Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-SD) budding relationship with President Donald Trump survived its biggest stress test on Tuesday as Republicans passed their marquee tax bill through the Senate. In an interview with the Washington Examiner,

President Trump brought pomp and circumstance to his signing of the "big, beautiful bill" on Friday, with an Independence Day ceremony at the White House that included a B-2 bomber flyover. Some Republican members of Congress who voted to pass the legislation attended the event in which the president put his signature on his sweeping domestic policy bill.