Senate aims to hold initial vote today on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”
Washington – The Senate plans to organize a key test vote on the “Big and Beautiful Bill” by President Trump later Saturday, even if it is not clear if the tax and expenses measure has enough support to raise it on the obstacle.
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, a republican of the southern Dakota, said on Friday that he was not sure that he had the votes to advance the bill, because the upper Chamber awaited decisions as to a certain number of provisions respected at the rules of reconciliation of the Senate, which allow the Republicans to adopt the bill with a simple majority. The main political disputes have also remained.
The Senate Republicans only published the final version of their bill on Friday evening, giving senators shortly to digest it before taking an initial procedural vote necessary to evolve towards final adoption.
Trump put pressure on the congress to send him the sprawling package – which includes tax reductions and funding for his immigration and defense priorities – by the July 4 party.
In the bill, the Republicans have proposed reduction funding for Medicaid, which provides health insurance for low -income and disabled people, and benefits under the additional nutritional aid program – or coupons – to help pay these priorities.
During last week, the Senate parliamentarian determined The fact that some of the most controversial measures of the package have violated a rule that governs the reconciliation process, which requires that legislation only understands provisions that have a direct impact on federal spending. Decisions have ordered the Republicans to remove these sections from the package or rewrite them.
Meanwhile, in the vote, the disputes concerning the discounts of Medicaid spending, the tax deduction of the state and local and a planned increase in the ceiling of the debt still persisted among the Republicans.
House Republicans barely passing A version of the bill in May. And the lower room should be called back to Washington to vote on the version of the Senate if it survives the upper room in the coming days. But the Républicains of the Chamber warned that the major changes made by the Senate have put its ability to start the room in danger.
