U.S. Rep. Chip Roy on Thursday backed off his opposition to President Donald Trump's massive new tax and spending package, allowing the measure to narrowly pass the chamber despite ongoing objections from other Republicans that it would increase U.

President Donald Trump urged the Senate to act on his massive tax and immigration package “as soon as possible” following narrow passage in the House early Thursday. Changes are expected in the Senate.

Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a major win for President Donald Trump early on Thursday morning, uniting a deeply divided House GOP to pass a bill that many of them were still pushing fiercely to change.

Nonpartisan research groups studying the proposal have estimated that it would add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal debt—currently at an all-time high of $36.8 trillion—over the next decade. Despite those projections,