House Republicans pass Trump’s big bill of tax breaks after all-night session

US President Donald Trump and speaker of the House Mike Johnson speak to reporters after departing a House Republican conference meeting at the US Capitol (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with speaker Mike Johnson defying the sceptics and unifying his ranks to muscle US President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval.

With last-minute concessions and stark warnings from Mr Trump, the Republican holdouts largely dropped their opposition to salvage the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that is central to the Republican agenda.