The Republicans advance with the “ Gros’ ” “” “, Trump tax reductions and expense reductions in the middle of the price rate

By Lisa Mascaro

Washington (AP) – After a long wait, the Senate launches an action on the “big and beautiful invoices” of President Donald Trump, tax alternatives and expense reductions at a risky time for the American and global economy.

More than a month after the House Republicans surprised Washington by progressing their framework for Trump’s tax lounge and spending discounts, the Senate Republicans voted on Thursday to start working on their version. The voting of 52-48 paves the way for consecutive nights from the Senate to spread on Friday and weekends.

But work on the package of several dollars takes place while markets in the country and abroad are at the forefront of the vast regime of Trump prices, complicating an already difficult political and procedural enterprise.

The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., opened the room on Thursday saying that they had to start “today” launching into what they hoped to become the GOP signature interior policy package.

Trump says that he is on board and that the Republicans, under the control of the congress, are impatient to show that the party makes progress towards the holding of their campaign promises. After that, it is still long weeks, even months, to go to a final product.

Democrats, as a minority party, do not have the votes to stop the GOP plan. But they intend to use the procedural tools available to extend the process. Democrats argue that Republicans focus on tax lounges for the rich to the detriment of programs and services to millions of Americans who count to obtain assistance in health care, child care, school lunch and other daily needs.

“They are mean, they are mean, they do not care,” said the Democrat chief of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, about the Republicans.

The Senate Democrats are ready to spend the night and the day with the ground debates on the potential cups of the MEDICAID GOP, the programs of veterans, the Doges Cups and the impact of Trump’s prices. “We, tonight and tomorrow, will show who they are,” said Schumer.

Fundamental for the Senate package is to ensure that Trump’s tax reductions, which should expire at the end of the year, are continued and have made a permanent element of the tax code. Senators also plan to add tax reductions offered by Trump on wages, social security income and others.

The Senate package would also strengthen the border security funds of some $ 175 billion to carry out Trump’s mass expulsion campaign, which does not make money, and this would add national security funds for the Pentagon – all the priorities that the GOP of the Senate has nestled in a previous version which was swept by the Republicans of the Chamber.

What is not clear is how all this will be paid, because the hawks of the republican deficit generally require compensation for spending to help defray lost tax revenue and to avoid accumulating on the debt burden of 36 billions of dollars in the country.

While the House Republicans approved their package with 4.5 billions of dollars in tax alternatives and up to 2 dollars of expenditure reductions, the Senate Republicans take a different approach.

The President of the Senate Budget Committee, Lindsey Graham, protects that, as existing Trump’s tax relief is current policy, they are not considered new and do not need to be offset by expense reductions – a democratic approach is compared to “become nuclear” with normal rules. Democrats promising to put the strategy to the test before the Senate parliamentarian.

Instead, the Senate Republicans are considering compensation mainly for any new Trump tax allegiance. Lifting the alarms of the most conservative budgetary hawks, the senators have set a board of approximately $ 4 billion in health budget discounts and other programs – a fraction of the expected price of $ 4 billions for tax lightening.

GOP leaders provide fairs deficit in their own ranks which indicate that the legislation indicates that the cuts can reach up to 2 billions of dollars.

After a vote of Friday evening expected a-rama, with dozens of amendments offered to the package, the senators plan to stay on Saturday if necessary to take a final vote to approve it, sending it to the chamber for the action.

The room and the Senate will finally have to merge their executives into a final product, expected in May, but the intention of the president of the Mike Johnson room to wrap everything by the Memorial Day could prove to be optimistic.

The political environment is uncertain, and the appetite of the public for abrupt budget cuts is tested in real time, with the Department of Effectiveness of the Government of Trump led by the billionaire Elon Musk in the federal offices, licensed thousands of workers and the dropout of the long -standing government – scientific research projects on diseases for school offices for social security, scientist, diseases.

At the same time, the fans of the fans of the room and the Senate, many of which were aligned with the Caucus de Freedom, still put pressure for even more cuts.

Trump told senators publicly and private this week that he would have his back, especially when it comes to defending discounts. In a White House announcing the prices on Wednesday, Trump said that the Senate plan had “its full and total support”.

The president’s abrupt prices threw the world economy in a tailpin Thursday, with stocks worldwide, the American markets paving the way.

The editors of the associated press Leah Askarinam and Kevin Freking contributed to this report.

Originally published: April 3, 2025 at 5:06 p.m.