Donald Trump presses the dissidents of the republican house to adopt the American tax bill
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Donald Trump worked to win Republican criticism on Wednesday, in a last push of the American president to obtain his flagship bill of the tax and expenses by the congress by a self-imposed deadline of July 4.
The Trump calendar was authorized for the day, allowing him to meet in private the republican rebels of the House of Representatives who threatened to torpedo his “big and beautiful bill” at the eleventh hour.
“The only great magnificent matter is a question of growth,” said Trump in an article on his Truth social platform on Wednesday morning. “If it has passed, America will have an economic renaissance like never before.”
The “large and beautiful invoice” extends large tax reductions from the first Trump administration, partly paid by steep MEDICAIDE cups, the public health insurance plan for low -income and disabled Americans and other social protection programs.
The bill would also make tax credits for the Joe Biden era for clean energy, while increasing investments in the army and the protection of borders.
The Senate adopted a version of radical legislation on Tuesday after three Senate Republicans took place on the side of the Democrats against the bill, forcing vice-president JD Vance to vote.
This referred the legislation to the House, which must vote by the bill before Trump signs it. The president and his allies want the bill to become the law on the holidays of independence on Friday.
A previous version of the legislation adopted the House by a single vote in May. But a small group of Républicains de la Chambre has now challenged the version of the Senate – and threatened to vote it.
“The Senate bill has moved away from the House bill,” said Andy Harris, the Maryland Republican on Wednesday morning, who presides over the influential House Freedom Caucus. “We should take the time to do things well.”
Fiscal conservative legislators, including many members of the Freedom Caucus, oppose the cost of the legislation, which, according to the non -partisan congress budget, will add almost 3.4 TN to the deficit during the next decade. On Wednesday, the group distributed a three -page memo detailing what it described as “failures” of the Senate bill.
More moderate members argued that the Medicaid cuts, which would exceed around 12 million people from their health insurance, are too steep.
The White House rejected the CBO projections and argued that the bill would be more than paying in the long term by generating stronger economic growth.
The Republican President of the House, Mike Johnson, who is due to appease the factions of his party, insisted late Tuesday that the Chamber could find common ground and adopt the bill by the end of the week.
“We are on a yard line,” Johnson told Fox News, in a reference to American football. “We will make it work until the middle and mark for the American people. Everyone will benefit from this bill. “
Johnson nevertheless dealt with incredibly tight margins and counts on all its members to be in Washington for a final vote, which could arrive on Wednesday afternoon.
He told Fox that he was closely monitored the weather, heavy rains and thunderstorms had put many flights on the east coast this week, to make sure that the full house was present for critical votes.
