When Donald Trump’s flagship tax and expenditure law narrowly adopted the US Senate on Tuesday morning, the President was 1,000 miles away and toured a new migrant center in the Florida Everglades.
A room with a trump phelfle and followers cheered when the news told him. Minutes later he beat the question of a reporter House of Representatives For a final voice.
“It’s a great bill,” replied Trump. “There is something for everyone.”
But Trump’s bravery opposed the next hurdles for the so -called “large, beautiful bill”, which is the decisive legislative performance of his second term.
First, Trump has to make the bill through the house, where some of his fellow human beings republican Have already threatened to vote against this and concerns about the massive price tag up to specific cuts up to Medicaid, the public health insurance system for those weak and disabled Americans.
The house originally passed an earlier version of the bill By a single voice in May.
But even if the president is able to get the House Republicans to stand behind the legislative template in the coming days, he faces a great task of defending legislation from an American public.
“You have to sell this to the American people because most people, most voters, are becoming aware of it,” said Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist.
Otherwise he warned: “This will be forgotten for the most part, or the critics will continue to plunge and the voters will remember them negatively.”
Opinion surveys have consistently shown that the legislation that extends tax reductions for the rich would increase the health and social programs for the poor at the same time.
Non -party analysts have warned that the cuts against Medicaid could move out about 12 million Americans of access to health insurance in the coming years. A morning survey carried out at the weekend showed that 50 percent of the voters leaned against the “large, beautiful bill”, while 36 percent supported them.
In addition to the unanimous democratic opposition, Trump had to be exposed to attacks on the legislation of some Republicans and other allies who reduced his top home goal in the congress.
Elon Musk, the billionaire who recently left the administration after a spit with Trump, renewed his public criticism of the legislation on Tuesday. “I just ask that we don’t have America bankrupt,” he wrote about X.
Trump replied by suggesting that the government should reduce subsidies that would benefit Musk’s business, and later said that he would take a “look” to deport him to South Africa where Musk was born.
On the Capitol Hill, three Republican senators of 53 leaned against legislation – and further criticized them afterwards Tuesday voice.
“My voice against this draft law is mainly based on the harmful effects on medicaid that affect families with low incomes and rural health service providers such as our hospitals and nursing homes,” said Senator Susan Collins from Maine.
Even some Republican legislators who voted for the legislation complain.
“While we have worked on improving the current bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the rest of our nation, and we all know it,” said Lisa Murkowski, who was on the fence, but approved the invoice at the eleventh hour.
“My sincere hope is that this is not the end product,” she added, pleading for the house to make some changes.
In view of the close majority of Republicans in the house and the uniform opposition of the Democrats against the draft law, it can only afford to lose a handful of votes if the legislation is to be approved by the lower chamber.
The Senate made several significant changes to the version of the law, which the house passed in May in May, increased the costs for legislation and medicaid imposed steeper cuts, which annoyed some Republicans of the representatives.
The house and the Senate must hand over an agreed version of the law before it is sent to Trump’s desk to be signed in the law by his self -imposed period on July 4.
Trump asked the Republicans from House to gather behind him on Tuesday afternoon and write about his social platform of truth: “To my GOP friends in the house: stay united, have fun and voice ‘yay’ … God bless you all!”
The Vice President JD Vance went to X to welcome the legislation to provide Trump’s central promises from Trump 2024, including “massive tax cuts, especially without tax on tips and overtime” and “big money for border security”.
But this did not prevent several Republicans from the house from the version of the Senate and insisted on the fact that more changes to legislation are made – a step that could derail the voices this week and to force the house to blow through Trump’s period.
“The changes that the Senate made to the house passed a beautiful law, including unacceptable increases in the public debt and the deficit, the passage in the house difficult,” said Marlin Stutzman, a Republican member of the lower chamber from Indiana, in one position on X.
Others have achieved a more optimistic note – but tried to promote expectations that a deal could be completed by the weekend.
“We will arrive there at some point, but I don’t think it will be in the next few days,” said Andy Harris, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, an influential group of conservatives.
Johnson told reporters on the Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon that he would try to advance to the President’s desk until Friday.
“My goal and my responsibility is to bring this bill over the line,” said the spokesman. “We’ll do everything we can to do that.”
But with the interim elections in 16 months, any legislative triumph for Trump and the Republicans could prove to be pyrrhically.
“On the Republican side, when the draft law had passed, there was a little sombress that I don’t believe was expected,” said Chuck Schumer, the Senate Senate, after the vote. “And that was because they knew deep in their hearts how bad this calculation is for them, their states and the Republican party.”
