House works at night while the Republicans are advancing on Trump’s great bill

Washington (AP) – Tax reductions Account to more than 5 dollars – but also considerable reductions in Medicaid health careFood coupons and Green energy strategies To combat climate change – faced a net debate while the legislators of the House have traveled the hearings marathon on the Republicans on the Republicans’ “Large and beautiful bill.”

Tensions have increased and the emotions swallowed while the hours were hanging out early Wednesday morning. The republicans of the house work to push President Donald Trump signature legislative package Through a glove of committees and growing opposition from Democrats, defense groups and even suspicious Republicans themselves.

From the start, a meeting was immediately disrupted by demonstrators crying out what the best democrat in the panel qualified the “cruel” cups of Medicaid.

“People feel very strong because they know they lose their health care,” said representative Frank Pallone, Dn.J., within the energy and commerce committee on Tuesday afternoon.

And he went. While midnight passed, two panels were still going, dealing with more than 100 amendments of democrats who were largely failed, while the Republicans walked forward with their plan.

It is the greatest political and legislative debate for the Republicans who have directed the congress since Trump’s first mandate, setting up a confrontation that defines the career on the country’s priorities, all at a time of economic discomfort with the Trump trade war and other uncertainties.

Asset, Speaking in a forum in the Middle Eaststruck an ambitious agreement, saying that the congress was “about to pass the greatest tax reduction and the reduction in the regulation of American history”.

“If we get this, it will be like a rocket for our country,” said Trump in Saudi Arabia.

But to be sure, there are many more steps before the package becomes law.

Basically, the objective of the GOP legislators is to extend – and to improve – tax reductions approved in 2017, adding the president’s campaign promises in 2024 for No tax on advice, social security income and the interests of car loans.

There is also a larger standard deduction, $ 32,000 for couples, a boost for children’s tax credit and a potentially higher ceiling of $ 30,000 on state and local tax deductions, known as salt, which is still in negotiation.

This is offset of $ 1.9 billion of economies largely from the decline in green energy tax credits, for a net statement of 3.7 billions of dollars in cost during the decade, according to the most recent estimates – as well as billions of savings of more net safety reductions

In addition, Republicans strengthen the spending of their GOP priorities, with $ 350 billion for Trump’s mass deportation plans and funding for the Pentagon.

At the same time, the Republicans seek to affect lost tax revenues and to avoid soaring national deficits with another objective of the GOP, which reduces federal expenditure.

Republicans offer discounts of nearly $ 800 billion during the decade of the Medicaid health care program, which is used by 70 million Americans; $ 290 billion with food aid in the additional nutritional aid program, known as Snap; and others.

Nestled in the packaging is a handful of Other provisions important for the White House – including one that would allow the Trump administration to draw the Tax exemption status groups, he says he supports terrorists, send a thrill Civil society organizations Who warns that it is a way to punish adversaries.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Republicans accused of “blocking another GOP tax scam which benefits the rich to the detriment of the programs and services used by many Americans.

President Mike Johnson is determined to push the package through the room by Memorial Day, sending it to the Senate, where the Republicans work on their own version.

Johnson and his management team have constantly conferred with Trump at each stage.

Representative Jason Smith, republican president of the Ways & Means Tax Writing committee, said he met Trump on Friday and reviewed the “line” tax provisions.

“He was very happy with what we are delivering,” said Smith.

On Tuesday, the last three committees of the room working on the package launched which would become long meetings to train on some of the largest components.

At the beginning, the Brett representative Guthrie, the republican president of the energy and trade committee, prohibited the indictment legislators of colleagues of “lying”.

As a minority party at the Congress, Democrats are unable to stop the bill by themselves, but have used procedural tools to slow down the process.

The Democrats have set up posters of voters with the words “Medicaid Matters”. One, the representative Marc Veasey of Texas, put one on the speaker to share his history – until his testimony is excluded from the order.

The American Capitol Police said 26 people had been arrested in the office of the office of the Rayburn house where the panel met.

Estimates from the non -partisan congress budget office show that at least 7.6 million people may lose health insurance with Medicaid cuts, and potentially more with the changes in the affordable care law. Most of the time, changes in health care involve imposing new work requirements for assistance beneficiaries from January 1, 2029.

But the Republican representative Gary Palmer of Alabama said that his team was trying to improve the health care program by eliminating waste and ineffectiveness.

“We are trying to save Medicaid,” he said.

In the way and means committee, the Democrats offered amendments in the night – to provide loss of taxpayers from Trump pricing policies, improve a children’s tax credit and others which were all rejected by the Republicans.

While the Agriculture Committee began its work, CBO also told legislators that SNAP work requirements would reduce the participation of around 3 million people in an average month.

Republicans are trying to solve dissent in their own ranks, which shows the upcoming pressure points.

Smith has suggested that certain changes could be brought to the bill to win the legislators at New York tax and California who believe that the proposed salt ceiling is inadequate.

“There is a little room for maneuver there to try to deliver additional priorities,” said Smith.

But representative Nick Lalota, Rn.y., said that after an hour -long meeting with the speaker and the staff they were “still far from an agreement”.

With the thinnest majority of the room, Johnson has only a few voices to lose, and finds himself in the resistance of his party, including the legislators in the Senate, which also has fine gop margins.

The legislators run for a deadline of July 4 to ensure that the entire package is sent to the Trump office on time to also avoid a dangerous debt defect. The secretary of the Treasury said that federal tax revenues were short and that the congress must increase the expenditure limit to continue to pay the bills.

The package includes an increase of $ 4 billions at the debt limit of 36 billions of dollars in the country, enough to finance operations after the mid-term elections of 2026.

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The editors of the Associated Press Darlene Superville and Leah Askarinam contributed to this report.