House set to vote on Trump’s big bill as Johnson vows to ‘get it over the line’ | House of Representatives
Republicans in the US House of Representatives took a step towards traffic Donald TrumpTax spending bill and spending on signature, but it is still unclear whether they have the numbers they need to vote later.
A preliminary proposal for the one beautiful bill was approved on the party lines with 214 in favor of and 212 against, which represents the stage of another vote later on Wednesday afternoon to adopt the base. If this succeeds, the Chamber will discuss the draft law and then vote on its final passage.
However, it is not certain yet if it is Mike JohnsonSpeaker of the House of Representatives, has the voices he needs to pass the base. Poor the fate of the draft law in Al -Mizan, where Trump and Vice President of JD Vance held talks with the governors to put out an internal rebellion against the changes made by the Senate.
The Senate approved the bill Vans The tie vote, on Tuesday, after a session recorded all night. Now the rooms must reconcile its publications: the sprawling Megabill returns to the House of Representatives, where Johnson said that the Senate “went beyond us more preferred to many of us” in its changes, especially to Medicaid, a program that provides health care for low -income Americans.
But the spokesman pledged to “get this bill above the line.” Trump set the deadline on July 4 to Congress to send the bill to his office.
According to CNN, Johnson told the correspondents: “When you have comprehensive legislation, and with many agenda elements, you will have a lot of different priorities and preferences among people because they represent different areas and have different interests.
“But we cannot make everyone 100 % happy. It’s impossible. This is a deliberative body. It is a legislative process. By definition, we must all abandon our personal preferences. [I’m] It will never be asked anyone to present the basic principles, but preferences must be presented for the greatest good, and this is what I think people realize and come to. “
Early on Wednesday morning, the Parliament’s Rules Committee advanced Management, and sending it to the ground to look at it. On their way to the Capitol, two conservative Republicans indicated optimism that the draft law will reach the home.
“I think these voices will take a little or longer than usual. But this is Washington.” Comrades are watching how the sausage is made, and so the works are run, “Congress Nancy Mass said to reporters.
Like many other members, MACE ended in driving from the South Carolina area to Washington after a wave of thunderstorms yesterday paid a great delay in flying and canceling the capital.
Smoking Cigar, a member of Congress Troy Niels from Texas said: “There are things in the draft law that I do not like, but will I change the draft law because I did not get what I wanted? I don’t think this will be good for America.”
The House of Representatives approved a preliminary draft of the legislation in May through one vote, and to overcome the opposition of Democrats unanimously. But many financial conservatives are angry at the cost estimates that will add the Senate version more federal deficit than the plan passed at home.
However, the delicate Republican majority of Johnson risks the loss of decisive voices from right -wing financial militants who demand discounts in sharp spending, and warns against dismantling safety network programs and Republicans One of the democratic leading countries is expected to put a controversial tax rule. Any of these groups can deviate from the bill’s path across a room where the Republican Party can lose more than three votes.
Trump celebrated the passage of the Senate from the draft law as “music for my ears”. The draft law was described as decisive to its second business schedule, and the Republicans in Congress made it their top priority.
The non -party Congress budget office estimates that the bill in its current form will add $ 3.3 trillion to the US budget deficit until 2034.
The tax discounts that were enacted during the first president’s term in 2017 will expand, and include new provisions to reduce taxes on advice, additional work and interest payments for some car loans. Trump’s plans are funded for collective deportation by allocating $ 45 billion to immigration and customs detention facilities, 14 billion dollars for deportations and billions of dollars to employ 10,000 additional new agents by 2029.
It also includes more than $ 50 billion to build new border fortifications, which are likely to include a wall along the border with Mexico.
To meet the demands of financial conservatives with discounts on the large federal budget deficit of the United States, the draft law imposes new work requirements on the registered in Medicaid. It also imposes an end to the use of tax states to finance their program, which may lead to discounts in services. Finally, the sunset is some incentives for the green energy technologies created by Congress during the reign of Joe Biden.
In a terrestrial speech on Wednesday, Alexandria Okasio Cortez, a democracy from New York, warned: “This is the draft law is a deal with Satan. It explodes our national debts.
“For what? To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires, take greed from our nation. We cannot support it and will not support it. You must be ashamed.”
