In mid-2025, President Donald J. Trump introduced what he triumphantly called a “big, beautiful bill”—a sweeping package of fiscal measures intended to stimulate the US economy amid rising inflationary pressures, sluggish post-pandemic growth, and international turbulence, including the ongoing war in Ukraine. Promoted as a bold solution to “bring back American greatness,” the bill includes infrastructure spending, tax rebates, industrial subsidies, and targeted aid to rural and deindustrialised