Washington – While the Republicans of the House rush to correct the votes to adopt a massive bill on the agenda of President Donald Trump, their senate counterparts clearly indicate that the emerging package will not steal as it is written when it reaches them.
Senator John Hoeven, RN.D., was categorical that the outgoing product of various committees in the Chamber cannot adopt the Senate as it is currently.
“No. We are going to make changes,” said Hoeven. “We talked about with the house and there are many things we agree on. … But there will be changes in a number of areas.”
This would not surprise the members of the room to learn that their colleagues in the Senate want to put their own fingerprints on the final package of several dollars. But the Republican senators have already started to identify a variety of provisions insofar as the chamber which they target from revisions – from Medicaid concerns to the funding of energy specific to spectrum policy and global red ink.
Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Suled against the emerging legislation of the House this week, saying that it would explode the American budget deficit.
“I don’t see any scenario where it will be neutral with deficit. This is my problem,” he told NBC News. “According to my calculation, this will increase the deficit by $ 4 billions.”
“The amount they seek to reduce expenses is around 1.3%. It is a rounding error. It is completely inadequate,” said Johnson insists that federal expenses are at least lowered to pre-pale levels.
Republicans have 53 senators, which means that they can only lose three votes before the bill collapsed in the House because they have no hope of winning democrats. They have already lost the Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Who wants more steep cuts. And Democrats make up the heat of the GOP attempts to reduce energy financing in the law on the reduction of inflation, highlighting the economic and national security benefits of the law of 2022.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, led a letter to the leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune, RS.D., last month with three other Republicans warning that “the end” of certain tax credits on clean energy laid in 2022 “would create an uncertainty, to complete our capital economy, long-term projects planning and the creation of employment and through our extensive economy ”.
The Chamber’s Committee responsible for writing the tax provisions of the package seeks to repeal significant subsidies from electric vehicles and aims to eliminate other incentives from the own energy tax that has been adopted in the Inflation Reduction Act, which was promulgated by the president of the time, Joe Biden.
Wednesday, Murkowski told NBC News She, John Curtis, R-Utah, Thom Tillis, R-N-N-CA and Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, “said that we had to adopt a prudent approach to energy tax credits and ensure that we do not lose on some of the good investments that we have built.”
Senator Josh Hawley, R-MO., Also warned against the Medicaid cuts while the Bill of the Chamber is seeking to impose work requirements and financing limits of providers who have been disseminated by criticism.
“I will not support Medicaid services discounts on Tuesday,” Hawley told NBC News, adding that he had “coins” of the House bill because of what it would mean for rural hospitals of his state.
He wrote later on X: “I do not want to see rural hospitals close their doors because the funding has been reduced. I also don’t like the idea of a hidden tax on workers. This is why I am not on this house bill in its current form.”
Hawley’s concerns are shared by Murkowski as well as Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, who voted against the budgetary framework last month, invoking concerns about Medicaid cups harming his state.
Another problem that the Republicans of the Senate wish to revise are the provisions that the President of the Brett Energy and Trade Chamber Guthrie, R-KY., Declared to renew “the Spectrum Auction of Federal Communications Commission and provide resources to modernize the federal information technology systems” and save $ 88 billion.
“I had the chance to look at the language on the question of the spectrum. It must clearly be corrected,” said Senator Mike Rounds, Rs.d.
Senator Deb Fischer, R-Neb., Said that politics should “go much further, much further” and that it “cannot accept it because it came out of the” Energy and Trade Committee of the Chamber.
President Mike Johnson, R -La., Hopes to direct the measure through the budget committee of the chamber on Friday and spend the entire bill in the chamber – with a few changes – before the Memorial Day.
Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., who faces a re -election next year in a competitive state, said that the Senate will have to review the language of the Chamber on Medicaid cuts, clean energy money and other policies before making a decision.
Tillis also said that the Senate was not enthusiastic about the House bill to increase the ceiling on the state and the local tax deduction to $ 30,000, compared to $ 10,000. Unlike the room, there are no GOP senators in high tax states where “salt” is a big problem.
“I think this is an area where we are going to need consideration,” said Tillis.
