Washington (AP) – Senate Republican said President Donald Trump Big Tax break and spending deduction bill To pass on Tuesday on Tuesday, carrying forward the previous opposition from the Democrats and rank his own GOP after overnight session.
Sudden results reduced abnormally stress Weekend of work In Capital, the President’s signature legislative priority approval or tettering on the edge of collapse. Finally that Tally was 50-50, Vice President JD Vance cast a tie-breaking vote.
Three Republican Senator – Thom Tilis of Northern CarolinaMen’s Susan Colins and Kentki’s Rand Paul – joined all the Democrats in voting against it.
“Finally we got work,” South Dakota’s Senate Majority Leader John Theun Said later.
The difficulty for the Republican, who has the majority of hold in the Congress, is not expected to go to wrestling the bill at this point. The package now goes back home, where Chairman Mike Johnson The senators had warned that their chamber had already approved. But the Senate made changes, especially in the Medicade, putting further more problems at risk. House GOP leaders vowed to place it on Trump’s desk by the time limit of July.
This is an important moment for the President and his party, as they are consumed by the 940-hit. “A big beautiful bill act,” As Democrats were formally titled before the Democrats filed an amendment to snatch the name, and invested their political capital in taking the GOP power to the power of power in Washington.
Trump admitted that it is “very complex stuff”, as he Left White House for Florida,
“I don’t want to go very crazy with the cut,” he said. “I don’t like the cut.”
The amendment begins as a regular but labor-based day of voting, in a process called Vote-e-Ram, a round-fourth slog was split in a round-fourth slog as the Republican leaders were buying time to sideline support.
The droneing roll call in the chamber took a frenzied action to stabilize the bill. Between exhaustion, grimal-composed scenes played on and out of the Senate floor.
Thyun worked around the clock, which is strict for the last-minute agreements between those at their party, between which millions of people will be left without care and their most conservative flanks to deduct the bill for the medicid, who want to cut the status to reduce the deficit with tax cuts.
GOP leaders did not have additional space, with narrow prominions. Thuen cannot lose more than three Republican senators, and two – Tilis, who warned that millions of people would lose access to Medicade Health Care, and Paul, who oppose the increase in debt limit by $ 5 trillion – already had already already already already already Indicated opposition,
The attention quickly turned to two other major senators, Alaska and Lisa Murkovski of Colins, who also expressed concern about health care cuts, as well as insisted on stator cuts of the loose alliance of four conservative GOP senators.
Mercowski especially became the subject of GOP leadership meditation, as they were sitting near him for conversation. He was nervous for more than an hour behind the chamber with others, scribbling notes on paper.
Everyone’s eyes were on Paul when she returned from the journey of Thune’s office with a surprising offer, who could win her vote. According to two people familiar with a private meeting, he suggested to reduce the increase of the bill in the loan range and gave an oblivion to discuss it.
New York’s Senate Democratic leader Chak Shumor said that “Republican is in trouble because they know that the bill is so unpopular.”
an analysis From Nonpartison Congress budget office It was found that 11.8 million Americans would become unaffected by 2034 without any work if the bill was made law. Cobo Said that the package would lack about $ 3.3 trillion in the decade.
Pressure made from all sides. Billionaire Elon Musk said that those who voted for the package “should” hang their heads “and warned that he would campaign against them. But Trump also turned his hand against GOP holdouts including Tilis, who suddenly announced his decision in the weekend Not to look for reunion,
Emphasis on senator changes
Some Republicans appeared completely satisfied, as the last package, either emerged in the House or Senate.
Coalins fought to include $ 50 billion for a new rural hospital fund, in which GOP senators worried that the bill’s medicade provider cut would be disastrous and forced them to shut down.
While its amendment for the fund was rejected, the provision was inserted into the final bill. Still he did not vote.
The main senator said that he was happy that funding was added to the funding, “But my difficulties with the bill go far beyond that.”
And Murkowski called the decision -making process “agoning”.
He left Alaska and other states from some food stamp cuts, but his efforts to reduce medicid reimbursement decreased. He voted yes.
What is in big bill
All said, the Senate bill includes $ 4.5 trillion in tax deduction, according to the latest CBO analysis, permanent Trump’s 2017 ratesWhich will end at the end of the year if the Congress fails to work, while adding new people, in which they launched the campaign No tax on tips,
Will roll back billions of dollars in Senate package Green Energy Tax CreditWhich Democrats warned that it would erase wind and solar investment across the country. It imposes $ 1.2 trillion in cuts, massively Medicaid And Ration cardBy implementing the needs of work on competent people, including some parents and old Americans, the sign-up eligibility is more stringent and changing federal reimbursement for states.
Additionally, the bill will provide an infusion of $ 350 billion Border and national securityFor exile, some of them paid for the new fees paid to the immigrants.
Paul said, “Such a beautiful bill has not passed.”
Democrats fight all day and night
Unable to stop the passage of March, the Democrats tried to get the process out, including reading the weekend of the full bill.
Some of the democratic amendments won support from some Republican, although almost no one was passed. In modern times, one of such long sessions was considered more.
Washington’s Sen Patty Murray, the appropriation committee rankings Democrat, expressed special concern about the accounting method used by Republican, stating that Tram’s first term is now a “current policy” and the cost of expanding them should not be counted towards losses.
She said that “Magic Math” would not try to balance her domestic books with Americans.
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Associated Press Writors Joy Captain, Darlen Superville, Sewing Min Kim and Kevin Fraking contributed to the report.
Lisa Masaro, Mary Clair Jalonic and Matte Brown, Associated Press
