Washington – a long voting day in the Senate was evaded for the evening on Monday, and republican leaders President Donald Trump Big bill tax relief and expenditure cutting While repelling the proposed corrections from Democrats, who oppose the package and try to defeat him.
The result was not yet in sight. The leader of the majority of Senate John Thune from southern Dakota He decided that the Republicans “were wondering how to get to the end game.”
AND Marshal of the House Mike Johnson He signaled the potential problems with which the Senate Package may encounter when he was finally sent to his chamber to the last round of voting, which was expected this week, before the date of Trump on the fourth of July.
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“I won my colleagues from the Senate to please, please keep him as close to the home product as possible,” said Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana when he left the Capitol around DinnerTime. Republicans have already passed their version last month.
This is a key moment for Republicans who have control over Congress and race to finish working with Trump’s holiday date on Friday. 940 pages “One big beautiful bill of Bill” As it is formally entitled, he consumed Congress as a common priority with the president.
GOP leaders have no place to lose, with a narrow majority in both chambers. Thune may lose no more than three republican senators and two – Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolinawho warns that people will lose access to Medicaid healthcare, and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who opposes the raising of the debt limit – pointed out. Tillis suddenly announced on the weekend he would not look for re -election After Trump threatened to have a campaign against him.
And the billionaire Elon Musk hit the Republicans again as “Porky Pig Party !!” For enabling a provision that would escalate the debt limit of $ 5 trillion, which is needed to allow further loans to pay bills.
Before Monday’s vote of the democratic Senate, the leader Chuck Schumer from New York said that the “most difficult elections” for Republicans would still come.
“With each prescribed Senate, the Republicans have increased their account,” said Schumer. “All this to grant tax breaks to billionaires.”
Democrats proposed dozens of corrections in the so -called Voting-a-ramAlthough most are expected to be disappointed. Democrats are united against the provisions of the Republican President and are eager to queue to question them.
New analysis With impartial Congress Budget Office It was found that 11.8 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 if the bill became a law. CBO said the package would escalate the deficit by almost USD 3.3 trillion within a decade.
The White House said he was counting on republican legislators.
“Republicans must remain hard and united during the episode of the house,” said the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt.
But after a whole day of voting there was a tardy, another sign that republican leaders were not ready to call yet.
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Senators to watch
Few Republicans seem fully satisfied when the final package appears in the Chamber or Senate.
Tillis said that this is a betrayal of the president’s promises so as not to throw people away from healthcare, especially if rural hospitals are closed.
Dream. Susan Collins, R-Maine, proposed $ 25 billion more for rural hospitals, and Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska tried to secure the rules to save people in her condition against some of the cuts of healthcare and food. They did not say how they would vote for the final package.
At the same time, some loosely balanced conservative Republicans of the Senate – Rick Scott from Florida, Mike Lee from Utah, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming – proposed steep cuts, especially for healthcare. This pulled their own warning from Trump so as not to go crazy.
When the first few amendments of the Senate appeared on Monday – to hit a part of the act that would limit Medicaid funds for rural hospitals or change The costs of food allowances To the States – some have gained support from several Republicans, although none of them went through.
Senator Mike Crapo, chairman of the GOP Financial Committee, rejected the tragic forecasts of healthcare cutting as democrats trade what he called “fear policy.”
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What is in the huge account
To sum up, the Senate Act includes $ 4.5 trillion of tax reductions, according to the latest CBO analysis, permanently Trump rates in 2017which would expire at the end of the year if the congress did not work, adding up-to-date ones on which he led the campaign, including No tip taxes.
The Senate package would withdraw billions of dollars Green tax breakswhich Democrats warn, erase wind and radiant investments throughout the country. It would apply $ 1.2 trillion, mainly Medicaid AND Food vouchersBy imposing work requirements, making qualifications for registration more stringent and changing federal verses to the states.
In addition, the account would provide an infusion of $ 350 billion Border and national securityIncluding deportations, some of them pay up-to-date fees charged to immigrants.
Democrats are fighting all day and night
Unable to stop the march towards the transition, democrats as a minority party in the Congress utilize tools to their disposal to delay and drag the process.
Democrats forced to read the text full, which lasted 16 hours, and have a stream of amendments.
Senator Patty Murray from Washington, the Democrat ranking in the Commission of Menings, raised special fears at the beginning of the debate at the end of Sunday about the accounting method applied by republicans, who claims that tax breaks from the first term of Trump are now “current policy”, and the costs of their extension should not be counted on deficit.
She said that this kind of “magical mathematics” would not fly with Americans trying to balance their own home books.
