Washington – the Senate undergoes a tense session day by day, which entered on Tuesday, and republican leaders are looking for ways to provide the great tax relief card of President Donald Trump and cuts of expenses while repulsioned the proposed corrections, mainly from Democrats trying to beat the package.
The final game seemed to take shape. The leader of most of the Senate, John Thune from southern Dakota, spent the night, reaching for contracts at the last minute between people from his party, worries that the reduction of the bill to Medicaid will leave millions unattended and his most conservative flank, who wants even more steep cut -out to stop balloon deficits with tax reductions.
JD Vance Vice President came to Capitol to break the vote if necessary.
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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.
At the same time, the house speaker, Mike Johnson, signaled more potential problems, warning that the Senate package may get into trouble when he is sent home to the last round of voting, because skeptical legislators are dismissed back to Washington before the fourth date of Trump in July.
In the post of social media at midnight, Trump called the bill “perhaps the largest and most important of its kind.” Vice President JD Vance summed up his own series of posts, simply begging the senators to “adopt the law”.
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What began as a routine, but a labor-intensive day of voting in corrections, in a process called voice-a-ram, spirally in a marathon almost 24-hour, when republican leaders bought time to support.
Droning Roll calls in the chamber denied the crazy action to keep the bill. Scenes from the gloomy face took place on the floor of the Senate and outside, and the temperaments exploded.
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 Carolina, who warns that people will lose access to Medicaid healthcare, and senator Rand Paul from Kentucky, who opposes the boost in the debt limit by $ 5 billion – pointed out the opponent.
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Note quickly turned to key senators, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins from Maine, who also included in order to stop the cuts of healthcare, but also a loose coalition of four conservative GOP senators pressing even more steep reduction.
In particular, Kurkowski was the subject of the attention of GOP leaders, because Thune and others sat next to her in conversation.
Then all the eyes were on Paweł after returning from a visit to the Thune office with a stunning offer that can win his voice. He suggested a significant reduction in the debt ceiling, according to two people familiar with a private meeting, and gave anonymity to discuss it.
And in social media, the billionaire Elon Musk again attacked Republicans as “Porky Pig Party !!” For taking into account the provision on a debt limit of $ 5 trillion, which is needed to allow further loans to pay bills.
Chuck Schumer from New York, leader of the Democratic Senate, said that his team is working on showing “how terrible he is.”
“Republicans are in Hat because they know that the bill is so unpopular,” said Schumer, he walked around the corridors.
New analysis It was found from the unusual Congress Budget Office that 11.8 million more Americans would become uninsured until 2034 if the bill became the law. CBO said the package would boost the deficit by almost USD 3.3 trillion within a decade.
Senators insist on changes
Few Republicans seem fully satisfied when the final package appears in the Chamber or Senate.
Collins proposed to strengthen the $ 50 billion of $ 50 billion proposed by $ 25 billion, compensated by a higher tax rate for people earning over $ 25 million a year, but its amendment failed.
And Kurkowski tried to secure the reserves of saving people in her condition against some cuts of food vouchers, which seemed to be accepted, while she also worked on increasing federal phrases to hospitals in Alaska and other states that did not meet parliamentary regulations.
“Radio silence,” said Murkowski, asked how he votes.
At the same time, the conservative Republicans of the Senate insist on voting on the health care plan, including Rick Scott of Florida, Mike Lee from Utah, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, they submitted to the Thune office for an almost average meeting.
A few corrections from Democrats have gained support from several Republicans, although almost none of them passed.
One amendment was mostly approved, 99-1. This would achieve reservation of states before regulating artificial intelligence if they receive certain federal funds.
What is in the large account
To sum up, the Senate Act covers $ 4.5 trillion tax reductions, in accordance with the latest CBO analysis, which is Trump rates in 2017, which would expire at the end of the year, if the Congress does not operate, while adding a recent campaign, including lack of taxes.
The Senate package would withdraw billions of dollars in the field of tax breaks to green energy, which Democrats warn, will note wind and clear investments throughout the country. It would apply $ 1.2 trillion of cuts, mainly on Medicaid and food vouchers, imposing the requirements for work on the matter of capable people, including some parents and older Americans, thanks to which registration eligibility is more stringent and changing federal phrases to states.
In addition, the Act would provide an infusion of $ 350 billion for border and national security, including for deportations, some of them pay recent 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 operate 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.
