“Republicans on Thursday notched the first major legislative victory of President Donald Trump’s second term, a mammoth tax and immigration agenda the GOP hopes will reshape the U.S. economy and unwind many of the Biden administration’s accomplishments,” the Washington Post reports.

“The House, in a 218 to 214 vote, passed Trump’s so-called ‘One Big Beautiful Bill,’ a $3.4 trillion measure to extend tax cuts from Trump’s first term and implement new campaign promises — such as eliminating income taxes on tips and overtime wages — while spending hundreds of billions of dollars on immigration enforcement and defense.”

“It raises the country’s borrowing cap by $5 trillion, staving off a debt default that the Treasury was weeks away from breaching.”

“The overwhelming consensus on Capitol Hill was that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) would only delay President Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ by about an hour. As noon approached on Thursday, that expectation was shattered,” Axios reports.

“For months, the Democratic base has been demanding their party’s leaders ‘fight harder’ and use every tool at their disposal to stymie the GOP agenda. In the eyes of many lawmakers, this is Jeffries delivering.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the DC Examiner that Jeffries “looks like a bumbling fool.”

Jeffries broke the record for the longest floor speech in the chamber’s history. He spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes.

“Tax breaks for billionaires — permanent. Tax breaks for everybody else expire.”

— Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), quoted by Punchbowl News, on the Republican budget reconciliation bill.

“Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader, passed the four-hour mark on Thursday morning in a marathon speech in the House opposing Republicans’ signature legislation carrying out President Trump’s domestic agenda,” the New York Times reports.

“Beginning his remarks before dawn, Mr. Jeffries said that he was ‘planning to take my sweet time’ with his speech.”

“It was not a filibuster, the Senate tactic that allows a member to speechify for unlimited time, delaying action indefinitely. But Mr. Jeffries was making use of his prerogative as a leader to stretch his allotted 60 seconds of speaking time for far longer, in a House tradition known as a ‘magic minute.’ In doing so, he was attempting to seize a pivotal moment for Democrats — who have toiled to find a cohesive strategy, message and messenger for countering Mr. Trump — to make a forceful case against the president and his agenda.”

Punchbowl News: “If Hakeem Jeffries speaks until 1:26 p.m., he will break the record for the longest floor speech. That record is held by Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy spoke for eight hours and 32 minutes.”