The Lord and his vassal, triumphant. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images After a 19-hour meeting of the Rules Committee to clear the bill and a 7 a.m. vote after a wee-hours procedural maneuvering, the House passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 by the smallest margin imaginable (one vote) was always the the likeliest outcome. Yes, multiple factions threatened to withhold their votes over this or that provision, most notably the hard-line conservatives of the Freedom Caucus and a band