BBC News, Washington DC
Donald Trump’s large -scale tax and spending budget bills have returned to the US House of Representatives – because the watch ends the President’s 4 July deadline for MPs, which is to present them with a final version, which can be signed in the law.
Bill cleaned the Senate, or the Upper Chamber of Congress on Tuesday. Vice President JD Vance cast a tie-breaking vote after a debate and resistance of more than 24 hours with some Republican senators.
This has so far proved equally difficult for Trump’s colleagues to pass the bill through the House, where speaker Mike Johnson’s hopes of voting on Wednesday appear thin.
The members of the Congress were empty from the floor of the House by noon, after it became clear that there were not enough votes for the bill, to pass the rule that allows the law to bring to the floor, usually an easy procedural function.
The House, or Lower Chamber approved the first version of the bill in May with a difference of only one vote, and this bill, with new amendments, who have disappointed some Republicans, should now be reconciled with the Senate version.
Both chambers are controlled by Trump’s Republican, but many factions within the party are fighting on major policies in long laws.
The President has been very involved in an attempt to convince the holdout and held several meetings at the White House on Wednesday, which is expected to win them.
Republican Ralph Norman, a House in South Carolina, attended one of the meetings, but was not persuaded.
He said, “There will be no vote until we can satisfy everyone,” he said that he believes that there are about 25 other Republicans who are currently opposing it. The chamber can only lose three Republicans to pass the measurement.
“I found problems with this bill,” he said. “I had trouble with all this.”
Sticking points include the question of how much the bill will add to the US National Defisit, and how deep it will cut healthcare and other social events.
During the previous signs of rebellion against Trump in the Congress, Republican MPs have finally fallen into the line.
This time the stake that is at stake is the defined piece of law for the second term of Trump. The groups here are standing in their way.
Loss of Hawk
The Congress Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the edition of the bill passed by the Senate on Tuesday could add $ 3.3TN (£ 2.4TN) to the US national deficit over the next 10 years. It compares with $ 2.8tn that can be connected by the earlier version that was passed narrowly by the house.
Losses mean what the US government spends and there is a difference between the revenue received.
This angered the fiscal huxe in Conservative House Freedom Caucus, who threatened to tank the bill.
Many of them are echoing the claims made by former Trump’s former advisor and campaign donor Elon Musk, who have repeatedly exited MPs to consider a bill that will eventually add to the US national debt.
Short time after Senate passed the bill, Texas Congressman Chip royThe ultraconsorvaative house was quick to indicate his frustration of Freedom Caucas.
He said that Trump’s possibility of meeting on July 4 has increased.
Freedom Cocks President Andy Harris Tennessee told Fox News that Muscat was right to say that America could not maintain these deficit. “He understands the finance, he understands the debt and deficit, and we have to progress further.”
On Tuesday, Conservative Congressman Andy Ogles An amendment went to file, which would completely change the Senate version of the bill, which he called “dud”, with the original Sadan-unnatural one.
Ohio Republican Warren davison Posted on X: “Promising someone else will cut spending in future, does not cut the expenditure.”
Medicade guardian
Representatives of poor districts are concerned about the Senate version of the bill that damaged their components, which can also hurt them in elections in 2026.
According to The Hill, six Republican major provisions were planned to vote for the bill due to concerns about cuts, including cuts in medical coverage.
Some important Republicans have attacked the more aggressive Senate Cut the medicadeThe Healthcare program was trusted by millions of low -income Americans.
The Congress said, “I am clear from the beginning that I will not support a final reconciliation bill, which harm the Medicid harmful, risks significant funds, or endanger the stability of healthcare providers.” David ValadaoWhich represents a swing district in California.
It echoes the criticism of opposition house Democrats, whose leader, Hakim Jeffrees posted a picture of himself on Instagram on Wednesday, grabbed a baseball bat and vowed to “keep pressure on a big ugly bill of Trump”.
The other Republican has indicated a desire to compromise. Randy Fine of Florida told the BBC that he was disappointed with the Senate version of the bill, but he would vote through the House because “we cannot let the right be the enemy of good”.
The House Republican wrestled how much of the medicade and food subsidy were cut in the initial version passed by his chamber. To offset the lost revenue lost from the tax cuts contained in the law, they needed a bill to reduce the expenditure.
The Senate cut the stator in both areas in the version passed on Tuesday.
Changes in the Medicade and Affordable Care Act (known as Obamcare) in the Senate bills will lose health insurance to about 12 million Americans by 2034, according to a CBO report published on Saturday.
Originally passed by the house, according to the CBO, a small number of 11 million Americans would have taken away their coverage.
State Tax (salt) objectionable
The bill is also related to the question as to how much they can pay from the amount paid in federal taxes, on the basis of how much they pay. State and local tax (salt)It has also become a controversial issue.
Currently there is a cap of $ 10,000, which is ending this year. Both Senate and House have approved it to increase it to $ 40,000.
But in the version approved by the Senate, the cap will return to $ 10,000 after five years. This change may cause a problem for some House Republicans.