Republican elected officials began the exam on Saturday, June 29 in the Mégaproject Senate of the Budget Law sought by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who urges his troops to adopt the text quickly.
On Friday, the discussions among the Republican senators were eternalized, the elected officials struggling to agree on the version to adopt the text, already voted in the House of Representatives, baptized “a great bill” (great and beautiful law) of Donald Trump.
The Senate officially began its exam on Saturday night, adopting the opening motion for 51 votes to 49 against (including two Republicans).
An expected vote at the end of the weekend
Republican officials hope to vote at the end of the weekend. The parliamentary shuttle will return to the lower room to approve the revised version.
The US president faces certain refractory senators in his own camp, which wish to make substantive changes in the text before presenting it to the vote in the hemicycle. Donald Trump still expects the bill to arrive at his office for promulgation before Friday, national holiday.
The democratic opposition, a minority in the two cameras, continues to criticize fiscal reductions for the richest to the detriment of a working class already overwhelmed by inflation.
Democrats want a reading aloud
The critics of the text, the Democrats began insisting that it was read in their entirety before the elected officials before the debates began. It will take about fifteen hours to do this, the megaprojet of the law has a thousand pages long.
“Republicans do not want to tell the United States what is in the bill,” said Democrats head Chuck Schumer. “Then the Democrats force him to read from beginning to end (…) We will be there all night if that is what is needed to read it.”
The “big and beautiful law” promises to materialize some of Donald Trump’s most important campaign promises.
First, the extension of the tax credits adopted during their first mandate, but also the elimination of taxes on the tips, or billions of dollars for defense and the fight against immigration.
To compensate (among other things) the expensive extension of Trump’s “tax credits”, the presidential party has planned to cut in Medicaid, the public health insurance program in which millions of Americans depend on modest income, but also to largely reduce the SNAP program, the main food help of the country.
It also plans to return to numerous tax incentives with renewable energy, established under Joe Biden.
Source: BFM TV
