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Washington – By entering the last section of an arduous process, the Senate controlled by the Republicans began to vote on Monday on the changes in the massive bill for tax reduction and expenditure by President Donald Trump, in order to adopt it later in the day.
940 -page legislation, which the Senate has advanced on a 51-49 vote Late Saturday, was still taking shape while the “vote -a -rama” – the process in which senators can offer an unlimited number of modifications – began, with the leaders of the GOP hoping to use the process to satisfy the concerns of the hesitant factions.
Republicans must hold 50 of their 53 senators to adopt the bill. They lost the senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Who complained that it adds too much to the national debt, and the senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., who denounced the cups of Medicaid as harmful to his country of origin.
“So what should I say to 663,000 people in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them outside Medicaid?” Tillis said in an ardent fire speech on Sunday evening.
Tillis said that “amateurs” advise Trump and confer long -standing health care policy with “waste, fraud and abuses”. He announced a few hours earlier than He will not present himself to re -election In 2026, after facing Trump on his opposition.
Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine voted to advance the bill on Saturday, but said that she was “leaning on” against “voting for this during the final adoption. She has concerns about the Medicaid cuts and said that she prefers that taxes increase on high wages. And Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who also voted to advance the process during Weekend after discussions with Republican leaders, said Medicaid’s concerns.
In addition, a group of conservatives – meaning. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Rick Scott, r-Fla., And Mike Lee, Rutah-insists to revise the bill to reduce the impact of the deficit.
The budget office of the non -partisan congress projects that The Senate bill would increase the national debt by 3.3 billions of dollars over the next 10 years – it found that revenues would drop by approximately 4.5 billions of dollars and that the expenses would be reduced by $ 1.2 billion of dollars. The bill should also lead 11.8 million people to lose their health insurance by 2034 if it becomes law, said the CBO.
The GOP uses a budget tip known as “Current reference base“To hide the cost of the extent of tax reductions, Trump was sung in 2017, effectively reducing the price of the sticker by 3.8 billions of dollars. This tactic was not used in the budget process before and was going to establish a precedent to weaken the 60 senate vote.
“This is the nuclear option,” said senator Ron Wyden, D-ear.
The legislation would also reduce taxes on advice and overtime. It includes an increase of $ 150 billion to military spending this year, as well as an increase in federal money to carry out the mass deportation program and the application of Trump immigration. He would partly pay with Medicaid cuts, the additional nutritional aid program (SNAP) and clean energy financing.
And it includes an increase of $ 5 billions of the debt ceiling before a deadline in August to avoid a defect in the country’s obligations.
“The permanent tax relief included in our bill means that Americans retain more harder money and American companies that develop and invest in our country and workers,” said the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d.
The version of the Senate of the bill includes more abrupt medicaid cups than the version of the Chamber, as well as changes in clean energy financing declines. It shortens the calendar for a wide deduction ceiling of $ 40,000 and the local tax (salt) at five years, before suppressing it to $ 10,000. And it contains a series of provisions for priorities in Alaska, including tax relief for the captains of the whale, in an apparent attempt to win Murkowski.
Monday votes a-rama comes after a rare work session on weekends for the Senate.
On Saturday evening, after hours of delays and uncertainty, the Trump agenda package erased its first major obstacle, Tillis and Paul joining all the Democrats in the opposition.
The narrow but successful vote took place after a small group of GOP holpses – including Johnson, Scott and Lee – concluded an agreement with Thune on the amendments. But these modifications still have to obtain a majority vote to adopt. Vice-president JD Vance, a former senator, attended meetings at the Thune office and helped influence their votes, while Trump has Golf and held his own meetings with key senators.
The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., forced a complete reading of the bill, which delayed the process of around 16 hours. Democrats do not have the votes to flow the bill, because the Republicans use the process of “budget reconciliation” to the test of obstacles to bypass the threshold of 60 vote.
“Senate Democrats will use the voting-a-rama to underline the disastrous impacts of the historically unpopular proposal of the GOP,” said a Schumer spokesperson, adding that “the Republicans tearing the health care of millions of Americans and closing rural hospitals across the country to pay tax reductions.”
If the bill adopts the Senate, it would go to the Chamber, which had pass Its own version of the legislation on May 22 by a single vote.
President Mike Johnson, R-La., And his management team told the basic members during the weekend to be ready to return to Washington on Tuesday, with a possible final vote on the Senate bill on Wednesday.
GOP leaders aim to send the Trump office bill for its signature by the president’s self-imposed deadline on July 4, which is on Friday.
As in the Senate, the Republican leaders of the Chamber can only afford three defections of the GOP. Representative Thomas Massie, r-ky., Opposed the legislation from the start, arguing that she adds to the debt. And a handful of moderate republicans sound the alarm on the Medicaid cuts in their district and the changes of the Senate to the deduction of salt.
