Republicans in the Senate transferred President Donald Trump’s large tax exemptions and spending discounts on a draft law on July 1 on the narrowest margins, prompting opposition from Democrats and their old old party after a turbulent session overnight.
The sudden result on an unusually tense weekend in the Capitol was crowned the presidential priority for the president on the brink of approval or collapse. In the end, this was 50-50, when Vice President JD Vance threw a tie vote.
Three members of the Republican Senators – Tom Teleles of North Carolina, Susan Collins from Maine, and Rand Paul from Kentucky – joined all Democrats to vote against it.
Mr. Paul said after that.
Republicans, who have a majority in Congress, are not expected to wrestle the bill to this point. The package is now returning to the House of Representatives, where the spokesperson Mike Johnson warned of the members of the Senate against reform what his room has already agreed. But the Senate made changes, especially for Medicaid, and risks more problems in the future. Republican Party leaders in the House of Representatives said they would put him on the office of Mr. Trump by the deadline on July 4.
It is a pivotal moment for the president and his party, as it was consumed by the “one beautiful draft law law” that is 940 pages, as it is officially loaded, and invested their political capital in achieving the process of wiping the Republican Party in Washington.
Mr. Trump admitted that it was “very complicated things”, where he left the White House to Florida.
He said, “I do not want to get crazy with the discounts.” “I don’t like discounts.”
What started as a routine but hard to vote, in a process called vote-Rome, ascended to a person around the clock where the Republican leaders were buying time to support support.
The fat roll in the room calls on feverish procedures to install the draft law. The scenes with a dark face played inside and outside the Senate Hall, amid an exhaustion.
The majority of the Senate John Thun, from South Dakota around the clock, worked desperately to obtain agreements at the last minute between those who in his party that the draft law discounts in Madikid will leave millions of other millions without care and most conservative wings, which even wants more severe discounts in the balloon deficit with tax cuts.
“In the end, we accomplished the mission.”
The leaders of the Republican Party had no room to spare them, with a narrow majority. Mr. Thun may not lose more than three members of the Republican Senators, and two – Mr. Teles, who warned that millions of people will lose access to medical health care, and Mr. Paul, who opposes the lifting of the debt limit by $ 5 trillion – has already indicated opposition.
Attention quickly turned into two major Senate members, Lisa Morkovsky of Alaska and Mrs. Colines, who also raised concerns about health care discounts, as well as a loose alliance of four conservative Republican Senators who pay even more severe discounts.
In particular, Mrs. Moraovsky became the subject of the attention of the Republican Party leadership, where they sat next to her for talks. She was gathering extensively for more than an hour in the back of the room with others, and noticed scribble on the leaves.
Then all the eyes were on Mr. Paul after returning from a visit to Mr. Thun’s office with an amazing offer that could win his voices. He suggested a significant decrease in increasing the bill on the roof of debt, according to two people familiar with the private meeting and gave not to disclose his identity for its discussion.
“Republicans are in a state of chaos because they know that the bill is very popular,” said Democratic leader Chuck Schumer from New York.
An analysis of the non -partisan Congress budget office found that another 11.8 million Americans would become non -believers by 2034 if the draft law becomes a law. The Omani Central Bank said that the package would increase the deficit by about $ 3.3 trillion over the course of the contract.
Senator Angus Kane, independent of Maine, who advises the Republican colleagues as they left the room: “Shame on O comrades.”
Senators insist on changes
Few Republicans seemed completely satisfied with the emergence of the final package, either in the House of Representatives or the Senate.
Mrs. Collins fought for the inclusion of $ 50 billion in the new rural hospital fund, but among the members of the Republican Party, there were fears that the project managers’ discounts would be devastating and forcing them to close.
While the fund’s amendment was refused, the ruling was included in the final bill. However, I voted no.
Sinator Mine State said she is happy to finance augmented financing, “but my difficulties in the draft law go beyond that.”
Mrs. Morkovsky described the decision -making process as “painful”.
She secured judgments to spare Alaska and other countries from some discounts in food stamps, but her efforts to enhance medical aid removals are shortened. I voted yes.
What is in the big bill
Finally, the Senate Bill includes $ 4.5 trillion of tax cuts, according to the latest CBO analyzes, which makes the 2017 TROMP permanent rates, which will end at the end of the year if Congress fails to act, with the addition of new rates that he made, including the lack of taxes on advice.
The Senate package will return billions of dollars in the Green Energy Tax Group, which is warning of Democrats against eliminating wind and solar energy at the country level. It will impose discounts of $ 1.2 trillion, to a large extent on medical and food stamps, by imposing work requirements on physical people, including some greater parents and Americans
In addition, the draft law will provide pumping $ 350 billion in border security and national security, including deportation, and some pay for the new fees imposed on immigrants.
Democrats are fighting throughout the day and night
Unable to stop the march towards traffic, Democrats tried to withdraw the process, including reading the weekend of the full draft law.
A few democratic amendments received support from a few Republicans, although almost no. More in one of these sessions was considered in the modern era.
Senator Patti Murray of Washington, Democrat at the credits committee, has caused special concern about the accounting method used by Republicans, which says that tax exemptions from Mr. Trump’s first state are now “current policy”, and the cost of their extension should not be calculated.
She said that this type of “magic mathematics” will not fly with Americans trying to balance their home books.
This story was reported by Associated Press. AP Joey Capletti, Darlene Superville, Seung Min Kim and Kevin Freking in this report.
