Senate Republicans narrowly pass Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill

After hours of impasse, the Republicans of the American Senate narrowly adopted the Mega-Bill of Donald Trump on taxes and expenses, which means that the proposed legislation has erased one of its main obstacles.

The One Big Beautiful Bill act was adopted with the vice-president JD Vance, who voted a refined vote after more than 24 hours of debate.

He now returns home or in the lower room, where he still faces more opposition. An earlier version was erased by the Républicains of the Chamber by a single voting margin.

Trump had given the congress under republican control a period of July 4 to send him a final version of the bill to connect.

“The bill as a change is adopted,” said Vance Tuesday afternoon, a moment that was encountered by applause among the Senate Republicans, while the Democrats were placed in their seats and shook the head of disapproval

Disputes concerning the deficit, social programs and expenditure levels have created challenges for Republicans, blocking progress and encouraging Trump to concede that it would be “very difficult” to respect his deadline for having adopted the bill.

Despite the efforts to galvanize his party, the head of the majority of the Senate John Thune lost three Republicans – Susan Collins of Maine, Thom Tillis de Caroline du Nord and Rand Paul of Kentucky – during the narrow vote. Collins, Tillis and Paul joined all the Democrats to vote against the bill.

After days of negotiations, the Republican leaders were finally able to obtain the support of the Senator of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, who had retained her support for the concerns of the impact of cups in Medicaid in her state.

Murkowski has always appeared with the bill, even after voting to support it, describing the process as “precipitated” and under an “artificial chronology”.

“I fought powerfully with the impact on the most vulnerable in this country,” said Murkowski, adding that the process was “probably the most difficult and agonizing” legislative period of his career.

“I hope that the House will examine this and recognize that we are not yet there,” she told journalists just outside the Senate soil, a few moments after the vote.

The support of Murkowski made the final vote of the Senate 50-50 and prompted Vance to intervene to vote.

During a visit to a migrant detention center in Florida, Trump celebrated the adoption of the bill. “It’s a major bill,” he said. “There is something for everyone.”

The legislation, considered as an cornerstone of the agenda of the second term of Trump, would carry out permanent tax reductions which have been temporarily put in place when it was in office for the first time.

To compensate for the expected loss of income, the Republicans have sought to reduce spending in a wide range of programs, including food and health care for low -income Americans.

The vote came Tuesday afternoon, concluding a swirling voting session on Capitol Hill.

The Democrats had tried to flex their muscles by implementing procedural obstacles against the bill to delay its adoption.

This included obliging the clerks in the Senate to read every 940 pages of the bill and to launch a long process of debate on modifications proposed in what is called a “vote-a-rama”.

It is now up to the Republicans to approve the changes made by the Senate before the president could sign the bill.

But his fate remains uncertain, because he opposed different angles and the Republicans cannot afford to lose three votes.

A group of fiscal conservative hawks reported their misfortune with the quantity of the Senate proposal to be able to add to the American national deficit – which refers to the difference between what the government spends and what it increases in income each year.

According to the Caucus of the right house Freedom, the Senate proposal could add $ 650 billion (472 billion pounds sterling) to the deficit each year. “This is not a budgetary responsibility,” Caucus members said on a social media article on Monday. “This is not what we accepted.”

Meanwhile, other House Republicans fear that Senate legislation will reduce the reductions in the Medicaid Health Insurance Program for low -income Americans they had approved.

The Democrats of the two Congress Chambers also criticized the proposed social protection cuts.

The Republicans of the House of Representatives will work against a deadline previously imposed on the President of July 4.

“I would love to do on July 4, but I think it’s very difficult to do on July 4 … I might say on July 4 or somewhere,” Trump told journalists when he left the White House for Florida.

Other criticism of the plans, the billionaire Tech Elon Musk, who helped Trump win the White House last year and served as Tsar to reduce Trump cost.

Musk is now working actively to spoil the chances of survival of the legislation on the signing of Trump and threatened to create a new political party if the bill erases the congress.

On Monday, he threatened to support the Challengers of the Republicans who vote for this.

“Each member of the congress who campaigned on the reduction of public spending, then immediately voted for the greatest increase in the debt in history should suspend their heads!” Musk wrote on X.

The strong reductions of the bill to the support of the government for renewable energies and electric vehicles could harm the results for a company where Musk also made part of its fortune, Tesla.