Authors: Jess Bidgood & Catie Edmondson
Translated by: TechFlow
President Trump's signature legislation may make progress this weekend.
Image source: Kenny Holston/The New York Times
Trump calls his signature domestic legislation "One Big Beautiful Bill", but its path forward has not been smooth.
[The rest of the translation continues in the same manner, maintaining the original structure and translating all text except for the content within XML tags.]Washington operates similarly, but on a much larger scale. For a long time, Republicans and Democrats have reached a consensus on a set of assumptions about the future national budget - assuming no additional policy changes. They use this as a baseline to determine whether certain policies, such as tax cuts, are affordable.
Senate Republicans want to change the way Washington makes these future assumptions. For decades, temporary tax cuts have been viewed as a special expenditure; it is usually assumed that these tax cuts will expire in the long term, taxes will return to their original levels, and government revenue will increase accordingly.
However, Senate Republicans believe this assumption is incorrect. They argue for incorporating the temporary tax cuts passed in 2017 into long-term budget assumptions. If these tax cuts are redefined in this way, continuing these policies (as they hope to do through this bill) would not appear to be new expenditures.
It's like originally thinking renting a luxury car is a short-term special expense, but when the lease expires, instead of choosing a cheaper option, you tell yourself: I've always planned to pay higher car fees, so I can definitely rent another luxury car.
Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times
Arrival and Departure
Haiyun Jiang, the latest photography journalist from The New York Times, is passionate about photos that can tell stories of power. This week, while accompanying President Trump to The Hague, she captured such a moment.
On Tuesday evening, Haiyun waited with other photographers for Trump to arrive at Huis ten Bosch, a Dutch royal palace where he would meet the Dutch King and Queen and spend the night. Such ceremonial, grand, and royal-related occasions are precisely what Trump is fond of.
When Trump arrived in an armored luxury car, Haiyun saw an excellent opportunity to showcase presidential authority.
"I tried to frame his figure through the car window because I knew the Secret Service agents would open the door for him, and I felt this was a way of capturing power," Haiyun told me.
Later, she seized another opportunity. When Haiyun and other photographers were quickly ushered away from the scene, she noticed the palace guards had begun removing the decorations symbolizing power.
Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times
