A key House committee has approved a sweeping spending bill, sending it to the full House for consideration after more than 24 straight hours of hearings.

The House is gearing up for a long overnight session as Republicans plow ahead with the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" after the House Rules Committee advanced a revised version of the megabill supporting President Donald Trump's second-term agenda.

The House budget bill that narrowly passed in an early morning vote on Thursday would effectively put the brakes on a clean energy production boom in the United States spurred by tax credits enacted in 2022.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held a news conference on Thursday covering topics including the passage of President Trump's "big, beautiful" tax bill, allegations of a Joe Biden health cover-up,

The “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, a budget-reconciliation bill designed to fund Donald Trump’s priorities, has finally made it through the House of Representatives’ various committees. At publication time the full-chamber debate had just finished.

America faced a once-in-a-century health crisis that crashed the economy and threatened the lives of millions. Republicans and Democrats came together to pass a forceful, and expensive, emergency response that helped prevent permanent scarring to the economy.