Trump makes case for ‘big, beautiful bill’ and cranks up pressure on Republicans | Donald Trump

On Thursday, Donald Trump summoned the leaders of the congress and the secretaries of the Cabinet to the White House to plead for the adoption of his law on renowned taxation and expenses, but it remains to be seen if his speech of encouragement will resolve a development logjam which could threaten his passage through the Senate.

The president’s intervention comes while the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, reflects on an initial vote on Trump’s “big and beautiful bill” on Friday, before the deadline of July 4, Trump imposed on the legislation ready for his signature.

But it is not clear if the Republicans have the votes to pass it through the upper chamber of the Congress, and if changes that the Senate will bring the rally to the House of Representatives, where the republican majority adopted the bill last month by a single vote and which could have to vote again on a revised version of the bill.

Trump was held before an assembly made up of police and firefighters, working parents and the mother and father of a woman who, according to him, died in the hands of an undocumented immigrant to affirm that the Americans like them would benefit from the bill, which includes new tax reductions and the extension of the lower rates promulgated during his first mandate, as well as the infusion of funds for the application of immigration.

“There are hundreds of things here. It’s so good,” he said. But he made no mention of his desire to sign the legislation by next Friday – the holiday of independence of the United States – rather encouraging his audience to contact their legislators to obtain the bill on the finish line.

“If you can, call your senators, call your Congress members. We need to get the vote,” he said.

Democrats have nicknamed the “Big and ugly treason” bill and have reduced against its potential reduction in Medicaid, the Federal Health Care Program for low -income and disabled people. The legislation would impose the greatest reduction in funding in Medicaid since its creation in 1965 and would cost their insurance around 16 million people.

It would also reduce the financing of the additional nutritional assistance program (SNAP), which helps Americans afford to offer themselves.

Republicans intend to bypass the filibusier in the Senate using the budget reconciliation procedure, under which they can adopt legislation with just a majority vote, provided that this affects only expenses, income and debt limit. But Thursday, the Democrats of the Senate Budget Committee announced that the parliamentarian, Elizabeth Macdonough, had held that a change in taxes that states use to pay for Medicaid were not authorized under reconciliation rules.

This could further increase the cost of the bill, which the Bipartisan joint committee on recently estimated taxation would add 4.2 massive TN to the US budget deficit over 10 years. Such a high cost can be unpleasant for right -wing legislators in the House, which require reductions in aggressive expenditure, but the more immediate concern of the GOP lies in the Senate, where several moderate legislators have still not said that they were a voting yes on the bill.

“I do not think that anyone thinks that the current text is final, so I do not think that anyone would vote for that in its current form. We [have] I had a lot of things we are working on, “Senator Thom Tillis of North Caroline said on Wednesday, a higher target of Democrats in the mid-term elections next year.

In an interview with The Guardian last week, the senator from Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, refused to say how she would vote on the bill, describing it rather as “a work in progress” and arguing that the Senate should not “not necessarily attach us to an arbitrary date to arrive as quickly as possible”.

The Democrats took the merit of Macdonough’s decision on the Medicaid tax, with the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, claiming that the party successfully fought a harmful provision that would have decimated the America’s health system and injure millions of Americans. This victory saves hundreds of billions of dollars. “