By Lisa Mascaro and Kevin Freking
Washington (AP) – With a thrust by President Donald Trump, the House Republicans will try to climb their budgetary framework for approval on Wednesday evening, despite serious doubts of the GOP conservative legislators, that the billions of dollars of tax releases without a deep reduction in expenses will accumulate on the country’s debt.
President Mike Johnson dares to almost republican retained to challenge Trump and risk upsetting what the president calls the “big and beautiful bill”, which is at the heart of his tax reductions, mass deportations and a smaller federal government. The president of the GOP cannot afford many defections of his thin majority, thanks to the unified democratic opposition.
Tuesday evening, Trump urged the Republicans at a black tie fundraising dinner at the National Building Museum the day before, saying: “You just got there – close your eyes and get there.”
“Stop in greatness!” Trump told them, twice to focus, to applaud.
Pushing the budgetary framework forward would be an important step for Johnson, which had established a deadline for the break of the Spring Break congress on Thursday for having advanced the resolution. But a failed vote, especially since the economy convulses on Trump’s trade wars, would prove a major setback for the besieged speaker and the republican agenda in Washington.
It then happens that the assault on Trump’s price left the legislators at the forefront. A few hours before the room was ready to vote, Trump stopped a large part of his ambitious prices program, giving a rebound in the financial markets after days of troubles and warnings of an American recession.
“We are at a critical inflection point, with a generational opportunity,” said representative Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, chairman of the Chamber’s Budget Committee, during a period of rules before the vote.
But the conservatives of the GOP of the Chamber, including several of those who have personally met Trump in the White House this week, remain concerned that the plan of the Senate Gop, approved last weekend, does not reduce the expenses at the level they believe necessary to help prevent deficits.
“Mathematics are not added,” published the representative Chip Roy, R-Texas on social networks. He said he wouldn’t support him.
Wednesday’s vote would be another step in a week, if not for months, a long process. The room and the Senate must solve their differences with more votes to come on the final product later this spring or summer.
The Democrats, in the minority, do not have enough votes to stop the package, but warned against this.
The representative of Pennsylvania, Brendan Boyle, the classification democrat of the Budget Committee, said that if the bill of the Chamber or the Senate, the GOP budget cuts, was deeply harmed in Medicaid, the health care program used by tens of millions of Americans.
“This will have a devastating impact on my district, my state – and the 435 Congress districts across our country,” said Boyle.
The budgetary framework is the centerpiece of the republican effort to preserve the tax reduction approved in 2017, during the first mandate of Trump, while potentially adding the new ones he promised on the campaign track. This does not include any tax on wages, social security income and others, raising the price to some 7 billions of dollars during the decade.
The package also allows budgetary increases with some $ 175 billion to pay Trump’s mass deportation operations and for the Ministry of Defense to strengthen military spending.
Everything would be partially paid with steep cuts to domestic programs, including health care, as part of the 2 dollars of discounts described in the GOP version of the Package Chamber, although several GOP senators have reported that they are not willing to go so far.
To extract the costs, the Senate uses an unusual accounting method which does not have the costs of preserving tax reductions of 2017, $ 4.5 billions of dollars, as new expenses, another factor which is in the process of enraging the conservatives of the room.
Two republican senators voted against their package during a night weekend session – Maine Susan Collins senator opposed steep discounts in Medicaid as part of the room, while Kentucky Rand Paul Senator argued that the entire package was based on “fish” mathematics that would add to debt.
The package would also increase the country’s debt limit to allow more loans to pay the bills. Trump wanted the legislators to withdraw the politically difficult issue of the table. With a debt now at 36 billions of dollars, the Treasury Department said that there would be a shortage of funds by August.
But the room and the Senate must also resolve their differences on the limit of the debt. The GOP of the Chamber increases the limit of debt by $ 4 billions, but the GOP of the Senate increased it to 5 billions of dollars so that the congress would only have to review the question after the election in mid-term 2026.
Trump’s trade wars hovering over the debate, the Republicans of the House have slipped a provision in a procedural vote that would prevent measures in the House – as the Senate took – to disapprove of Trump’s prices.
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
