I'm going to honor my colleague's time and be a little more brief than that.

I just want to say something that many of us learned when we were children, we were taught, you know, it takes a lot longer to build a lie than to tell the simple truth.

A famous author once wrote that the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

For Democrats, the taste of this big, beautiful bill is hard to stomach.

For Republicans and the president they follow, the sweetness of the victory left them very satisfied today.

I'm David Cruz, NJ Spotlight News.

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