The Senate is doing an overnight session that buys in the Republican leader in Tuesday, while looking for the search Opportunities to secure support for President Donald Trump Big Bill from Tax gaps and expenses During the remedy proposed changes, mainly from Democrats, who try to defeat the package.
A final was not in sight immediately. Senate majority leader John Thune from South Dakota Working for a last minute agreement between which in his party fears that the reduction of the law against Medicaid will leave millions without care and its most conservative flank, which even wants steeper cuts in order to prevent the deficits with tax cuts.
At a time, Thune said that they were in the “homestretch” when he stormed through the halls in Capitol, only to return a short time later, which indicates that the progress was “difficult”.
At the same time House spokesman Mike Johnson has signaled more potential problems in advance that the Senate package could get into difficulties if it is sent back into the house for a final round of coordination, since skeptical legislators are called back to Washington before Trump’s period of July.
“I enforced my colleagues from the Senate to please, please, please keep it as close as possible to the house product,” said Johnson, the Republican of Louisiana. House Republicans had already passed Your version last month.
It is a crucial moment for the Republicans who have control over the congress and work on Friday with just a few days before Trump’s vacation. The 940-page “A big beautiful Bill Act” As it officially has the title “, the congress consumed as a common priority with the president.
In a social media post midnight, in which they demanded them, Trump called the calculation “perhaps the greatest and most important of its kind”. Vice President JD Vance summarized his own Post -von contributions and simply asked the senators to “adopt the legislative template”.
The GOP leaders have no space to save, with close majorities in both chambers. Thune cannot lose more than three Republican senators, and already two – Senator Thom Tillis by North CarolinaHe warns that people lose access to medical health care, and Senator Randrand Paul von Kentucky, who opposes the debt border, have given opposition. Tillis abruptly announced over the weekend that he would not look for re -election After Trump threatened to fight him.
Attention quickly went to the most important senators, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins from Maine, who also expressed concerns about the cuts of healthcare, but also a loose coalition of four conservative GOP sensors that are even steeper.
And on social media, the billionaire Elon Musk has again on the Republicans as “The Porky Pig Party !!” beat. For the inclusion of a provision that would increase the country’s debt limit by 5 trillion US dollars, the enabling of the further loans is required to pay the invoices.
The democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer from New York, said his side is working on “how terrible it is”.
“The Republicans are in ruins because they know that the bill is so unpopular,” said Schumer when he went through the halls.
A new 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 said the package would increase the deficit by almost 3.3 trillion dollars in the course of the decade.
To observe senators
Only a few Republicans seem to be satisfied with the final package either in the house or in the Senate.
Tillis said it was a betrayal of the President’s promises not to start people from health care, especially if rural hospitals close.
Collins had proposed to strengthen the proposed rural hospital fund of $ 25 billion to $ 50 billion, but failed to change. And Murkowski tried to secure supplies to spare people in their state a few cuts in health and food brands, and at the same time worked to improve the federal reimbursements to Alaska’s hospitals. You didn’t say how you would vote for the final package.
“Radio silence,” said Murkowski when he was asked.
At the same time, conservative Senate Republicans proposed a steeper health care, including Rick Scott from Florida, Mike Lee from Utah, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, submitted in Thunes office to meet Midnacht.
The Senate spent about 18 hours to search more than two dozen changes in what is called, A voice-a-ramaA typical tedious process that took longer than usual when negotiations take place on and next to the chamber soil. The white house’s legislative team was also in Capitol.
Some of the changes – to strike parts of the invoice that would restrict Medicaid funds for rural hospitals or postponement The costs for food stamp advantages For the states – have won support from a few Republicans, although almost nobody was doing.
Senator Mike Crapo, the GOP chairman of the Finance Committee, dismissed the poor predictions of health shortlements as Democrats, which he described as “politics of fear”.
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.
Democrats fight all day and the night
The Democrats as a minority party in the congress cannot stop the march towards passage and use the tools available to them to delay and pull out the process.
The Democrats forced a complete reading of the text that lasted 16 hours and they have a stream of changes.
Senator Patty Murray from Washington, the ranked Democrat in the appropriation committee, expressed special concern at the beginning of the debate on the late Sunday about the accounting method used by the Republicans, which states that the tax benefits from Trump’s first term are now “current policy” and that the costs for the extension should not be directed to deficits.
She said this type of “magmathematics” would not fly with Americans who try to compensate for their own budget books.
