Two of President Donald Trump’s major tax-related campaign promises that will impact millions of American workers have made it into legislation proposed for the so-called “one big, beautiful bill,” albeit only for a period that would not last beyond his second term.

“No Tax On Tips” and “No Tax On Overtime” appear in a 389-page measure released by the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday, with provisions saying the deductions would expire at the end of 2028.

Another of Trump’s priorities, no tax on auto loan interest, made it into the legislation.

Trump had also been pushing for an end to taxes on Social Security for seniors, however Bloomberg reported that it could not be included due to the “special budget process that Congress is using to advance the tax package.”

Instead, the measure has a section that would allow middle-and low-income seniors to deduct an extra $4,000 for each taxable year.

With a post on Truth Social last week, Trump said, “We are going to do NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON SENIORS’ SOCIAL SECURITY, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, and much more. It will be the biggest Tax Cut for Middle and Working Class Americans by far, and it is time for Main Street to WIN.”

House Republicans are leading the charge in devising the bill after Congress approved a budget framework last month. The budget reconciliation process they are using will allow the Senate, with its narrow GOP majority, to bypass the three-fifths majority threshold for overcoming a filibuster.

Other significant aspects of the bill are coming together, including a plan to raise the debt limit by $4 trillion and retaining key tax cuts from 2017, but the granular details of some provisions could be changed as the legislation moves forward.

While Republicans continue to clash over certain tax breaks and spending, Democrats are focused on warning the proposal could result in millions of Americans losing their health care coverage.

In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump said Republicans need to “UNIFY” behind Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and the other GOP leaders whose panels are meeting this week to mark up their respective measures for the “one big, beautiful bill.”

Trump also suggested the legislation, in addition to a new executive order to lower drug prices and incoming money from tariffs, will help usher in “The Golden Age of America.”

His administration hopes the bill is done by the Fourth of July.

The Trump administration on Monday defended its decision to offer refugee status to dozens of white Afrikaners who said they were persecuted in South Africa.

President Donald Trump in a press briefing at the White House defended welcoming 49 Afrikaners who arrived on a U.S.-chartered flight from South Africa on Monday. Trump told reporters that white Afrikaners are “being killed” in a “genocide.”

“They’re being killed, and we don’t want to see people be killed,” Trump said. “It’s a terrible thing that’s taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspapers and the television media doesn’t even talk about it.”

The president mentioned that the United States may choose to skip the upcoming G20 summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in November unless the South African government takes steps to stop the persecution.

The refugee policy sparked questions of race, since the persecuted Afrikaners are white and targeted because of their race.

“I don’t care who they are. I don’t care about their race, their color. I don’t care about their height, their weight. I don’t care about anything,” Trump said. “I just know that what’s happening is terrible. I have people that live in South Africa. They say it’s a terrible situation taking place, so we’ve essentially extended citizenship to those people to escape from that violence and come here.”

President Trump on giving refugee status to South Africans: "It's a genocide. White Farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated. And the media doesn't even talk about it. If it were the other way around, that would be the only story they talk about." pic.twitter.com/YMP2QhYgzt

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed Trump’s comments in a post on X: “​​The South African government has treated these people terribly — threatening to steal their private land and subjected them to vile racial discrimination. The Trump Administration is proud to offer them refuge in our great country.”

The South African government has denied that white farmers are being persecuted.

“They can’t provide any proof of any persecution because there’s not any,” said Ronald Lamola, the country’s international relations and cooperation minister, according to The Washington Post. “There is not any form of persecution to white South Africans.”

The U.S. president suspended aid to South Africa in February. In the executive order directing the action, Trump accused the South African government of “fueling” violence against white landowners and legislating “to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.”

Trump ally Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, has said that his former home has “openly racist ownership laws.”