B2 bombers roars over White House; Donald Trump and Melania Trump celebrate U.S. Independence Day

U.S. President Donald Trump signed his flagship taxation and spending Bill into law connected Friday (July 4,2025), capping a grandiose White House Independence Day ceremonial featuring a stealth bomber fly-by.

Mr. Trump besides played down disapproval by Democrats that the unpopular authorities volition slash societal payment programs, saying: “You won’t adjacent announcement it.”

With First Lady Melania Trump astatine his side, Mr. Trump watched from the White House balcony arsenic 2 B-2 bombers — the aforesaid benignant that precocious struck Iranian atomic sites — roared overhead, accompanied by F-35 and F-22 combatant jets.

The 79-year-old’s triumph thigh came a time aft Republicans fell into enactment and passed the sprawling mega-Bill, allowing him to motion it arsenic helium had hoped connected the Fourth of July holiday.

The Bill honours galore of Mr. Trump’s run promises: extending taxation cuts from his archetypal term, boosting subject spending and providing monolithic caller backing for Mr. Trump’s migrant deportation drive.

‘Never been thing similar it’

The legislation’s signing caps 2 weeks of important wins for Mr. Trump that person seen him tighten his grip connected powerfulness and his enactment alike.

The successes see the caller Iran-Israel ceasefire that was sealed aft what helium called the “flawless” U.S. aerial strikes connected Iran.

Pilots who carried retired the bombing connected Iran were among those invited to the White House event, which included a picnic for subject families connected the South Lawn.

“The past 2 weeks, determination has ne'er been thing similar it, arsenic acold arsenic winning,” said Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump had nevertheless forced done the taxation Bill contempt heavy misgivings successful the Republican Party that it would balloon the nationalist debt.

The authorities is expected to heap an other $3.4 trillion implicit a decennary onto the U.S. deficit.

It squeezed past a last ballot successful the House of Representatives 218-214 aft Republican Speaker Mike Johnson worked done the nighttime to corral the last radical of dissenters.

Mr. Trump thanked Johnson astatine the White House event, saying: “What a job.”

‘Horrible day’

Mr. Trump’s billionaire erstwhile state Elon Musk was among the astir vocal critics, and helium has pledged to acceptable up a caller governmental enactment to reason Republicans who backed the Bill.

Democrats and galore voters person meantime expressed concerns that the “big beauteous Bill” volition gut wellness and payment support.

The Bill volition unit done the largest cuts to the Medicaid wellness security programme for low-income Americans since its 1960s launch, portion besides shrinking national nutrient assistance programs.

Up to 17 cardinal radical could suffer their security sum nether the Bill, according to immoderate estimates. Scores of agrarian hospitals are expected to adjacent arsenic a result.

But Mr. Trump played down the concerns.

“They’ve developed a modular line, and we can’t fto them get distant with it. ‘Oh, it’s dangerous. Oh, everybody’s going to die.’ It’s really conscionable the opposite,” said Mr. Trump.

Democrats anticipation nationalist absorption to the Bill volition assistance them flip the House successful the 2026 midterm election, pointing to information showing that it represents a immense redistribution of wealthiness from the poorest Americans to the richest.

People attending the Fourth of July parade successful Washington connected Saturday had mixed feelings.

“Yesterday was a horrible day, contiguous is the champion portion of America,” said Elisabeth Hubir, 70.