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Press Secretary Leavitt's Five Reasons to Pass the One Big Beautiful Bill

June 21, 2025 · The White House · 0:01:17

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What happened

The White House posted a short video on June 21, 2025 in which Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gave five reasons Congress needs to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill, according to the White House recording. First, she said the bill invests in a more powerful and modern U.S. military, including the Golden Dome. Second, she said it requires able-bodied Americans to work or seek work to receive Medicaid benefits. Third, she said it will prevent taxpayer benefits from going to 1.4 million illegal immigrants who are currently receiving benefits, using the figure stated in the video and the White House description.

Fourth, Leavitt said the bill ends taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries for minors and adults. Fifth, she called it one of the most pro-worker, pro-family, pro-security pieces of legislation in the nation’s history, as she characterized the measure. She argued that voting for the bill affords Americans the freedom to pursue their version of the American dream, while voting against it is, in her framing, a vote for the largest tax hike in the nation’s history, a vote against increased border security, and a vote against the will of the people who returned President Trump to office. She closed by urging Congress to pass the bill.

Why it matters

Leavitt’s five-point list is the White House’s own index of the bill’s selling points, useful as the baseline for which provisions the administration chose to lead with — military, Medicaid work rules and immigration benefits — while the bill was still moving.

Sources: The White House, “White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: 5 Reasons to PASS Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill”, 2025-06-21 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-06-21). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.