The Senate stopped on Tuesday morning (July 1) after the voting session at night to sweep the tax and President Donald Trump, because Republican leaders tried to ensure the final votes needed to call “one big beautiful law”. Deep divisions within the party and the hard opposition of the Democrats have shifted this process to one of the longest marathons in the modern history of the Senate.
Thune: “We’ll see what happens”
The leading majority of the Senate John Thune worked overnight to bridge the abyss between moderators who feared that Medicaid cuts and fiscal hawks require a deeper reduction. Thune, he asked if the bill was going through the law, he said, “I believe yes (we have votes). But as I said, I am from Scandinavian heritage, so I was always realist – we’ll see what happens.”
Trump: “I don’t like cuts”
President Donald Trump, who set a deadline for passing 4 July, acknowledged the complexity of the negotiations when he left Florida on Tuesday morning: “We will have to see the final version. I don’t want to be too mad with cuts. I don’t like it.”
Yet the president expressed confidence: “I think we’ll get there. It’s hard. We’re trying to overthrow it, overthrow it, so it’s really good for the country.”
All eyes on Murkowski
Senator Alaska Lisa Murkowski appeared as a key vote. She spent hours curled up in negotiations and promoted the protection of Medicaid and food aid in her state – some of which were excluded by the Senate’s progress.
Asked how he would vote early on Tuesday, she told reporters, “The sun is up, I’ll go a cup of coffee.”
Collin, Paul and other key holding
In one place, Senator Rand Paul amazed his colleagues by emerging from Thune’s office offering to trade his opposition for a significantly lower increase in the debt ceiling – GOP’s proposal leaders weighed when the chamber was deeper into uncertainty.
Meanwhile, four hard Republican-rick Scott (FLA), Mike Lee (Utah), Ron Johnson (Wis.) And Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.)-demanded even more cuts. They filed to Thune’s office for a late night meeting that stretched after midnight.
Since Republicans hold a narrow 53-47 most, Thune can afford to lose no more than three voices. Two senators – Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina – have already declared their opposition and left Bill’s fate in the hands of several key peace.
Susan Collins (R-Maine), another fundamental vote on the swing, also remained uncommon and said that “had many serious reservations about the bill”.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a reliable fiscal conservative, offered a last minute agreement with a lower growth in the debt ceiling, but remained against.
Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina also signaled his “no” vote and quoted concerns about millions of losses of Medicaid coverage.
Night of friction and fatigue
What began as a standard voice-a-time was spiraled into a 24-hour legislative slog. More than thirty changes were processed in the chamber, which were often dead on the surface, but in the scenes behind the scenes.
Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, who was seen bearing donuts through Capitol, lamented over the loss of her own amendment to soften green energy cuts: “I don’t think they’ll let us raise us,” she said. “There are a lot of things that happened overnight, such a kind of vomited a lot of our plans.”
Democrats will slam “magic mathematics”
The Democrats of the Senate were working on slowing dynamics by pulling out the debate and reading of the Sections Loud at the weekend.
The democratic leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer said: “Republicans are in ruins because they know that the law is so unpopular.”
Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) Condemned GOP budget mathematics: “This kind of magical mathematics will not fly with Americans trying to balance their own household books.”
What is in the account?
According to the Congress Budget Office, the tax and expenditure law would:
- Make a tax reduction of Taxes of 2017 Trumpa and add a new reduction – they do not include any taxes on tips – the total cost of $ 4.5 trillion.
- Slash $ 1.2 trillion for Medicaid expenses and food stamps by tightening work requirements and reducing capacity.
- Reduction of billions of clean energy loans – the Democrats warned changes that they would destroy wind and solar projects across the country.
- Assign $ 350 billion to border and deportation, partly funded by new immigrants.
- CBO projects by 11.8 million other Americans would become a fuse by 2034 and the deficit would have increased by nearly $ 3.3 trillion in decades.
- $ 4.5 trillion in tax cuts, which makes Trump 2017 tax rates permanent
- $ 1.2 trillion in cuts for stamps Medicaid and Food, through work requirements and stricter competence
- Expenditure on border and national security of $ 350 billion
- Eliminating key tax credit from green energy
- New excise taxes from solar and wind equipment from China and other “foreign entities of interest”
- According to the Congress Budget Office, the bill would increase by $ 3.3 trillion for $ 10 for $ 10
- Leave by 11.8 million more Americans by 2034
Final countdown
Finance Minister Scott Bessnt said at Fox News that the bill is on the way to the Senate approval until Tuesday afternoon. Republican assistants were seen as the Senate’s parliament on Tuesday morning, suggesting a “wrapped amendment” to clear the legislation for the final passage and increase her chances in the house.
House Speaker Mike Johnson warned that the bill of the Senate could face turbulence in the house, especially above the cuts of Medicaid and compromises with the deduction of the state and local tax. One member of GOP House, representative of Nick Lalot of New York, has already committed himself to vote.
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