Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin today in Washington DC.
And the fate of President Trump's flagship domestic legislation,
the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,
this giant compendium of tax and spending measures was approved by the US Senate on Tuesday after more than 24 hours of debate and wrangling.
but only by the narrowest of margins.
Three Republican senators opposed the bill,
and so it fell to Vice President JD Vance to cast the tie-breaking vote.
On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 50, the Senate being evenly divided,
the Vice President votes in the affirmative, the bill as amended is passed.
Well, with Senate approval,
the legislation now goes back to the House of Representatives for a vote there,
possibly as early as today.
Although, once again, many Republicans are also unhappy about the bill.
They only have a very slim majority in the House.
Well, the BBC's Washington correspondent is Anthony Zirka.
Well, it has already passed one vote in the House, so why is it back now?
Well, yeah, it started in the House.