Washington – The Republicans of House sent the pursuit of President Donald Trump GOP budget plan to go on Tuesday, a step towards providing a “large, beautiful bill” with $ 4.5 trillion tax breaks and $ 2 trillion in expenditure cuts despite the wall Opposition of Democrats and discomfort among republicans.
House speaker Mike Johnson almost had no votes in his own Bare bones gop most And I fought on all fronts-the democrats, restless republicans and skeptical senators of GOP-on the purpose of developing the characteristic legislative package of the party. Trump called GOP’s recalcitors and invited Republicans to the White House.
Voting was 217-215, with one Republican and all opponents of the Democrats, and the result was threatened to the hammer.
“In such a vote you will always have people with whom you talk all the way through the end of the vote,” said the leader of the majority Steve Scalise before calling to throw.
“We did it,” said the speaker later.
The package passage is crucial for the start of the process. Trump wants Republicans who control the Congress, approved a huge bill Extend tax breakswhich he secured during his first term, but it expires this year, as well Cutting expenses as part of federal programs and services.
The next steps are long and troublesome, before anything becomes the law – weeks of interrogations of the commission to develop details and send the House version to the Senate, where Republicans have gone through their own scaled version. There are more vast votes ahead of us, including an unrelated agreement to prevent the government’s closing when federal funds expire on March 14. Talks are also underway.
All this is developing among the emerging slack dismissal of thousands of employees Throughout the country and anger, voters begin to confront the legislators at the town hall meetings at home.
During the afternoon debate, the Democrats condemned the package as “treason” to the Americans, “plan of the American fall” and simply a “republican ripple”.
“Our way of life as a country is assault,” said the leader of the democratic democratic Hakem Jeffries at the stages of the Capitol.
Flank by the Americans who said that they would be wounded by Medicaid cuts and other social programs, the Democrats boomed the GOP budget plan. But as a minority party, they have no votes to stop it.
Slashing the government is not always popular at home
Even when they press forward, Republicans encounter a known problem: lowering federal expenditure is usually easier to say than done. Thanks to the pentagon cuts and other programs, largely outside the limits, most of the other government outlays concern healthcare, food vouchers, student loans and programs on which their voters are based.
Several republican legislators are worried that the scope of cuts is watching – especially about $ 880 billion in a decade to the committee, which deals with expenditure on health care, including, for example, Medicaid, or $ 230 billion for the Agricultural Committee, that funds for vouchers Food – will be too harmful to your voters at home.
GOP leaders insist that Medicaid is not specially mentioned in the initial 60-page budget frames, which is true. Johnson and his management team also told the legislators that they would have a lot of time to debate the details, shaping the final package.
But legislators wanted to assure that the healthcare program and others would be protected as they were developed and combined with the Senate in the coming weeks.
Libertine. Mike LawlerRN.Y., said that Trump promised that he would not let Medicaid cut.
“The president was clear about it. I was clearly about it – said Lawler. “We will go over it, but today the goal is to start the trial.”
At the same time, GOP Hawks’ deficit stopped support until they were convinced Nation in the amount of $ 36 trillion dollars debt load. They warned that he would collect debts, because the cost of tax breaks, at least $ 4.5 trillion in a decade, prevailing $ 2 trillion of cuts for government programs.
One key conservative, rep. Thomas Massie, r-ky., He finished the only voice of GOP against.
Trump invited dozens of Republicans to the White House, including the representative of Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., Who joined the group of GOP legislators from the conference conference conference conference, raising concerns about the protection of Medicaid, food vouchers and subsidies at Pell for College.
“Although we fully support efforts to reduce the prodigal expenses and deliver President Trump Agenda, it is necessary not to cut programs supporting American communities throughout our country, “rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas and several other GOP legislators from the Latin conference.
Democrats protest against tax reductions for wealthy
Democrats in house And the Senate swore to fight the whole trial. “This is not what people want,” said representative Jim McGovern, D-Mass, during the debate of the regulations before the planned voices.
“We all know this economics,” said Tax discount in 2017 This mainly affected the prosperous: “Don’t work”.
Trump signaled the preference for the “vast” bill, but also seems to enjoy the competition between the Chamber and the Senate, the legislators said when he puts Republicans against each other to see which version will appear.
The Republicans Senate began Their own package of $ 340 billion last week. He focuses on sending Trump’s money, which his administration now needs his deportation and border safety agenda, with plans separately this year.
“I keep my breath. I keep my fingers crossed, “he said. John CynnR-Texas, who said that he supports the home approach as a better option. “I think one arrow is their best opportunity.”
The GOP house will face the trap before
Johnson, whose party Lost places In the November election, command One of the thinnest majority In up-to-date history, which meant that almost every Republican had to keep in line or risk losing voting.
The budget is compiled during a long process, which first sends instructions to various committees of the Chamber and Senate, which will have several weeks to develop more detailed plans of additional debate and votes.
Rep. Jodey Arrington, a republican chairman of the Chamber of Budget Committee, said, together with the assumptions of economic growth, from 1.8%, according to the forecast of the impartial Congress Budget Bureau to 2.6%, according to the House Republicans forecast, the package would generate around 2.6 trillion USD. 10 years and would assure that the plan would help reduce the deficit.
Some groups of fiscal spokespersons perceive GOP economic projections too bullish.
