By Kevin Freking, Associated Press
Washington (AP) – The Republicans narrowly obtained their budgetary plan on the finish line. Now comes the difficult part.
The resolution adopted this week was only a first step which allows the Republicans to write legislation that they can pass on the congress without democratic support. Then, they begin to create a final bill with enough expenses of spending to satisfy those who are right while not counting the prospects for re -election of more vulnerable legislators whose voters rely on key safety net programs.
With thin majorities in the House and Senate, the Republicans can afford to lose almost no vote on their side of the aisle while they produced legislation, giving each lever legislator on the process.
“He will take us all to do so,” said the head of the majority of the room, Steve scalizes, R-La.
The coming road is intimidating.
Republicans are determined to extend the individual tax discounts that were approved during the first term of President Donald Trump before expiring at the end of the year. But they intend to make the legislation much more than that, by potentially promulgating a multitude of tax reductions that Trump promised during the campaign, as without income tax on advice and overtime.
And tax reductions are only half of the equation. The chamber conservatives gave the budgetary plan the final votes necessary for the passage Thursday after having declared that they have received leadership insurance in the two chambers they would work to have a final product with at least 1.5 billion of dollars of expenditure – forcing changes to federal programs, including Medicaid, which could prove to be difficult to support for certain parties.
“The difficulties that the Republicans have been confronted so far are only a glow of what will happen,” said Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer.
The representative Max Miller, R-Ohio, detects a difficult fight for the Republicans. He said that Trump clearly said he did not want any benefits of benefits for those who obtain health insurance coverage via Medicaid, which could conflict with the desire that certain conservatives have for high spending reductions.
“If it’s this Rocky now, it will only get worse from now on if the speaker is unable to get the whole online conference,” said Miller.
Democrats have supervised the debate as Republicans who seek to reduce key government programs so that they can make tax reductions that mainly help richer households. This is a message that the Democrats will hammer the house leading to the mid-term elections of 2026.
“At this stage, they are all worried about the primaries and they are concerned about Elon’s money, but they should also worry about a general election,” said representative Jim McGovern, D-Mass., Referring to the ally and billionaire advisor to Trump, Elon Musk. “I think it will be very difficult for a moderate republican, if it is still, to be able to vote for it and to go home and to defend it.”
Some Republicans have also clearly told the leaders of the GOP before Thursday’s budgetary vote that they will closely monitor Medicaid changes in the final bill.
“It was a question of ensuring that there is a clear understanding here that there is a group of members who will not reduce the advantages of the most vulnerable elders and New Yorkers who count on Medicaid,” said representative Nicole Maliotakis, Rn.Y.
Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is ready to be re-elected next year, said that she had also made her leadership position known.
“I couldn’t make my position on Medicaid Cuts clearer,” she said. “I will not support the cuts that affect low -income families, disabled people, low -income elderly, rural hospitals.”
Republicans say they focus on instilling the work requirements for valid beneficiaries and more rigorous eligibility assessments. But Democrats say that Republicans cannot generate savings discussed without also reducing advantages.
Meanwhile, the Republicans see the reductions in the individual and inheritance tax were adopted in the first term of Trump as a key to their electoral success next year. The Chamber’s Road and Meaning Committee indicates that a family of four people earning $ 80,610 per year, median income in the United States, would see a tax increase of $ 1,695 if the tax cuts are not extended.
The Republicans have spent the past few years to blame the administration of President Joe Biden for having increased debt, and a key test will be the number of people who keep this concentration when they seek to extend and extend tax reductions.
A recent estimate of the Mixed Commission on tax projects which will extend the 2017 tax reductions will add 5.5 billions of dollars over the next decade during the interest, and 4.6 billions of dollars without interest. In addition to that, the addition of Trump’s campaign promises informed the price of $ 7.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.C., said that he would argue to divide the measure into two bills of reconciliation if the Republicans took too long to access a final product.
“I will say separating it because they need money for the border yesterday and they also need money for the DOD,” said Graham, referring to the Ministry of Defense.
The president of the room, Mike Johnson, said that he was looking forward to the challenge and that there was a lot of work to come.
“The American people are counting on us,” said Johnson.
Representative Tom Cole, R-Okla., Said he was convinced that a final bill will pass with the house winning the most important ruptures in the scope of taxes and spending reductions.
“I bet you will fold rather than inflict the highest increase in tax in American history on their voters,” said Cole about the Senate. “And two thirds of them, with all the respect I do, are not on the ballot of voting next time. … while everyone here is at stake. And our majority is much more in line than their majority is.”
The writers of the personnel of the Associated Press, Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro and Stephen Groves contributed to this report.
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