The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., speaks with reporters as a return to his office from the Senate Chamber in the US Capitol building on June 30, 2025 in Washington, DC (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Washington -The US Senate started a voice department of the marathon change on Monday, in which the legislators will discuss dozens of proposals from Republicans and Democrats, which could significantly change the “large, beautiful draft law”, even if a final voice could change.
The Voice A-Rama is expected to last all Monday and possibly until Tuesday and senators who are not used to staying on the floor every hour and night. In the end, the Senate will vote on the final passage and if the tax and expenses of the law are successful, it will be recorded next in the house, possibly as early as Wednesday morning.
The first substantial debate and vote on Monday was about the decision of the Republicans to utilize the current politics instead of current right to determine the tax effects of the law.
The congress has long used the current law to determine how much laws will add or deduct annual deficits, especially when it comes to the budget reconciliation process used for this draft.
Since the tax law of the Republicans was to expire in 2017 at the end of the year, the utilize of the current right -wing base showed significantly higher deficits than current politics – which could prove to be a political problem.
The debate, Wonky even for the Senate, could have wavy effects in the future, especially if the democrats ever receive uniform control over the government and utilize the change in processing that the GOP legislators determine this time for their own political goals.
During the brief debate, the chairman of the budget, Lindsey Graham, Rs.c., said before the vote that the utilize of the current guideline would enable the GOP to make many of the taxes in 2017 permanently instead of fulfilling them sunset in order to comply with the reconciliation rules.
“What I’m trying to do and I am very happy about it is to ensure that tax cuts will not run in 10 years,” said Graham.
Reconciliation calculations cannot enhance the deficit after the end of the 10-year budget window.
The democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer from New York, spoke out against the application of current politics towards current law and reserved his Republican colleagues, although his arguments were ultimately unsuccessful.
“The Republicans do something that the Senate has never done before – a fake mathematics and gimmicks for accounting to hide the true costs of the law,” said Schumer. “Look, Republicans can use all budgetary gimmicks that you want to try to edit mathematics on paper, but you cannot indicate the economic consequences of debt about the real economic consequences.”
The impartial congress office of the congress published his current legal assessment From the legislative template on Sunday, the legislation would show 3.253 trillion dollars to deficits in the next decade.
Senator correct 53-47 According to party boundaries against Graham’s decision to utilize current guidelines.
Close majority
The senators spent the next few hours to debate democratic changes to the legislative template, which would have dealt with Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. However, no democratic proposals were passed by Monday afternoon, and the Republicans did not yet have to vote on their own changes.
As soon as both sides exhaust themselves, the Senate will pass to a final levy. With a narrow majority with 53 seats, GOP leaders can only afford to lose three members and to bring the draft law to the tie with Vice President JD Vance.
Two Republican Senators – Thom Tillis by North Carolina and Rand Paul from Kentucky – already stated that they would oppose the bill agreed against It delayed on Saturday evening. A change in the law could cause problems for other senators and make the entire process headache for GOP leadership.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., said during a floor speech that the core of the comprehensive package was to avoid a cliff, which was created when the Republicans approved lower tax rates during the first term of office of President Donald Trump.
“This is about extending this tax relief, so that the same people who benefited from it in 2017 and have not a colossal, massive tax increase in the past eight years that she hit the face on January 1,” said Thun.
Schumer criticized the changes in the guidelines and expenses in the Mega-Bill strongly and said that they would lead to fewer people access to safety network programs such as medicaid, health insurance protection for people with low incomes and some people with disabilities as well as the supplementary nutritional support program that offers food support for food support.
“How can a senator go home and tell his voters:” I’m sorry, I took away your health care because I wanted to give billionaire tax benefits? “, Said Schumer,” and yet the Republicans are dead by going a cliff by saying goodbye to a draft law that they know that they are ruined their own voters. “
“All -round change”
Depending on how popular an amendment application is and what aspects of legislation it should change, he could enhance or reduce the number of GOP senators who are willing to vote for the final version of the law.
Republican leaders will want to submit all democratic changes. If some are added, Thune can utilize a procedural tactic that is referred to as the “circumferential change” in order to reduce problematic changes by wiping out democratic changes with a majority vote.
In addition to the opportunity for the senators to discuss the details of politics, voting A-Rama serves a political purpose for Democrats who are trying to endanger senators to take votes that can then be used during the interim elections to try to influence voters.
These changes will mainly focus on Susan Collins from Maine to North Carolinas Tillis announced his retirement Sunday.
While Democrats have more incentives for so-called “Gotcha changes” because they try to turn the Senate to turn from red to blue, GOP leaders can also present changes that in need of protection in need of protection such as Georgia’s Jon Ossoff.
And since the opportunity is occasional to ask as many changes as Senator, both Democrats and Republicans have an eye on the legislator of the purple state in 2028.
