“This bill just gets more and more cruel,” said Richard Fiesta, executive director of the advocacy group Alliance for Retired Americans.

House Republicans were jubilant after muscling through President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and immigration package by a single vote.

Trump is doubling down on his trade war, threatening a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union and a 25% levy on Apple and other smartphone makers if they don’t move production to the US.