Washington (AP) -The senators came together on Monday to think about the proposed changes to the proposed changes to the large tax benefits and patterns by President Donald Trump in relation to the challenges, including the announcement of a GOP senator of the weekend, that after the return, he is not candidated after the package against the shortening of the Medicaid health care for re -election.
The potential changes were taken into account in a so-called voting a rama, although most are expected to fail. Since the Democrats against the legislation of the Republican President united and traveled eagerly to question them, the coordination could last all day and get into the night.
“It is time to choose,” said the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune from South Dakota when the meeting opened.
The democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer from New York, said that the “most difficult decisions” for Republicans were still to come. Democrats, he said, bring “changes after the change after a change on the
The day will be crucial for the Republicans who have control over the congress and against Trump’s fourth July period for the completion of work. The 940-page “A big beautiful Bill Act”, as officially consumed with the title “The Congress with the President”, without space that cannot be failed politically, even when not all Republicans are on board.
A fresh analysis from the impartial congress office showed that 11.8 million other Americans would not be insured by 2034 if the draft law became law. The CBO said the package would escalate the deficit by almost 3.3 trillion dollars in the course of the decade.
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s management team called back the legislators to have already voted in the house on Wednesday if the legislation can clarify the Senate first.
But the result remains uncertain.
When the first changes on Monday were -in order to strike parts of the legislative template that restrict the Medicaid funds to rural hospitals or relocated the costs of food states to the states -won some of a few Republicans.
Senator Susan Collins, R-Main, joined the Democrats in the change in rural hospitals, and Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to the Democrats of both vote.
In none of the changes, the majority were supported to change the package significantly.
To observe senators
Only a few Republicans seem to be fully satisfied with the final package. GOP Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina, who announced on Sunday that he would not strive for a re -election after Trump called him because of his opposition to the package, said that he had the same goals as Trump: Taxes and Expens.
But Tillis said this package was a betrayal of the President’s promises not to start people from health care, especially if rural hospitals close.
“We could take the time to do it right,” he thundered.
At the same time, some loose republican Senate in the Senate – Rick Scott from Florida, Mike Lee from Utah, Ron Johnson from Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming – voted steeper freights, especially for health care and drew their own warning from Trump.
“Don’t go too crazy!” The president posted on social media. “Remember you still have to be re -elected.”
What is in the gigantic bill?
Overall, the Senate’s draft law contains tax cuts in the amount of around 4 trillion dollars, which rejects the tariffs of enduring slopes in 2017, which would expire at the end of the year if the congress did not act while the fresh ones he fought for, including taxes.
The Senate Package would bring back billions of dollars of green energy tax non-witnesses that warn the Democrats, wipe out the wind and solar investments nationwide and impose $ 1.2 trillion to cuts, mainly for medicaid and food stamps by increasing work requirements and the registration of the federal regulations to the federal states.
In addition, the law would provide an infusion of 350 billion US dollars for border and national security, also for deportations, some of which were paid to immigrants with fresh fees.
Democrats ready to fight
The Democrats as a minority party in the congress cannot stop the march towards passage and exploit 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. Then the democratic senators took over the debate on Sunday and filled the chamber with speeches, while the Republicans were largely aside.
Senator Patty Murray from Washington, the rendered democrat in the appropriation committee, expressed special concern about the accounting method, which was used by the Republicans, which states that the tax benefits from Trump’s first term are now “current politics” and that the costs for the extension should not be counted on deficits.
“In my 33 years here in the Senate of the United States, things have never worked that way,” said Murray, who was the longest -reigning democrat in the household committee.
She said this type of “magmathematics” would not fly with Americans who try to compensate for their own budget books.
“Go back home,” she said, “and try this game with your voters.”
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Ali Swenson, Fatima Hussein, Michelle L. Price, Mary Clare Jalonick and Matt Brown contributed to this report.
