Donald Trump went to the Capitol on Tuesday to insist that the large republican majority of the Chamber set aside their differences and adopt his major bill to promulgate his tax and immigration priorities.
In a speech to a closed -door meeting of the Republican legislators in the lower chamber of the congress, the president pushed representatives of the districts of the blue states to abandon their requests for a tax and local tax deduction (salt), and also sought to ensure that the moderates of state health, known as the Big Beautiful Bill Act, would covered the health insurance program.
“I think we have an incredible unit. I think we are going to get everything we want, and I think we are going to have a big victory,” said Trump leaving the meeting.
But it is not clear if the President’s exhortations had the effect provided before the deadline on Monday that the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber decided to pass the bill in the Chamber, which the Republicans control by only three votes. After his meeting, at least key legislator said he had been opposed to the bill as it is written, while others have not announced any modification of their position.
“In the current state, I do not support the bill,” said the member of the New York Congress, Mike Lawler, one of the Republicans representing districts of the States led by Democrats who demand a greater deduction of salt.
The next test of the prospects of the bill is scheduled for Wednesday at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, when the rules committee meet for a procedural vote which, if successful, paves the way for examining the measure by the House of Representatives.
The legislation of nearly 1,100 pages is Trump’s absolute priority at the Congress, and would codify several of his campaign promises, in particular to make permanent or prolonged tax reductions promulgated during his first mandate, temporarily putting the taxation of advice and overtime and paying a wall along the border with Mexico and the mass deportees.
To compensate for its costs, the House Republicans approved the reduction of federal federal security programs like Medicaid, which covers poor and low -income Americans, and the additional nutrition aid program (SNAP). But even with these cuts, the invoice should cost 3.8 TN to 2034, which classifies the right tax wrinkles that want to see the measure reduce the government’s significant budget deficit.
Johnson and other Republican leaders have spent weeks attempting their requests with the Blue and Moderate Republicans Beware of the reduction of safety net programs. When he arrived at the Capitol on Tuesday morning, Trump quickly said who he favored negotiations, insisting that “we do not touch” Medicaid and that the cuts would only “waste, fraud and abuse”.
While salt taxes were once fully deductible in federal declarations, the tax reductions that Trump signed in 2017, a ceiling of $ 10,000 imposed. The president said that he opposed the increase in the deduction, because “we do not want to benefit the Democratic governors”.
During his meeting with the legislators: “He was categorical, we must stop screwing. It was the clear message. You have all tinkered, it’s time to get the plane, “said the Southern Dakota Congress, Dusty Johnson, to journalists.
“Ninety-eight percent of this conference is ready to leave. They were enthusiastic. They were swollen by the president, and I think that with the selected, he moved them. I do not yet know that we are there, but it was an extremely impactful meeting. ”
Under the bill, Medicaid would receive a reduction in the budget of $ 715 billion, mainly by imposing work requirements on the beneficiaries. After the meeting, Don Bacon, a moderate Nebraska who had warned against the reduction of Medicaid too deep, pointed out the approval of the bill, saying: “We did as well as we do.”
But David Valadao, whose California central district has one of the major actions of Medicaid recipients on a national level, said that it was “very concerned” by the impact of the cuts.
The Democratic minority is largely powerless to prevent the bill from advancing in the House, and the use by the GOP of the budgetary reconciliation procedure means that the bill cannot be blocked by an obstacle to the Senate. The leader of the minority of the Democratic Chamber Hakeem Jeffries and James McGovern, the classification member of the Rules Committee, called for taking into account the bill to reprogram, noting that it should take place “during the night of the night”.
“It is deeply disturbing that you try to blur this legislation in the throat of the American people. What do you hide else?
The leaders of the GOP of the Chamber launched the president’s visit as a sign to their members that it was time to stop bickering.
The head of the majority, Steve Scalie, told a press conference after the departure of Trump: “President Trump had a strong and clear message to a homogeneous republican conference, and it is after months of long and intense discussions on really important differences and problems, this great bill has passed through the Committee process, and it is time to end the negotiations, to unify the Senate.”
However, it was clear that there are folds to repel. Johnson refused to take up questions at the press conference, saying that he had to leave to “bring together the small sub-groups of the Room Republican Conference and attach the remaining loose extremities. I am very confident that we will be able to do it. ”
