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The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender athletes from its women’s sports teams, settling a federal civil rights case stemming from the furor around swimmer Lia Thomas, the US government said Tuesday.The US Department of Education said in a statement that UPenn had entered into a resolution agreement vowing to comply with Title IX, the federal law which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any educational program.It follows an investigation by the department’s Office for Civil Rights which found the university had violated Title IX by allowing transgender swimmer Thomas to compete in women’s competitions in 2021-2022.US President Donald Trump, who campaigned on the issue of trans athletes, has worked to prohibit them from competing in girls and women’s sports since returning to office.Trump issued an executive order in February aimed at banning transgender athletes, allowing federal agencies to halt funding to any institution that does not consider birth-assigned genders in determining sex.US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement on Tuesday the resolution of the UPenn case marked a “great victory for women and girls … across our nation.””The Department commends UPenn for rectifying its past harms against women and girls, and we will continue to fight relentlessly to restore Title IX’s proper application and enforce it to the fullest extent of the law.”Under the terms of the settlement, UPenn will restore all individual swimming records and titles to female athletes affected by Thomas’s participation.The university will also send a “personalized letter of apology” to each swimmer impacted by the case.The college will also be required to issue a public statement specifying it will “not allow males to compete in female athletic programs” or use Penn Athletics facilities for women, such as locker rooms.Thomas became a lightning rod around the debate of transgender athletes in women’s sport after competing in female collegiate competitions in 2022. She had earlier swam on UPenn’s men’s team while undergoing hormone replacement therapy. Her participation in women’s events sparked widespread outrage, with critics and some fellow swimmers saying she should not have been allowed to compete due to an unfair physiological advantage. Her supporters argued she should be allowed to compete as a woman.One of Thomas’s competitors, Riley Gaines, welcomed Tuesday’s announcement.Gaines has been a long-time critic of Thomas’s participation in women’s collegiate swimming, and tied for fifth place with her in the 200-yard freestyle at a national collegiate meeting in 2022.”It is my hope that today demonstrates to educational institutions that they will no longer be allowed to trample upon women’s civil rights, and renews hope in every female athlete that their country’s highest leadership will not relent until they have the dignity, safety, and fairness they deserve,” Gaines said in a statement.

Several leading automakers including Detroit giants General Motors and Ford reported increased US car sales in the second quarter on Tuesday as consumers fast-forwarded purchases ahead of US tariffs.Sales were particularly brisk early in the quarter as expectations of US President Donald Trump’s coming tariffs dominated the news. Besides the US companies, Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda and South Korean brands Kia and Hyundai all reported increased sales compared with the 2024 stretch.”They were able to capitalize on the tariff-induced fear and that drove sales, especially in the early part of the quarter,” said Garrett Nelson, equity analyst at CFRA Research.While the auto industry has been near the center of Trump’s efforts to reset global trade, consumers have yet to see significant price increases due to tariffs. That is because companies have relied on existing inventories that include vehicles imported before tariffs took effect. Prices are expected to rise more in the second half of 2025, but market demand and supply forces could constrain such hikes, analysts said.GM notched a 7.3 percent rise in vehicle deliveries to 746,588 behind a continued solid performance in pickup trucks and SUVs, as well as good sales of models geared towards customers seeking affordable vehicles.These include the Chevrolet Equinox and Chevrolet Trax, a lower-priced vehicle imported from South Korea.Ford, meanwhile, scored a 14.2 percent jump in sales to 612,095, reflecting the boon from a popular program that offered customers employee pricing on many models.Most of Ford’s leading vehicles saw higher sales, including the best-selling pickup F-series, as well as the Ford Explorer SUV. While Ford had lower sales of its all-electric F-150 Lightning Truck and the Mustang Mach-E, it reported a jump in hybrid vehicle sales.Higher sales had been expected for both companies, but the increases were slightly more than projected by analysts at Edmunds.com. At Toyota, sales jumped 7.2 percent to 666,470 autos, with double digit gains in several vehicles, including the Toyota Camry sedan and the Toyota Tacoma pickup truck.Honda, Kia and Hyundai reported quarterly sales increases of between five and 10 percent.But Nissan reported a 6.5 percent drop in quarterly sales to 221,441, while Jeep-owner Stellantis was projected by Edmunds to have a 12.8 percent drop to just over 300,000 vehicles.- Pressure from consumers -The United States imposed 25 percent tariffs on imported finished cars in early April. The Trump administration also enacted a 25 percent tariff on imported auto parts in early May, although White House officials allowed a two-year grace period and stipulated that automakers would not face duplicative tariffs due to a 25 percent levy on imported steel and aluminum.While retail car prices have not risen significantly, analysts at Cox Automotive last week pointed to a recent ebbing in dealer incentives as evidence of a somewhat tighter market.Cox Automotive Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke has projected an eight percent rise in prices due to tariffs, adding that “we don’t think consumers or fleet buyers are able and willing to accept that added cost,” he said at a briefing last week.Smoke predicted that uncertainty about the economy and whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates could lead many buyers to defer purchases.Nelson said automakers have to be “very careful” with price hikes.”Things have cooled off from where they were at the beginning of the quarter,” he said. “Everything we’re seeing suggests that consumers are still very price sensitive.”

Around two dozen YouTube channels are pumping out AI-generated videos with false claims about music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’s sex trafficking trial, racking up millions of views and profiting from misinformation, researchers say.The flood of false content threatens to distort public perception of the musician’s seven-week New York trial, where jurors were deliberating Tuesday to ascertain whether he acted as the ringleader of a criminal organization that facilitated coercive sex marathons with escorts.The sensational AI-driven channels have amassed nearly 70 million views from roughly 900 videos about Combs over the past year, according to data compiled by Indicator, a US publication investigating digital deception.The videos typically feature AI-generated thumbnails showing celebrities on the witness stand alongside images of Combs, often paired with fabricated quotes.One channel called Pak Gov Update uploaded a nearly 30-minute-long video titled “Jay-Z Breaks His Silence on Diddy Controversy,” which features a thumbnail of the American rapper.The thumbnail shows Jay-Z breaking down in tears and holding up a CD above a fabricated quote: “I WILL BE DEAD SOON.”Pak Gov Update has uploaded similar videos with fake testimonies attributed to other celebrities such as the American comedian Kevin Hart and singer-songwriter Usher. It began posting content about the closely watched trial in recent weeks. The channel previously posted Urdu content about Pakistan.”Pak Gov Update is one of 26 YouTube channels identified by Indicator that have used a mix of false claims and AI slop to cash in on the Diddy trial,” said Craig Silverman, co-founder of Indicator.YouTube has “terminated several channels” among those highlighted by Indicator for “violating our terms of service and policies covering spam,” the site’s spokesman Jack Malon told AFP in a statement.AI slop refers to often low-quality visual content –- generated using cheap and widely available artificial intelligence tools –- that increasingly appears to be flooding social media sites, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.Many content creators on YouTube and TikTok offer paid courses on how to monetize viral AI slop on tech platforms, many of which have reduced their reliance on human fact-checkers and scaled back content moderation.Combs, 55, faces life in prison if convicted on five federal charges that include racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation for purposes of prostitution.Conspiracy theories and falsehoods surrounding his trial have flooded social media sites in recent weeks, threatening to shroud the facts and undermine real witnesses, experts say.A song titled “I Lost Myself at a Diddy Party” and falsely attributed to Justin Bieber recently garnered millions of views across social media platforms, sparking a wave of conspiracy theories about the relationship between the two celebrities.An audio clip of the song, which features lyrics about Bieber losing his innocence after attending a Combs party, was likely created using an AI tool, according to the disinformation watchdog NewsGuard.Also gaining traction online was a manipulated image of Combs and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sitting next to US President Donald Trump on a couch with young women.

US President Donald Trump toured a new Florida migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday, boasting about the harsh conditions and joking that the reptilian predators will serve as guards.The $450 million camp has been built on a disused airfield deep in the Florida Everglades and is surrounded by swamps that are home to creatures including alligators and poisonous snakes.”Very soon this facility will house some of the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet,” Trump told reporters.”We’re surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland and the only way out is really deportation.”The steaming hot, mosquito-infested site is a symbol of the Republican administration’s determination to look tough as it pursues its policy of mass deportations of undocumented migrants.The name “Alligator Alcatraz” is a reference to Alcatraz Island, the former prison in San Francisco, that Trump recently said he wanted to reopen.- ‘Cops in the form of alligators’ -Protesters against “Alligator Alcatraz” held the latest in a series of demonstrations outside the site as Trump visited on Tuesday, but the Republican embraced the controversy.”A lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators — you don’t have to pay them so much,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t want to run through the Everglades for long. It will keep people where they’re supposed to be.”Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who greeted Trump on the tarmac, said “we want to cut through bureaucracy… to get the removal of these illegals done.”The 79-year-old Trump admiringly looked at bunk beds in cages made of metal fencing at the facility, which is built to house 1,000 people, but could later be expanded to house 5,000.When asked earlier in the day if the idea behind the detention center was that people who escaped from it would get eaten by alligators or snakes, Trump answered “I guess that’s the concept.” Making a zigzagging motion with his hand, he quipped to reporters at the White House: “We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator, okay?”If they escape prison, how to run away. Don’t run in a straight line. Run like this. And you know what? Your chances go up about one percent.”But after the quips, Trump later embarked on one of his dark diatribes about immigration, saying that he eventually wanted to start deporting criminals who had been naturalized as Americans.”It’s controversial but I couldn’t care less,” he said. He described an influx of undocumented migrants under Democratic predecessor Joe Biden as “disgusting” and falsely conflated most migrants with “sadistic” criminal gangs.- Environmental concerns -“Alligator Alcatraz” is the latest in a series of measures designed to portray the Trump administration as tough on migration.It has already sent some undocumented migrants to a mega-jail in El Salvador, and others to the former “War on Terror” prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.Environmentalists have also criticized the creation of the camp in the Everglades conservation area.The Everglades are particularly known as a major habitat for alligators, with an estimated population of around 200,000. They can reach up to 15 feet in length when fully grown.Attacks by alligators on humans are relatively rare in Florida.Across the entire state there were 453 “unprovoked bite incidents” between 1948 and 2022, 26 of which resulted in human fatalities, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.Trump meanwhile insisted his plan for the notorious original Alcatraz jail was still on track, despite California officials saying it would be impractical and expensive.”Conceptual work started six months ago, and various prison development firms are looking at doing it with us. Still a little early, but lots of promise!” Truth said on his Truth Social network.

Rising star of the American left Zohran Mamdani is now officially the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, according to official results released Tuesday.The 33-year-old self-declared democratic socialist defeated his nearest rival by a strong margin, winning 56 percent to former governor Andrew Cuomo’s 44 percent, in the third round of vote counting.Neither candidate won a majority of votes in the June 25 primary vote, prompting election officials to begin a process of eliminating lower-ranking candidates and recounting. But after Mamdani earned 43 percent outright, Cuomo — aiming for a comeback after a sex scandal — conceded defeat the night of the vote, a stunning outcome for the Democrats.Staunchly pro-Israel Cuomo led in polls for most of the race, with massive name recognition as well as support from powerful centrist figures including former president Bill Clinton.”Democrats spoke in a clear voice, delivering a mandate for an affordable city, a politics of the future, and a leader unafraid to fight back against rising authoritarianism,” Mamdani said Tuesday. Born in Uganda of South Asian parents, New York state assemblyman Mamdani would be the first Muslim mayor of the heavily Democratic city if he wins the general election in November.Polling currently shows him ahead of current Mayor Eric Adams and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa for the November vote.Adams was elected in 2021 as a Democrat but is running as an independent. Mamdani and others have accused the mayor of allowing the Trump administration to conduct immigration raids in exchange for burying federal corruption charges against Adams.Cuomo is still weighing a possible run as an independent, which could further complicate the race.The mayoral contest has catapulted Mamdani from an unknown to the national stage, with Democrats debating if he is too far-left or just what is needed to beat back President Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda.Asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday if he is a communist, Mamdani responded with a negative but added, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires.””Frankly, I’ve heard he’s a total nut job,” Trump said Tuesday morning. “I think the people in New York are crazy because they go this route.”

The deadly May collision of a Mexican Navy vessel with the Brooklyn Bridge resulted in over half a million dollars in damages to the sailing ship, US investigators said, without pinpointing a cause.A preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released Monday detailed the minute-by-minute movements of the Cuauhtemoc on May 17, when the training ship departed Manhattan on its way to Iceland.After moving astern away from its docking location at Pier 17, a pilot on board the vessel directed it to go forward, the report said.However, the ship began moving backwards up the East River, with its masts eventually colliding one-by-one with the Brooklyn Bridge.Numerous sailors were positioned among the Cuauhtemoc’s rigging at the time of the crash, with two killed and nineteen others injured in chaotic scenes captured by onlookers.The NTSB report said that alcohol and drug tests came back negative for the two pilots directing the Cuauhtemoc through the harbor, as well as the captain of a tugboat accompanying the ship.The investigation “of all aspects of the accident is ongoing,” the report said.”We are examining the propulsion system, operating control system, relevant crew experience and training, and operating policies and procedures,” it added.New York authorities identified no significant damage to the bridge, according to the report.

Struggle with math? A gentle jolt to the brain might help.A new study published Tuesday in PLOS Biology suggests that mild electrical stimulation can boost arithmetic performance — and offers fresh insight into the brain mechanisms behind mathematical ability, along with a potential way to optimize learning.The findings could eventually help narrow cognitive gaps and help build a more intellectually equitable society, the authors argue.”Different people have different brains, and their brains control a lot in their life,” said Roi Cohen Kadosh, a neuroscientist at the University of Surrey who led the research.”We think about the environment — if you go to the right school, if you have the right teacher — but it’s also our biology.”Cohen Kadosh and colleagues recruited 72 University of Oxford students, scanning their brains to measure connectivity between three key regions. Participants then tackled math problems that required either calculating answers or recalling memorized solutions.They found that stronger connections between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which governs executive function, and the posterior parietal cortex, involved in memory, predicted better calculation performance.When the researchers applied a painless form of brain stimulation using electrode-fitted caps — a technique known as transcranial random noise stimulation — the low performers saw their scores jump by 25–29 percent.The team believes the stimulation works by enhancing the excitability of neurons and interacting with GABA, a brain chemical that inhibits excessive activity — effectively compensating for weak neural connectivity in some participants.In fact, the stimulation helped underperformers reach or even surpass the scores of peers with naturally stronger brain wiring. But those who already performed well saw no benefit.”Some people struggle with things, and if we can help their brain to fulfill their potential, we open them a lot of opportunities that otherwise would be closed,” said Cohen Kadosh, calling it an “exciting time” for the field of brain stimulation research.Still, he flagged a key ethical concern: the risk that such technologies could become more available to those with financial means, widening — rather than closing — access gaps.He also urged the public not to try this at home. “Some people struggle with learning, and if our research proves successful beyond the lab, we could help them fulfil their ambitions and unlock opportunities that might otherwise remain out of reach.”

The US foreign aid agency formally closed down Tuesday, with President Donald Trump’s administration trumpeting the end of the “charity-based model” despite predictions that millions of lives will be lost.Founded in 1961 as John F. Kennedy sought to leverage aid to win over the developing world in the Cold War, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has now been incorporated into the State Department — after Secretary of State Marco Rubio slashed 85 percent of its programming.In a farewell to remaining staff on Monday, former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama — as well as U2 frontman Bono — saluted their work and said it was still needed.Bush pointed to PEPFAR, the massive US effort to fight HIV/AIDS that he considers one of the top achievements of his 2001-2009 Republican presidency.”This program shows a fundamental question facing our country — is it in our nation’s interest that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is,” Bush said in a video message seen by AFP.Obama, who like Bush has been sparing in openly criticizing Trump, said that ending USAID was “inexplicable” and “will go down as a colossal mistake.””Gutting USAID is a travesty and it is a tragedy because it’s some of the most important work happening anywhere in the world,” the Democrat said.A study published in the medical journal The Lancet predicted that more than 14 million people would die, a third of them small children, by 2030 due to the foreign aid cuts.- ‘Little to show’ -Rubio painted a drastically different picture of USAID, which was an early target of a sweeping government cost-cutting drive led for Trump by billionaire Elon Musk.Rubio said that USAID’s “charity-based model” fueled “addiction” by developing nations’ leaders and that trade was more effective.”Beyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War,” Rubio wrote in an essay.He also complained that many recipients of US aid do not vote with the United States at the United Nations and that rival China often enjoys higher favorability among the public.A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that The Lancet study relied on “incorrect assumptions” and said the United States will continue aid but in a “more efficient” way.He said that PEPFAR will remain, with a priority on stopping HIV transmission from mothers to children.But he acknowledged the United States was no longer funding PrEP medication, which significantly reduces the rate of HIV transmission and has been encouraged by high-risk communities.”No one is saying that gay men in Africa shouldn’t be on PrEP. That’s wonderful. It doesn’t mean that the United States has to pay for every single thing,” the official said.He said the Trump administration was looking at “new and innovative solutions” and pointed to food deliveries in war-battered Gaza staffed by US military contractors and surrounded by Israeli troops.Witnesses, the United Nations and local Gaza officials have reported that Israeli troops have repeatedly opened fire and killed Palestinians waiting for aid — although the US-backed initiative, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, denies any deadly incidents.- ‘No line of defense’ -Bob Kitchen, the vice president for emergencies at the International Rescue Committee, said that the 14 million death prediction was consistent with what the humanitarian group was seeing.Among the group’s programming that was funded through USAID, he said that nearly 400,000 refugees who fled the war in Sudan have now been deprived of acute aid and that more than 500,000 Afghans, mostly women and girls, have been cut off from education and healthcare.European Union nations and Britain, rather than filling the gap, have also stepped back as they ramp up defense spending with encouragement from Trump.Kitchen warned that cuts will not only worsen frontline emergencies but weaken more stable countries such as Ethiopia and Kenya, which will have no back-up if rains fail again.Kitchen said that, beyond moral considerations, the cuts will aggravate migration, a top consideration for Trump.”It’s self-interest. If insecurity spreads, outbreaks spread, there’s no line of defense anymore.”

Donald Trump and Elon Musk reignited their bitter feud Tuesday, with the US president threatening to deport the tech tycoon and strip federal funds from his businesses for criticizing Trump’s flagship spending bill.The world’s richest person was Trump’s biggest political donor in the 2024 election, and became his inseparable ally during his first months back in the White House as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).But the Space X and Tesla boss is now threatening to turn his riches against Trump, mulling a rival political party to challenge Republican lawmakers who vote for the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”Trump, 79, reacted vengefully on Tuesday as he headed to the opening of a new migrant detention center in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.””We’ll have to take a look,” he told reporters when asked if he would consider deporting Musk, who has held US citizenship since 2002.Trump also signaled that he could take aim at the huge contracts and subsidies that Musk’s Space X rocket and Starlink satellite internet businesses receive from the US government.”We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon,” Trump said.Trump added later in Florida: “I don’t think he should be playing that game with me.”- ‘Head back home’ -In reply to a post on his X social network featuring Trump’s deportation comments, Musk said on Tuesday: “So tempting to escalate this. So, so tempting. But I will refrain for now.”Shares of Tesla sank around five percent Tuesday after Trump’s threats.Trump had made similar comments on Monday, saying Musk was attacking the bill because he was annoyed that it had dropped measures to support the electric vehicles (EV) industry.”Without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,” Trump said on his Truth Social network.The tycoon and the president shared a brief but intense bromance after Trump’s return to power in January.Wearing MAGA baseball hats, Musk was an almost constant presence at Trump’s side. Trump returned the favor by promoting Tesla electric vehicles when protesters targeted them for Musk’s cost-cutting drive at DOGE.But they had a huge public blow-up in May as Musk criticized the spending bill and then left the government.- ‘Don’t bankrupt America’ -Musk had kept a low profile in recent weeks but returned to the fray as the bill began its difficult path through Congress.He has since posted a steady stream of posts against the bill on the X social network that he owns.The billionaire’s criticisms center on claims that the bill would increase the US deficit. He also accuses Republicans of abandoning efforts to place the United States at the front of the EV and clean energy revolution.”All I’m asking is that we don’t bankrupt America,” he said on social media Tuesday, accusing Republicans of supporting “debt slavery.”More worrying perhaps for Trump is the way that Musk is seeking to target vulnerable Republican lawmakers ahead of the 2026 US midterm elections.Musk has said he will set up his own political movement called the “America Party” if Trump’s bill passes.And he has pledged to fund challengers against lawmakers who campaigned on reduced federal spending only to vote for the bill.”VOX POPULI VOX DEI 80% voted for a new party,” he said after launching a poll on the idea on X.

The Republican-led US Senate approved President Donald Trump’s mammoth domestic policy bill Tuesday by the narrowest of margins, despite misgivings over delivering deep welfare cuts and another $3 trillion in national debt.Republican leaders had struggled to corral support during a record 24-hour “vote-a-rama” amendment session on the Senate floor, as Democrats offered dozens of challenges to the most divisive aspects of the package.But Senate Majority Leader John Thune was able to turn around wavering moderates to deliver a 50-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie.The sprawling text now heads to the House of Representatives, where it faces unified Democratic opposition and multiple Republicans balking at the budget-busting costs, as well as slashed health care and food aid programs for poor Americans.Trump’s bill proposes a $4.5 trillion extension of his first term tax cuts, contentiously offset with $1.2 trillion in savings mainly targeting the Medicaid health insurance program, as well as federal food aid.The health care cuts could see an estimated 12 million low-income and disabled Americans lose coverage.The package also rolls back billions of dollars in green energy tax credits while providing a $350 billion infusion for border security and Trump’s mass migrant deportation program.The president made clear that the goal remains to get the bill through the House in the coming days and sign it into law by Friday’s July 4 Independence Day holiday.”It’s going to get in, it’s going to pass, and we’re going to be very happy,” Trump told reporters ahead of the vote.- ‘Utter shame’ -Polls show the bill is among the most unpopular ever considered, and Democrats hope to leverage public anger ahead of the 2026 midterm elections when they aim to retake the House.Backed by extensive independent analysis, they say the bill’s tax cuts would disproportionately benefit the wealthy at the expense of social safety net programs for the poorest Americans.”Today, Senate Republicans betrayed the American people and covered the Senate in utter shame,” said Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate Democratic minority.”In one fell swoop Republicans passed the biggest tax break for billionaires ever seen — paid for by ripping away health care for millions of people and taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids.”A handful of senators in the Republican majority had threatened to upset the apple cart, voicing concerns that the bill would add more than $3.3 trillion to the nation’s already yawning budget deficits over a decade.The most high-profile opposition came in the shape of tech billionaire and estranged former Trump aide Elon Musk, who balked at the bill’s debt implications and stripping of clean energy subsidies.A furious Trump on Tuesday said he would consider deporting Musk — whose electric car company Tesla gives him extensive interests in green energy — and ending federal funds for his companies.”Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa,” Trump posted on social media.- Focus on House -Although the House of Representatives has already passed its own version of the bill, it will have to come back to the lower chamber for a final rubber stamp before it reaches Trump’s desk.House Republicans were watching anxiously from the sidelines to see if their Senate colleagues would adopt changes that would be hard for Speaker Mike Johnson to sell to his lawmakers.Fiscal hawks in the lower chamber are furious at what they say is $651 billion of extra deficit spending in the Senate’s tweaks.A House vote could come as early as Wednesday but even with full attendance, House Republicans can only afford to lose three votes.”The House will work quickly to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill that enacts President Trump’s full America First agenda by the Fourth of July,” Johnson said after the vote.”The American people gave us a clear mandate, and after four years of Democrat failure, we intend to deliver without delay.”