Awful One Big Beautiful Bill ties up the upper chamber
It took 5 minutes of 16 hours to the American Senate when reading the clerks to say aloud each word of each sentence of each paragraph of all 940 pages of a large bill by Donald Trump, a concocion that should not pass.
Experience was worth it, because in the interval hours, the non -partisan congress budget office published a report that the bill would accumulate on an additional 3.3 billions of dollars to the national debt over a decade, almost a Billion of more than 2.4 billions of dollars in red ink which adopted the Chamber last month on the close mass of 215 to 214 Marge.
What was also achieved during the night from the end of the evening from Saturday evening to Sunday afternoon, it was the end of the road to Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican who voted against the bill of the bill and wraised Trump promising a primary of the GOP next year. Tillis therefore abandoned re -election.
It is a shame that Tillis’ decision to act as his conscience dictates and opposed the bill in January, when he was firmly against the confirmation of Pete Hegseth unfit to be Secretary of Defense. When Trump threatened Tillis, he gave up and voted to confirm Hegseth, making a 50-50 equality and allowing vice-president JD Vance to have the decisive vote and to sel the pentagon with the host of the Fox News weekend.
Vance was on site at the Capitol on Saturday in case he needs to break an equality again, because it seemed that Tillis was joined by two other Republicans, Rand Paul and Ron Johnson. But Johnson gave in and the debate request adopted 51-49 and Vance was not necessary.
By looking at the normal procedures on C-SPAN2, a spectator would soon understand that a large part of what the room is doing by unanimous consent; “Without objection” is generally heard of the president of the majority, the head of the party floor, takes the legislation.
And as it is standard practice, after the debate to debate a great magnificent bill, the head of the Republican majority John Thune said: “Mr. President, I ask for the consent that reading supposedly.”
The chief of the Democratic minority, Chuck Schumer, opposed, and the whole bill must have been pronounced by reading clerks, who must read at a certain volume, not too strong or sweet, and at a certain speed, not too slow or fast
From 11:08 p.m. on Saturday, everything came out. The senators, apart from the president, were not there to listen, but if they were, they would have heard of 1 billion of dollars of Medicaid discounts, causing 11.8 million other Americans joining not insured ranks by 2034. They would have heard of giant tax reductions for those of the top of the economy. They would have heard of billion billions and billions of new deficits and debt.
At the end of reading, as well as the career of the Thom Tillis Senate, began the long hours of debate on the ground, then a lot of voting on calls on unlimited amendments.
Why the rush? All because Trump wants to do this by July 4. But even if the Senate pushes this waste, this modified version should then gain approval of the room, where it is difficult to see the Conservatives accept an additional debt of 1 Billion of additional dollars.
Will these conservatives listen to their conscience or listen to Trump’s requests?
