Senate Republicans release 940-page bill for Trump’s agenda as they race to vote this weekend
Washington – Moments before midnight, the Republican leaders of the Senate published the text of their 940 -page bill on Friday, in order to start the votes on this subject on Saturday.
GOP legislators rush to pass the scanning package for President Donald Trump’s agenda by a self-imposed deadline on July 4, but he continues to face obstacles along the way. And it is not clear if the Senate republicans have enough votes to start the debate on this subject.
The legislation would extend the tax reductions that Trump was signed in 2017 and reduces taxes on advice and overtime. It includes an increase of $ 150 billion to military spending this year, as well as an increase in federal money to make Trump’s mass deportations and the immigration application agenda. He partially pays for this with Medicaid cups, snap and clean energy financing, although the legislation is likely to add to the national debt.
It also contains an increase of 5 billions of dollars from the debt ceiling before a deadline in August to avoid a defect in the country’s obligations.
With a majority of 53-47 in the House, the Republicans can only afford three defections on the vote, without hope of gaining democratic support. Republicans seek to adopt the bill through the budgetary reconciliation process, which allows them to bypass the threshold of 60 vote from the Senate.
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, RS.D., aims to organize a first test of testing on the Mammoth package on Saturday, but encounters basic republicans problems trying to pump the brakes on the process.
Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Said during an appearance on Fox News on Saturday morning that he would vote against the initial motion to start the debate on the bill until he has more time to see him again.
“We have just received the invoice and I obtained my first copy around 1:23 in the morning this morning. About 300 arrangements, by my countdown,” said Johnson. “We should not adopt the Nancy Pelosi approach and pass this bill to find out what is exactly what there is.”
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Told NBC News on Friday that he would oppose the bill, but that he was recupeting if the republicans suppress the debt ceiling hike. It is very unlikely that it will happen. Paul, the only GOP senator to have voted against the measure throughout all stages of the process this year, said that it was “much more a bill of expenditure than a bill which rectifies the problem of debt”.
The GOP package prohibits the funding of Medicaid for entities that provide abortion, including Planned Parenthood, seeking to compensate for a long -standing conservative priority. But this prosecution was faced with the opposition of meaning. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, so that the arrangement can endanger their voices.
Without the Capitol on Friday evening, Thune said that he was not sure that the Republicans have the votes to advance the measure but that it was time to act.
“It is a process and I hope that the votes will be there,” said Thune, “but we will not know it with certainty before having really had the vote.”
Even if the package can pass its first obstacle on Saturday, it would still have a long way to go. There would be at least 10 hours of debate before senators could start to vote on modifications, and the Democrats threaten to force reading the entire bill. The room, which adopted its own version in May, should adopt the Senate bill before going to the Trump office.
GOP leaders mean that reluctant members will not vote to scuttle “Big and Beautiful Bill” from Trump when the push manages to push. And they said they should perhaps enlist the president to twist their arms and influence.
Senate legislation aims to resolve an impasse on the deduction of state and local tax (salt). It raises a ceiling of $ 10,000 existing at $ 40,000 for five years – against a decade in the version adopted by the house – before suppressing it to $ 10,000. This represents an important concession for the Republicans of the Blue House who had insisted to solidify the upper ceiling.
The bill aims to alleviate the pain of the Medicaid cups on certain suppliers by creating a rural hospital fund worth $ 25 billion over five years. It includes work requirements and other new rules for recipients to qualify
The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., criticized the bill.
“At the request of Big Oil, in the died of the night, the Republicans of the Senate published a new version of their” large and beautiful betrayal “which increases the taxes retroactively,” he said in a statement on Saturday. “Republicans want to increase your electricity bills and compromise hundreds of thousands of jobs, all so that they can give tax alleviation.”
