The Republicans of the American Chamber propelled the major tax lounge on President Donald Trump and the discussion of the Congress expenditure on Thursday, overcoming the multiple backhands to approve his signing package before a deadline of July 4 on Thursday.
The tight call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, two Republicans joining all opposite democrats. GOP leaders worked during the night and the president himself relied on a handful of skeptics to drop their opposition.
The Democrat chief, representative Hakeem Jeffries, delayed the vote for more than eight hours taking control of the soil with a record discourse against the bill.
“It will be a big bill for the country,” said Trump afterwards, when he was leaving for an event in Iowa. He said he would sign the bill on Friday.
The bill includes a massive increase in expenditure for immigration and customs application (ICE) and a decrease in medical funding.
The result offers a milestone for the president and his party. It was a long effort to compile a long list of GOP priorities in the bill, which amounts to almost 900 pages.
Unified Democrats in the opposition, the bill will become a decisive measure of Trump’s return to the White House, helped by republican control of the Congress.
“Are you still tired to win?” said the president of the room and the Republican Mike Johnson, invoking Trump as he called the vote.
“With a large and beautiful bill, we will make this country stronger, safer and more prosperous than ever,” he said.
The Republicans celebrated with an interpretation of the village YMCA, a song that the American president often plays during his gatherings, during a ceremony thereafter.
Includes money to help develop a “gold dome”
Basically, the priority of the package is 4.5 billions of dollars in tax alternatives promulgated in 2017, during Trump’s first term, which would expire if the congress had not acted, as well as new ones. This includes allowing workers to deduct advice and overtime, and a deduction of $ 6,000 for most elderly people earning less than $ 75,000 per year.
There is also a significant investment, some $ 350 billion, in national security and the expulsion program of Trump and to help develop the defensive system of the “gold dome” in the United States
To help compensate for lost tax revenue, the package includes $ 1.2 billion of health care and food coupons from Medicaid, largely by imposing new work requirements, including some parents and elderly, and a major hike of green energy tax credits.
The non -partisan congress budget office estimates that the package will add $ 3.3 billions to the deficit during the decade and 11.8 million additional people will go without health coverage.
‘Cruelty retalon’
Democrats have unified against the bill as a tax gift to the rich paid on the back of the working class and the most vulnerable in society, which they called “the cruelty falling”.
Representative Jeffries began his speech at 4:53 a.m. and finished at 1:37 p.m. – eight hours and 44 minutes later, a record – as he called on Trump’s “big ugly bill”.
“We are better than that,” said Jeffries, who used the prerogative of a leader for unlimited debate and read the letter after the letter from Americans writing on their dependence on health care programs.
“It is a crime scene, the health and safety and well-being of the American people.”
Tensions have run. While the Democratic colleagues chant the name of Jeffries, a high -level Republican, representative Jason Smith of Missouri, president of the Chamber’s Ways and Means Committee, described his speech as “porcs”.
Transporting the package by the congress was difficult from the start. The Republicans fought powerfully with the bill almost at each stage of the path, competing in the House and the Senate and often succeeding only by the narrowest margins: just a vote.
The American Senate adopted the package a few days earlier with the American vice-president JD Vance breaking the tie. The thin majority of the house left the Republicans little room for defections.
“It was not beautiful enough for me to vote for that,” said Republican representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky. The representative also voted the representative Brian Fitzpatrick de Pennsylvania, also a republican, who said he was concerned about the Medicaid cups.
Once Johnson has Gavell, the Republicans applauded “USA!” And flashes Trump’s thumbs up to the cameras.
Trump pressure
Despite their discomfort with various aspects of the sprawling package, in some ways, it has become too important to fail – in part because the Republicans had trouble falling Trump.
While the action at the Wednesday stadium was dragged overnight, Trump took pricing against delays. “What are the Republicans waiting ???” The president said in a midnight article on Truth Social. “What are you trying to prove ???”
Johnson, the lecturer of the Chamber, relied strongly on the secretaries of the Cabinet of the White House, the lawyers and others to satisfy the skeptical holdouts of the GOP. Moderate republicans were concerned about the severity of the cuts while the conservatives have grown stronger discounts. The legislators said they had been informed that the administration could provide executive actions, projects or other provisions in their districts at home.
The alternative was clear. The Republicans who expressed the opposition to the bill, including Massie of Kentucky and Senator Thom Tillis, were warned by Trump’s well funded political operation. Tillis announced shortly after he would not ask for re -election.
In many ways, the package is a repudiation of the agendas of the last two Democratic presidents, a downstream of scissors to expand Medicaid of the affordable Barack Obama Act and a decline in Joe Biden’s climate change strategies in the law on the reduction of inflation.
Democrats have described the bill in disastrous terms, warning that the Medicaid cuts, on which some 80 million Americans count, would lead to the loss of lives. Food coupons that help feed more than 40 million people “tear food from hungry children’s mouths, hungry veterans and hungry seniors,” said Jeffries.
The Republicans say that tax reductions will prevent an increase in taxes on households and increase the economy. They argue that they are trying to rights to safety programs and to eliminate what they describe as waste, fraud and abuse.
