Trump celebrates 4th of July with signing of ‘big, beautiful bill’

Meeting an Independence Day goal line, President Donald Trump declared, “The Golden Age of America is upon us,” as he celebrated the signing of his legislative agenda.

Having returned from a brief trip to Iowa on Thursday to kick off the countdown to the United States’ 250th birthday celebration, the president and First Lady Melania Trump hosted the Military Family Picnic on the White House South Lawn Friday. It was there amid the Fourth of July festivities that the commander-in-chief signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law and boasted the country would soon take off like “a rocket ship.”

Flanked by  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), as well as other members of Congress and his cabinet, Trump signed the bill at the event and was then presented with the gavel used during its passage.

THE ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE LAW OF THE LAND! pic.twitter.com/mOpYN0tiZ0

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 4, 2025

“As we approach the 250th anniversary of America’s founding exactly one year from now, we are creating an economy that delivers wealth for the middle class, a border that is sovereign and secure, and a military that is unmatched, unequaled anywhere in the world,” he explained with a nod to the flyover of the White House that included B-2 bombers and F-35s marking the significance of the strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The pilots who’d conducted Operation Midnight Hammer had been invited to the event by the president.

“The Golden Age of America is upon us. We are in the Golden Age. It’s going to be a period of time the likes of which I don’t think this country has ever experienced before,” Trump said.

.@POTUS: “As we approach the 250th anniversary of America’s founding exactly one year from now, we are creating an economy that delivers wealth for the middle class, a border that is sovereign and secure, and a military that is unmatched, unequaled anywhere in the world.” pic.twitter.com/IF4obbmlNV

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Along with defunding Planned Parenthood for a year, allowing tax deductions on auto loan interest payments for cars made in America, providing funding for securing the border, and reforming Medicaid to require recipients to work at least 80 hours per month, the bill rescinded some of his predecessor’s green agenda initiatives.

As such, Trump remarked, “Wind. It doesn’t work, I will tell you, aside from ruining our fields and our valleys, killing all the birds, being very weak and very expensive — all made in China — you know, I noticed something. With all of the windmills that China sends us, where we waste our money because it’s the most expensive energy … I have never seen a wind farm in China.”

.@POTUS: “This bill will fuel MASSIVE economic growth and lift up the hardworking citizens who make this country run.”

“Our country is going to be a Rocketship, economically.” pic.twitter.com/H3LI87La9l

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 4, 2025

“We have officially made the Trump tax cuts permanent. That’s the largest tax cut in the history of our country,” the president went on as the cuts from his first administration had been set to expire at the end of the year. “We’re setting all sorts of economic records right now, and that’s before this kicks in. After this kicks in, our country is going to be a rocket ship, economically.”

Calling out a number of his major campaign promises, he made sure to note, “We’ve delivered no tax on tips, not tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. And that’s why — when you hear things like that — this is … it’s the biggest bill of its kind ever done by far.”

“It makes the child tax credit permanent for 40 million American families,” asserted the president.

MOMENTS FROM BECOMING LAW…

— NO TAX ON TIPS
— NO TAX ON OVERTIME
— NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY
— TAX DEDUCTION ON AUTO LOAN INTEREST FOR VEHICLES MADE IN AMERICA pic.twitter.com/Y3EOhOjrg8

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 4, 2025

While debate in both chambers had seen Republican members squabbling over key provisions, ultimately resulting in Vice President J.D. Vance stepping in to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, the Democratic Party had fallen in line with opposition to ensuring American taxpayers got to keep more of their own money.

In fact, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who’d previously gone on record calling the filibuster a “Jim Crow era relic … used to stop progress for decades,” saw fit to follow in the footsteps of New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (D) and offered his own marathon speech opposing the legislation.

“Not a single thing in Donald Trump’s one big, ugly bill will meaningfully make life more affordable for everyday Americans, and that’s just one of several reasons why House Democrats are hell no on this legislation,” said Jeffries. “We were a hell no last week, a hell no this week, a hell no yesterday, a hell no today. And will continue to be a hell no on this effort to hurt the American people.”

Of course, some of those same Democrats appeared to have been caught snoozing during the minority leader’s speech and Vance saw fit to share a playful prod at Jeffries by posting to X, “GOP Congressman just texted me: ‘I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I’m a firm yes.’”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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