Trump’s sweeping bill looms large over Democrats and Republicans as they head for recess | US politics
Earlier this summer, republican legislators gathered around Donald Trump and applauded while he was sitting in front of an office outside the White House and put his signature on what he calls his “big, big and beautiful bill”.
But there have been few blows for Mike Flood this week when the member of the Republican Congress appeared before an auditorium of his voters in Nebraska to boast the advantages of tax legislation and spend – just huae and prices.
“From where I sit, there was a lot of disinformation on the bill,” said Flood, like the public – some of whom had been encouraged to attend by local democrats – yelled.
“If you are able to work and you are valid, you have to work. If you choose not to work, you do not get free health care,” said Flood later, diving into the controversial taxation of the work project for work requirements for many Medicaid registrants, the health program for poor and disabled Americans. The heckling has not intensified.
Trump’s bill is looming to senators and representatives of the two parties while they disperse across the country for the August of Congress recess. Signed by Trump during the holidays of July 4, the sprawling legislation extends lower tax rates than its first mandate, creates new exemptions aimed at the voters of the working class and finances its mass deportations of immigrants.
The Republicans see him as the quintessence of the mantra “promises, promised, held” of the president, while for the Democrats, he presents an opportunity to return from voters of political nature banned them during the elections of last year.
At the heart of their argument is the reductions in the Medicaid bill and other security net programs, its promulgation of tax provisions from which the rich should be the most advantage, and its overall price, which should reach 3.4 TN in the next 10 years.
Democrats also plan to campaign on what the bill is not doing. The Republicans who wrote refused to take advantage of the possibility of extending the subsidies to bonuses paid by persons who receive insurance through the Act respecting affordable care (ACA) – which means that millions of Americans can find unaffordable health care when they expired at the end of the year.
“Between the Cups of Medicaid and the Cups of the ACA, our hospitals are considering a real phenomenon of people entering their ERS without insurance,” said Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin this week during a town hall in Michigan – a state that Trump won last year.
“When you receive this letter, when it arrives in your post box, I want you to understand that this increase in your private insurance is due to the cuts that Donald Trump decided to do just in the last month here, ok. There is a cause and an effect.”
The Republicans, of which only one handful have held the town hall since the start of recess, argue that it is the Democrats who will face difficult issues at home for their unanimous rejection of the bill. Voters will be won by the tax relief of the legislation for advice, overtime and interests on American cars, larger deductions for taxpayers aged 65 and over, and the expansion of the application of immigration, according to the party, while Medicaid and Snap will finally benefit from it because the measurement, they claim, suppress “waste, fraud and abuse” stricter work and eligibility checks.
“The Republicans first put the Americans of the working class. The only major bill established this concrete image for the mid-term of 2026, putting the Republicans in attack and giving voters a clear and common sense contrast,” said the National Committee of the Republican Congress in a memory. The group has appointed 26 districts of the Chamber where he thinks that the Republicans can win, while his opponent, the campaign committee of the Democrat Congress (DCCC), aims at 35 seats.
The main battle for next year will be for the control of the House of Representatives, which the GOP controls by a margin which should shrink at only three seats once recently created vacancies are provided.
Democrats see reasons to believe that their campaign strategy against the bill is solid. Recent surveys from KFF and Quinnipiac University show that the legislation is unpopular, while Trump sees his own approval ratings. The GOP is also struggling with the disorderly fallout caused by the requests of Trump supporters for the publication of files related to the sexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
However, some in the party say that taking into account their cause will be delicate because of how the measure is written. Although it forces the biggest reductions in history in Medicaid and the additional nutritional aid program (SNAP), these come into force only after the day of next year.
“The number one mission for us as a democrats is to educate voters on the real impacts of the bill and continue to call the Republicans that if it was so important to make these cups in Medicaid and other programs that occur in part in two years, why are they not doing it now? Why don’t they do it now? ” said Jane Kleeb, vice-president of the National Democratic Committee (DNC) and the party leader in Nebraska, where the headquarters of the Chamber around Omaha should be the site of a fervent race to replace the Republican Retirement Don Bacon.
“We all know the answer, no, because they want to win some of these races in 26”.
Brian Jackson, president of the Democratic Party in Ingham County, Michigan, said that he was not concerned about the timing of the mining bill to their file against Tom Barrett, a member of the republican congress of the first mandate. In an interview, he described an atmosphere of uncertainty in the swing district created by the reductions of imminent benefits, Trump prices and the freeze of research by its administration, which affected the local Michigan State.
“The concern dates back to the global culture of fear and the unknown, and it is simply horrible for the economy, it is horrible for jobs, the automotive industry. So you know, Medicaid is only one of the many symptoms of a Washington out of touch and its impact on people’s daily life,” he said.
In Kern County in California, the Democrats are preparing for a campaign against David Valadao, a member of the Republican Congress and a resilient opponent whose district has one of the highest rates of registration in Medicaid in the country. Although he voted for Trump’s bill after giving mixed messages on her cups in Medicaid, the president of the local Democratic Party, Christian Romo, warned that their delayed impact could frustrate the party’s efforts.
“It will devastate this community,” said Romo. But with the arrangements that only take effect after the elections, “do people really feel the implications?
The best Democrats in Congress argue that even if the cuts themselves are delayed, the voters will feel their disturbances to come.
“Companies make decisions because they know that there will be less income due to a dollars Billion in Medicaid discounts, the greatest reduction in Medicaid in the history of this country,” said Pete Aguilar, president of the Democratic Caucus of the Chamber.
“Thus, health care premiums will increase, this will occur early, insurers will also make these decisions, and hospitals will have to face difficult decisions about what their future looks like.”
Christopher Nicholas, a veteran republican political consultant based in Pennsylvania, where the DCCC seeks to oust four Republicans, warned that the Democrats could not count on the Cups of Medicaid to bring them back to the majority.
“While America continues to stratify itself, to self-select itself in distinct districts and communities, you will have many republicans who do not have as much exhibition in the Medicaid program, and you will have had a lot represented by Democrats in more urban areas that have more exposure to the Medicaid program,” he said.
“I think the Democrats are far from their skis, thinking that it alone will bring them to the Promised Land next year.”
