US Senate to begin voting on Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’
The US Senate launched a marathon vote in a expanding budget for President Donald Trump’s agenda, but the spending plan hangs in balance after weeks of negotiations.
Republicans, who control both congress rooms, are divided into a great bill of invoicing action to extend tax reductions.
The president’s party is sprinting to cross the legislation until the deadline of the four July official holiday of this week.
If the measure cleans the senate, he will have to get another vote for the House of Representatives, who passed his own version of the bill with a single vote last month.
On Monday, the senators squeezed them from the Capitol halls and proceeded to the base of the room for various change votes, and then returned to the special meeting rooms where journalists came out of their appearance.
Senators are currently adding changes to adding changes to the invoice of about 1000-page in a process called “Oylama-Rama”.
The session is expected to continue on Tuesday morning during the night.
“Frankly, we’re still perfecting a few things,” the Senate majority leader John Thune said on Monday. He said.
Florida senator Rick Scott suggested a change in recently recommended Medicaid Discounts. 20 million Americans who will lose their scope of health insuranceAccording to an estimate.
When asked about the report, Thune said there were “many analyzes there”.
“Thing [Scott’s] Bill does not do it, it does not come into force until 2031. So I’m not sure how you can claim that he will kick any person from health insurance tomorrow. “He said.
The bill, especially for millions of poor Americans, to cut the scope of health insurance repeatedly, the democrats are expected to use the 10 discussion hours allocated, Republicans will probably not be.
California Democrat and Trump’s long -standing critic Senator Adam Schiff called the bill “terrible”.
He told the BBC that the Senate Republicans were not sure whether Trump will meet the transition date on Friday, where America celebrated the Independence Day this Friday, even if they do it, “Who knows what’s happening at home.”
Speaking at the White House on Monday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump was “confident” that his bill would pass, and he was still waiting at his desk until his last date date.
A Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman was disappointed after Monday afternoon, after a final draft of the invoice.
“Oh, God, I just want to go home, dedi he said, he added that expanded negotiations and voting tours cause him to miss his” travel to the beach “.
“I don’t think it’s really useful to put people here for an hour,” he said.
On Sunday, the Democrats used a political maneuver to stop the progress of the bill, and called on the 940 pages of Bill, a process that lasted 16 hours of 16 hours.
The movement watched the public debate on the weekend 51-49 games that moves narrowly on the budget bill.
Two Republican, defending more changes in legislation, confronted the democrats in voting against discussions.
One of these Republicans, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis announced his retirement after this vote and said that the legislation broke the promises of Trump and Republicans to voters.
Tillis, “too many elected officials, the campaign to represent the people who promised to represent the pure raw policy that does not really curse.”
The White House reacted angrily on Monday that Tillis reacted and Leavitt told journalists that the senator was “wrong” and “the majority of the president and republicans who support this legislation are correct.”
It was Senator Rand Paul from the other Republican Kentucky who voted against the bill. He objected to the debt increase and cut to Medicaid, a health program trusted by millions of elderly, disabled and low -income Americans.
On Monday, an Alaska Republican Senator from Sullivan tried to eliminate the concerns about Medicaid, saying, “We will be good in this regard.”
When the bill arrives for a full Senate vote – it is expected late on Monday night or Tuesday morning – Republicans can only provide three flaws to pass the bill.
If they lose three votes, Vice President JD Vance will have to vote for a tie.
The bill would later return to the House of Representatives, where the leadership could come early until Wednesday morning.
While the Republicans control the house, they can only lose a handful of votes. Among some Republicans in the Assembly, there are frustrations about the senate version of the bill, which can vote another close.
House Freedom Caucus, led by the Republic, threatened the Senate version on budget disputes to torpedo.
The Senate said that the proposal has added over $ 650 billion to the national suspension.
“This is not financial responsibility,” they said. “This is not what we accept.”
The democrats in both rooms have largely objected to expenditure interruptions and the proposed extension of tax cuts.
Meanwhile, the Republican discussion focused on how long welfare programs will be cut to extend 3.8 TN (£ 2.8 million) in Trump tax cuts.
According to the Congress Budget Office, which is a non -Partisan Federal Agency, the proposed interruptions may be issued by approximately 12 million Americans under health insurance and add 3.3 TN (£ 2.4 million) debt.
The version of Bill Senators includes tax deductions on the campaign of Trump, such as tax reduction of social security advantages and eliminating taxes on overtime work and tips.
The bill also gives a new $ 5 million borrowing authority to add to a swelling US debt burden – a movement that infuriates the one -time confidant Elon Musk from what many conservatives discussed.
On Monday, Musk has fulfilled his social media duties and promised to finance his rivals to conservatives on the formation of an alternative political party.
“If this crazy expenditure bill passes, the American party will be established the next day,” he wrote.
“Our country needs an alternative to the Democratic-Cumhurist Uniparty, so that people actually have a voice.”
According to the Treasury Ministry, the national debt is currently $ 36 trillion.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called the Congress to address the debt limit until mid -July and may not be able to pay the US invoices in early August.
(Additional reports from Bernd Debusmann JR in the White House)
