The Republicans of the Senate drawn President Donald Trump large Tax relief and expenses into account On Tuesday the closest of the edges through the passage, which pushed the opposition of Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight meeting.
The result ended an unusually tense Working weekend In the Capitol, the signed legislative priority of the president, who are on the verge of approval or collapse. In the end, this zeal was 50-50, with the Vice President JD Vance laid the tuning of the tapes.
Three Republican senators – Thom Tillis by North CarolinaSusan Collins from Maine and Rand Paul from Kentucky – agreed with all the democrats.
“In the end we did the job”, ” Senate majority leader John Thune from South Dakota said after that.
The difficulty for the Republicans who have the majority in the congress is not expected that the legislative template will decrease according to this point. The package now goes back to the house where Speaker Mike Johnson The senators had warned of Louisiana not to revise what his chamber had already approved. But the Senate has made changes, especially at Medicaid and risked more problems. House GOP leader Schwor Schwor to put it on Trump’s desk until his deadline for July fourth.
It is a crucial moment for the president and his party because they were consumed by the 940 pages “A big beautiful Bill Act” This was his formal title before the Democrats submitted a change to take off the name. The Republicans invested their political capital in the takeover of their power in Washington.
Trump admitted that it is “very complicated stuff” like him left the white house to Florida.
“I don’t want to be too crazy with cuts,” he said. “I don’t like cuts.”
Senators work around the clock
What started as a routine, but tedious day of the change, turned into a night suction in a process called Voice A-Rama when the Republican leader bought time to support support.
The Droning Roll Call in the Chamber resisted the frenzied action to determine the invoice. Dark -faced scenes that took place on and outside the Senate in the middle of exhaustion.
Thune worked around the clock around the clock and grabbed last-minute agreements between those in his party, who feared that the reduction of the legislation compared to Medicaid would leave millions of more people without care and his most conservative flank, which only wanted steeper cuts to prevent deficits with tax cuts.
The GOP leaders had no space to save. Thune could not lose more than three republican senators, and two – Tillis who warned that millions of people lose access to medical health care, and Paul, who opposes the debt limit by $ 5 trillion – had already had it given opposition.
The attention quickly went to two other important senators, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Collins, who also made concerns about the cuts of health care and a loose coalition of four conservative GOP senators, which were also urged to even steeper reductions.
Murkowski in particular was the subject of the attention of the GOP leaders when they sat next to her. Then all eyes were on Paul after he had returned from a visit to Thunes office.
The democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer from New York, said that the Republicans are “in ruins because they know that the bill is so unpopular”.
An analysis out of The impartial congress office of the congress found that 11.8 million Americans would not be insured by 2034 if the legislative template becomes the law. The CBO The package would increase the deficit by almost 3.3 trillion dollars over the decade.
Built pressure from all sides. The billionaire Elon Musk said everyone who voted for the package should “hang up” and warned that he would fight her. But Trump had also hit the GOP -HOLDOUTOUTS, including Tillis, who abruptly announced his own decision about the weekend Not looking for a re -election.
Senators insist on changes
Few Republicans seemed to be satisfied with the final package either in the house or in the Senate.
Collins fought to accept 50 billion US dollars for a new rural hospital fund, among the GOP senators feared that the Medicaid provider of the draft law would be devastating, and forced them to close.
While its change was rejected for the fund, the provision was inserted into the final invoice. Nevertheless, she was wrong.
Maine’s senator said that she was glad that the strengthened financing was added, but “my difficulties with the invoice go far beyond.”
And Murkowski described the decision -making process “painful”.
She secured supplies to save Alaska and other states from some grocery label cuts, but her efforts to strengthen Medicaid’s reimbursement was too short. She was right.
What is in the big bill?
Overall, according to the latest CBO analysis, the Senate’s draft law contains tax cuts of 4.5 trillion dollars that are permanent Trump’s prices for 2017What would expire at the end of the year if the congress did not act while the new ones he fought, including No taxes on tips.
The Senate package would move back billions of dollars Green energy tax non -witnessesWhat Democrats warn will find wind and solar investments nationwide. It would be 1.2 trillion US Medicaid And GroceryBy imposing work requirements for powerful people, including some parents and the elderly Americans, which makes the registration authorization more strict and changes federal reimbursement in states.
In addition, the invoice would an infusion of 350 billion US Border and national securityincluding for deportations, some of them paid with new fees to immigrants.
“The big one not so beautiful has passed,” said Paul.
Democrats fight all day and the night
The Democrats were unable to stop the march towards the passage and tried to pull out the process, also with a weekend reading of the full bill.
Senator Patty Murray from Washington, the rendered democrat in the appropriation committee, expressed particular concerns about the account method used by the Republicans, which states that the tax breaks from Trump’s first term are now “current politics” and that the costs for the extension should not be counted on deficits.
She said this type of “magmathematics” would not fly with Americans who try to compensate for their own budget books.
