Race against time: How Congress barely made July 4 deadline on ‘big, beautiful bill’

Football and basketball coaches are experts in clock management.So are lawmakers.Coaches are adept at either burning or saving just enough time on the clock to execute a play – or prevent the other team from doing so.Congressional clock management is very different.TRUMP $3.3T MEGABILL SETS HOUSE RECORD FOR LONGEST VOTE IN HISTORYWhatever lawmakers say they will do – it will always take them a profoundly longer period of time in which to do it.That’s why the temporal politics of passing President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" overwhelmed everyone who works on Capitol Hill over the past few weeks.That ranges from the lawmakers themselves to the aides, journalists, Capitol custodians and U.S. Capitol Police officers.To wit:Congressional Republicans have churned through variations of frameworks and iterations of the big, beautiful bill since February. But things finally got serious when the House adopted its formal version of the package on May 22, beating… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.