Make-or-break vote on tax bill

US lawmakers teed up a final vote on Donald Trump’s marquee tax and spending bill yesterday after a bruising day of Republican infighting that threatened to derail the centrepiece of the president's domestic agenda.

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Trump is seeking a green light in the House of Representatives for his Senate-passed “One Big Beautiful Bill” ~ but faces opposition on all sides of his fractious party over provisions set to balloon the national debt while launching a historic assault on the social safety net.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson spent much of this week struggling to corral his rank-and-file members as the package scraped through a series of “test” votes that laid bare deep divisions in the party.

It was set for a final vote to advance it from Congress to Trump's desk around 8.30am after passing its last procedural hurdle in the early hours.

“We feel very good about where we are and we're moving forward,” an upbeat Johnson told reporters at the Capitol.

“So we're going to deliver the Big, Beautiful Bill - the president’s America First? agenda - and were going to do right by the American people”