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The Senate voted to advance the signature budget of President Donald Trump and spending invoices on the ground on Saturday evening, by releaseing a key obstacle while the Republicans seek to respect the deadline requested by Trump of July 4 – despite opposition within the GOP and former adviser Trump Elon Musk.
President Donald Trump asked Congress to adopt his spending bill before July 4.
Key facts
The Senate voted to advance the bill on Saturday evening after a vote of 51-49, with two Republicans (Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., and Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky.) Joining Democrats opposing this decision.
The bill will now be exposed to a debate on the floor and to vote on the changes that take place before a final vote, although Trump immediately won the victory after the procedure, calling it a “big victory” in a Post on social truth.
The modification process, often called “voting-a-rama”, could last the hours, because the Democrats should delay the vote for as long as possible, with an unlikely final vote on Monday.
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., also introduced another obstacle on Saturday after having announced that he would need a “complete reading” of the 940 pages of the bill from start to finish, a process that could take hours and which was still underway at 10:00 a.m. Had on Sunday morning.
Friday, the Republicans of the Senate published the latest version of the expenditure bill, supporting the measure for a final vote which could succeed even if three GOP members vote against.
The Republicans competed in the provisions linked to the Medicaid cups, an increase in the debt ceiling and tax deductions in recent weeks, with the decision of the parliamentarian of the Elizabeth Macdonough Senate against the MEDICAID provisions which sought to draw the federal program of health care of unpaid migrants and affirmative care between the sexes.
Senator Susan Collins, a moderate republican from Maine who still voted to advance the bill, said that she would table several amendments, Say journalists Saturday “if the bill has not yet changed, I would look at the bill.”
Musk, who had a recent Fall with Trump On the bill, weighed Again Saturday afternoon, calling him “completely crazy and disgusting” and saying “will destroy millions of jobs in America and will cause immense strategic damage to our country!”
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What is in Trump’s expense bill?
The mega bill of Trump offers 4 billions of dollars in tax reductions and calls for an extension of the cuts made by Trump during his first mandate. It sculpts $ 46.5 billion for the construction of the president’s border wall and more than $ 15 billion for border security. Reduction of student loan The reimbursement options are also included, as are new or more expensive costs for immigration services, including work authorization applications. Americans will be able to deduct up to $ 25,000 in tips until 2028 under the bill, which also creates a $ 12,500 deduction for overtime. Large Medicaid reductions worth hundreds of billions of dollars were proposed in the version of the bill of the bill to compensate for the costs of the proposed tax reductions, but some of these efforts were blocked by the Senate of the Senate this week. Conversely, children’s tax credits should increase under $ 2,000 to $ 2,000 to $ 2,000 per child in parallel with inflation adjustments to the amount of credit after 2025.
Who opposed the bill?
While Democrats are about to completely oppose the bill, some Republicans have disputed their provisions and cannot be on board for the vote. Paul said NBC News Friday, he would be likely to oppose the bill if the increase in the debt ceiling was deleted. Collins and Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had not explicitly said how they would vote before the Senate concession on Saturday, although they were both actively opposed to a provision of the bill according to which the funding of Medicaid of abortion suppliers like Planned Parenthood. Senator Ron Johnson, R -Wis., Told Fox News on Saturday that he would vote against the initial motion to debate the 940 -page bill, saying that he would need more time to review the updated version published Friday evening – although he ended up voting to move forward. Tillis said in a statement On Saturday, he will not support the bill on his modifications to Medicaid.
Key
One of the main concerns concerning the expenditure bill is linked to its potential impact on national debt. The Budget Office of the Non-Supportance Congress said that in a report this month, the bill Increase federal deficit From 2.8 billions of dollars by 2034, noting that the economic growth that comes from the measure would be offset by a leap in interest payments over the next decade. Trump and Republican leaders said their self-imposed deadline could be missed. The president, who threatened to draw the recess of July 4 from the Congress if the bill is not adopted by then, said on Friday that the deadline was “not the end of all”. Chamber Mike Johnson, R-La., Said on Friday that the deadline may be missed, but noted: “I don’t even want to accept this as an option at the moment.”
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Trump tax cuts would increase the deficit by 2.8 billions of dollars, suggests new estimates (Forbes)
