Trump’s tax and spending cuts bill clears key Senate vote as Republicans race to pass it by July 4

The Republicans of the Senate voted in a dramatic session of Saturday late Saturday erased a key procedural stage as they run to advance the package of President Donald Trump fiscal reductions, expense reductions and strengthening of expulsion funds by its deadline for July fourth.

The count, 51-49, came after a tumultuous session with the vice-president JD Vance at hand if necessary to break equality. Ten -stretch scenes took place in the room as the vote stopped, dragging for hours while the Holdout senators huddled for negotiations. In the end, two Republicans opposed the request for debate, joining all the Democrats.

It is still a long weekend of work to come.

The Republicans use their majority in the congress to rule out democratic opposition, but they met a series of Political and political recovers. Not all GOP legislators are on board with proposals to reduce expenses Medicaid, food coupons and other programs such as helping cover the cost of extension Some $ 3.8 billions in Trump’s tax lightening.

Before the planned call, the White House published an administrative policy declaration saying that it “strongly supports the adoption” of the bill which “implements the critical aspects” of the president’s agenda. Trump himself was in his golf course in Virginia on Saturday with GOP senators who publish on social networks.

“It is time to pass this legislation through the finish line,” said the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d.

But while the day was dragging, the billionaire Elon Musk was unleashed, calling the “completely crazy and destructive” package.

“The Senate’s last bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and will cause immense strategic damages to our country!” Former help Trump said in a post.

THE 940 pages invoice was released shortly before midnight on Friday, and the senators should crush the hours of debate overnight and the amendments in the coming days. If the Senate is able to adopt it, the bill would return to the House for a last series of votes before it can reach the White House.

With close republican majorities in the House and Senate, leaders need almost all legislators on board in the face of an essentially unified opposition from Democrats. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against.

The Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, said that the Republicans have unveiled the “night death” bill and rush to finish the bill before the public fully knows what there is. He should ask for a complete reading of the text in the Senate, which would take hours.

Make of makeup for GOP

The weekend session could be a moment to do or rupture for Trump’s party, which has invested a large part of its political capital on its Signature interior policy plan. Trump pushes the congress to conclude and urged the “stands” among the GOP holduts to be satisfied.

Legislation is an ambitious series but complicated by GOP priorities. Basically, it would make many of the tax relief of Trump’s first mandate that would expire by the end of the year if the congress does not act, resulting in a potential tax increase in the Americans. The bill would add new breaks, including no advice tax and would initiate $ 350 billion in national security, including for Trump mass expulsion program.

But medical cuts, food coupons and green energy investments, which, according to a high -level democrat, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon would be a “death sentence” for the wind and solar industries of America, also causes dissidents in the ranks of the GOP.

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Republicans are counting on reductions to compensate for lost tax revenues, but some legislators say that cuts go too far, especially for people who receive health care via Medicaid. Meanwhile, the conservatives, worried about the country’s debt, put pressure for higher cuts.

Tillis, who said he spoke with Trump on Friday evening, explaining his concerns, announced on Saturday that he could not support the package as is largely because he said that health care changes would force his condition to “make painful decisions such as elimination of Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands”.

After the reverse, the Republicans revise certain proposals

The release of this project had been delayed as Senate parliamentarian examined the bill to ensure that it is satisfied with the strict “Byrd rule” of the Chamber, named the late Senator Robert C. Byrd, Dw.va. He largely prohibits questions of inclusion policy in budgetary invoices, unless a provision can obtain 60 votes to overcome objections. It would be a major challenge in a Senate with a GOP Edge 53-47 and unified democrats against Trump’s bill.

The Republicans underwent a series of setbacks after several proposals, including the change stroke Costs of the federal government in states or in evisceration The financing structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has been deemed to have compliance with the rules.

But in recent days, the Republicans have quickly revised these proposals and restored them.

The final text includes a proposal for the reduction of the providers of Medicaid which had encountered parliamentary obstacles and objections of several senators concerned with the fate of rural hospitals. The new version extends the start date of these cuts and establishes a $ 25 billion fund to help hospitals and rural providers. Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Who had opposed the cuts, has sworn “to do everything I can” to make sure that the reductions never get into force.

THE Office of the budget of the non -partisan congress said that under the version of the house of the house, Some 10.9 million additional people would go without health care and at least 3 million less would qualify for food aid. The CBO has not yet publicly evaluated the Senate project, which offers stronger discounts.

The best incomes would see about a tax reduction of $ 12,000 as part of the bedroom bill, while the package would cost the poorest Americans $ 1,600, The CBO said.

The salt dispute gets things

The Senate included a compromise on the so-called salt arrangement, a deduction for the taxes of states and premises which was an absolute priority of the New York legislators and other states with high taxes, but the problem remains unstable.

The current salt ceiling is $ 10,000 per year, and a handful of Republicans wanted to switch to $ 40,000 per year. The final project includes a ceiling of $ 40,000, but limits it for five years.

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Many Republican senators say it’s still too generous. At least one house in the GOP Holdout, representative Nick Lalota from New York, said it would be insufficient.

Trump’s deadline is approaching

Home President Mike Johnson, who sent his colleagues home for the weekend with the intention of being on appeal to return to Washington. But as the Senate’s project was revealed, the GOP’s support was uncertain. A Republican, representative David Valadao de California, said that he was opposed.

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