On Saturday, the Republicans of the Senate narrowly voted to advance a roomy draft law of 1,000 pages in order to issue President Trump’s agenda despite the opposition of two GOP legislators.
The vote was 51-49.
Two Republicans voted against the further development of the package: Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Who spoke out against a provision to augment the debt border by $ 5 trillion and Senator Thom Tillis (marginal no.), who says that the legislation would cost its state $ 38.9 for Medicaid Finance in the state.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) Changed his “no” voice to “Aye” and Holdout Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) And Cynthia Lummis (R-WYO).
The law had suffered several significant setbacks in the days and hours before it came to the ground and temporarily seemed to be on shaky soil.
The coordination itself was also full of drama.
The signs of difficulties came up 50 minutes after the opening of the vote, as three GOP senators who expressed concerns about the legislative template. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Lee and Scott-Eimmer had not yet appeared on the ground of the Senate.
Three other Republican senators, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Thom Tillis (Rn.C.) and Johnson announced far before the vote that they could oppose the application for the process and could not support the bill in its current form.
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune (Rs.d), stood along the back wall of the chamber – and seemed a bit nervous – and waited that his missing colleagues arrive on the ground.
Thune was surrounded by members of his management team, including the Senate GOP Peits John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Senator Markwayne Mulllin (R-Okla.), Deputy whip and chairman of the Senate Household Committee Lindsey Graham (Rs.c.) When he shifted his weight from foot to foot on foot.
When Murkowski finally appeared on the ground, she was quickly surrounded by Thune, Barrasso, Graham and the Chairman of the Senate Financial Committee, Mike Crapo (R-IDAHO), who blocked her with points and interjections on all sides.
Then Murkowski went away from the leadership group and sat alongside the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, Bill Cassidy (R-La.) To have a tranquil tête-à-tête.
Murkowski finally voted in favor of promoting the measure, but the vote remained open.
Almost three hours after the start of the coordination, Johnson, Lee, Scott and Lummis went with Vice President Vance from Thunes office and went to the Senate to give the final votes to advance the law.
At the beginning of the week, the most remarkable setback was a decision by the Senate parliamentarian at the beginning of this week that an upper limit for the tax service providers’ taxes, which is expected to save billions of dollars for Medicaid expenditure of the federal government, violated the Senate rule. GOP leaders were able to do this Write down this provision so that it stays in the bill.
And the legislation appeared in danger shortly before the vote, as Senator Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana Sell millions of public land.
Sheehy agreed at the last minute vote for legislation After the GOP leaders had promised that he would vote on a change to withdraw the language that forced the sale of public property from the law.
In the end, Thune achieved a great victory by moving the legislation a massive step closer to the final passage.
Thune welcomed the legislation on Saturday as a “unique opportunity to create laws to create a safer, stronger and more successful America”.
He quoted $ 160 billion to secure and immigrate the borders, and $ 150 billion to augment the budget of the Pentagon and a number of novel tax cuts in addition to extending the expiring tax reductions in Trump 2017.
He referred to the elimination of taxes on tips and taxes of the law on the payment of hour workers and spoke that enabled people to deduct car loits if they buy a novel car manufactured in the USA.
President Trump set a deadline for the Congress on July 4 to bring the invoice to his desk.
The democratic chairman of the Senate, Chuck Schumer (NY), has blown up his Republican colleagues on the tardy Friday evening because of the unveiling of the 940-page Senate replacement change and only gave the senators a few hours to check the legislation before the vote.
“It is difficult to believe, this calculation is worse, worse than any design we have seen so far. It is worse in healthcare. It is worse at [the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.] The deficit is worse, ”he said.
Schumer has beaten up the Republicans for promoting the draft law before he had an official budget estimate from the household body of the congress.
“You are afraid to show how bad this increases the deficit,” he said. “Future generations will be saddled with trillions with debts.”
A preliminary analysis of the Congress budget office, which is distributed by the Democrat of the Senate Financing Committee on Saturday, estimates the legislative template, which reduces Medicaid by 930 billion US dollars, far as the legislation that was passed by the house last month.
Tillis quoted the effects on Medicaid as the reason why he voted on the application for the application and plans to choose “No” via the final passage.
“I cannot support this invoice in its current form. It would lead to $ 10 billion in lost funds for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities,” he said in a statement.
“This will force the state to make painful decisions, such as the elimination of the Medicaid cover for hundreds of thousands in the expansion population and even the reduction of critical services for those in the traditional medical population,” he warned.
Senator Susan Collins (R-Main), a critical swing vote, said that she had voted to advance the legislation from the “Attention” to the GOP leader, but that does not mean that she will choose “yes” after the final pass.
She said that the Senate negotiators had improved legislation before publishing them on Friday, but added that she wanted to make additional changes.
“In general, I give the authority of the majority leader to bring invoices to the Senate in no way ahead of how I will vote on the final passage,” Collins told reporters.
“This will depend on whether the invoice is essentially changed,” she said. “There are some very good changes made in the latest version, but I would like to see further changes and I will submit a number of changes.”
The former high-ranking advisor to the White House, Elon Musk, deleted the law of the Senate on social media shortly before the vote and referred him to the oil, gas and coal industry full of “Handouts to Industries of the Past”.
“The latest draft law of the Senate will destroy millions of jobs in America and damage our country immense!
Before the coordination, Schumer announced that he would force the employees to read the entire 1,000-page law on the Senate, which takes up to 12 hours and delayed the start of the debate and the beginning of a marathon series of change voices, which is known as a voting A-Rama.
It is unclear whether the Republican senators will keep the Senate in the meeting overnight on Saturday to Sunday morning to
An overnight stay of the legislation would make the employees and the Floor employee tired before the senators debate legislation for 20 hours and then start a voting A-Rama for several hours.
