House passes Trump-backed bill, tightening his grip on the Republican Party despite backlash over debt and cuts to Medicaid.

US President Donald Trump on Friday signed a sprawling tax and spending bill into law, after it passed through Congress despite deep misgivings among Republicans and Democrats. Trump's success in passing the bill - that critics say will balloon national debt and gut welfare support - shows that the President "is able to control his Republican party",

On a late February evening, President Trump sealed the deal for the first vote on his “one big, beautiful bill” with a conversation that brought one House Republican to tears. And into the wee