Opposition from House GOP holdouts threatens final passage of “big, beautiful bill”
Washington – The Republican leaders of the Chamber rush to strengthen support for the members of President Trump Massive interior policy bill In the midst of changes to the Senate, while the GOP seeks to approve the final version of the legislation before a deadline of July 4 to obtain the bill at the president’s office.
While the Chamber met Wednesday to take the bill, which crossed the Senate one day earlier, it remained clear if the Republicans have enough support to overcome it. The House must take a key procedural vote before being able to head towards the final adoption, but it is not clear when this vote will take place or if it will pass. The legislators remained stuck during a separate vote for more than an hour on Wednesday afternoon.
The head of the majority of the chamber, Steve Scalie, said that the legislators planned to take front with the procedural vote on Wednesday afternoon, but that they are waiting for some members to return to Washington after the flight delays. These members should arrive “shortly,” the Republican of Louisiana told journalists.
Several members on both sides of the aisle saw their flights canceled or delayed by bad weather when they returned to Washington for the vote. All the Democrats seemed to be there for procedures on Wednesday afternoon. Republicans can only afford three defections if all members are present and vote.
The leaders of the GOP of the house aim to advance quickly Signature legislation On the agenda of Mr. Trump’s second term, which includes accelerated expenditure on border security, defense and energy production and extends billions of dollars in tax reductions, partially offset by substantial reductions in health care and nutrition programs.
But some Republicans of the Chamber, who voted to adopt a previous version of the bill in May, expressed skepticism about the changes in the Senate.
The potentials, including the moderates and the members of the Conservative House Freedom Caucus, met Mr. Trump on Wednesday while the White House put pressure on the Republicans of the Chamber to pass the bill through the finish line. But Gop Andy Harris representative of Maryland, president of the Conservative House Freedom Caucus, told journalists to expect the procedural vote to fail in the afternoon.
The Chamber’s Rules Committee has advanced the Senate changes to the bill overnight, setting up the action on the prosecution. The representatives of Gop Ralph Norman from South Carolina and Chip Roy of Texas joined the Democrats in the panel to oppose the rule. The two appear among the group of Carlacots which are likely to oppose the procedural vote in the full chamber.
“What the Senate has done is unacceptable,” said Norman. “I will vote against this here and I will vote against him on the ground until we were going well.”
Chamber Mike Johnson, a Louisiana republican, spent weeks arguing with his senate counterparts so as not to modify the major modifications to the version of the bill which adopted the lower chamber into a single vote in May. He said that the changes in the Senate bill “have gone a little further than many of us would have preferred it.”
The bill adopted by the Senate includes Smart Medicaid cutsA higher increase in the limit of debt and changes in green energy energy policies and the state and local tax deduction.
Other controversial provisions which had to face a discharge in the two chambers, including the sale of public land in nearly a dozen states, a 10 -year moratorium on states regulating artificial intelligence and a excise tax In the renewable energy industry, the Senate bill were withdrawn before returning to the Chamber.
Johnson said on Wednesday that “we are working on everyone’s problems and we assure that we can get this vote” in the middle of the opposition. He added that he and the president are working to “convince everyone that it is the best product we can produce”.
“I feel good where we are and where we are heading,” added Johnson.
Harris told journalists on Wednesday that the president should recall the Senate in the city to conclude an agreement on changes to the bill. GOP leaders, however, said that the Chamber would vote on the Senate bill “as is”.
If the Chamber makes changes to the bill, the revisions would require the approval of the Senate or would force the two chambers to go to the conference committee to flatten a final product on which the two bodies could agree, dating the timely adoption of the bill.
Representative Dusty Johnson, a Southern Dakota Republican, seemed optimistic after the White House meetings with retained on Wednesday, saying that “Donald Trump is closer” and adding that “members move to yes”.
“I know there are members who think they will vote not right now,” said the Southern Dakota Republican. “I think that when the choice becomes a failure or a passage, they will understand that the passage beats the hell of failure.”
In a social post of truth on Wednesday morning, Trump urged the GOP to make the bill, saying to his party: “Do not leave the radical democrats who left the Democrats.”
“We have all the cards and we will use them,” he said.
The GOP representative, Virginia Foxx, from North Caroline, also urged the Republicans to the Chamber to obtain the Bill on the President’s Office Board on Wednesday.
“President Trump has his pen in hand and waits for the house to finish his work,” said Foxx. “We have defended this legislation for months, guided it through the appropriate processes, and now we are on the line of a yard.”
Meanwhile, with few levers to fight against the adoption of the bill, the Democrats of the Chamber spoke forcefully against the legislation.
“We will not stay there and will not watch Trump and his billionaire friends destroy this country without leading a hell of combat,” said Democratic representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, calling the bill of “massive betrayal of the American people”.
Jeffries said that “every Democrat in the House will vote” hell not “against this one, a great ugly bill”, while adding that “everything we need, they are four republicans in the chamber to join us to defend their voters who will obviously suffer from this bill”. Democratic leaders have called some Republicans by name, including representatives Rob Bresnahan and Scott Perry from Pennsylvania and representatives David Valadao and Young Kim by California.
“It is unacceptable, it is unacceptable, it is not American, and the Democrats of the House are committed to you that we are going to do everything in our power to stop it,” said Jeffries. “All we need is four Republicans, only four.”
Emily Hung, Nikole Killion,
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