Live updates and the latest news as the House approaches a final passage vote on the Trump-backed "big, beautiful bill" after a group of Republican holdouts changed their votes to advance the measure.

The sweeping tax-and-spending package now heads to President Donald Trump's desk a day before his July 4 deadline.

House Republicans are ready to vote on President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill early Thursday, up all night as GOP leaders and the president himself worked to persuade skeptical holdouts to drop their opposition by his Fourth of July deadline.