Republicans in the US Congress finally succeeded Thursday night to overcome the objections of refractory elected officials in their camp to approach a final adoption of the great budget bill of Donald Trump, which are expected at dawn in Washington.
After the Senate, which approved it on Tuesday, the House of Representatives had to decide on Wednesday about this text of several billions of dollars.
But the opposition shown by several conservative elected officials, who denounced the excavation of public debt with this legislation, forced Republican officials to stop the process, leaving a procedural vote for more than seven hours.
With the majority of only eight seats, the presidential party cannot afford more than three defections in its own camp. However, when midnight rang in Washington, five voices “against” were identified among the Republicans for the last procedure vote, therefore, enough to sink the text in theory.
Four of them finally changed their vote, as the regulations allow. The culmination of the negotiations behind the scene of the president of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, with the help of the White House tenant.
“Maga is not happy”
Because before that, Donald Trump had begun to raise the tone.
“Maga is not happy, and it costs you voices,” added the 79 -year -old Upperfect president in capital letters, referring to his movement “make America great again.”
According to The Daily The Hill, Donald Trump spoke on the phone during the night to convince the Republicans who voted “no” to change their vote.
This “big and beautiful law,” as he baptized, represents the cornerstone of his economic program. For several weeks, he has been pressing Congress to adopt it before Friday, on the day of the national holidays that he established as a symbolic deadline for promulgation.
At the top of the bill: the extension of colossal tax credits adopted during the first republican mandate. It is also planned to eliminate taxes on tips, an emblematic promise of your campaign, as well as billions of dollars for defense and fight against immigration.
According to independent analysis, the main beneficiaries of the “great beautiful bill” will be the richest households, while millions of Americans with modest income could lose their access to public health insurance or food assistance programs.
“Reduce our debt”
Experts and politicians also indicate the expected explosion of the public deficit. The Congress Budget Office, responsible for an unwanted evaluation of the impact of public finance law projects, said Tuesday that “a large bill would increase debt by more than 3,400 billion dollars by 2034.
The elected Texan accused his Senate colleagues for having “trampled” the previously adopted version in the room, before adding that at the end it was for him “a matter of morality.” Like three other colleagues, he finally changed his vote to “for” for a few hours later.
To partially compensate for the expansion of the deficit, Republicans plan to cut in Medicaid, a public health insurance program on which millions of Americans depend on low income.
A drastic reduction in the SNAP program is also planned, the main food aid in the country, as well as the abolition of numerous tax incentives for renewable energies adopted under Joe Biden.
As expected, the Democrats oppose the text as a whole. Its leader in the representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, described it as “disgusting monstrosity” that “will make common Americans suffer” in favor of the richest.
Source: BFM TV
