Trump’s bill is floundering in the Senate as Musk attacks intensify
Washington – The dazzling end of President Trump’s alliance with Elon Musk on the White House is on the signature legislation ““A great beautiful bill law” – A draft law under intensive examination in the Senate that Musk wants to be killed on the price tag, thinks that Trump’s presidency is critical for the success of the presidency.
In addition to the financial conservatives who say that it allows unsustainable expenditures, it is faced with strong winds between the senators in the Republican spectrum, including the consequences of balancing expensive tax cuts on the invoice with perpendicular deductions to Medicaid.
Among those who want to reduce expenditures in the draft, Sen is a Republican from Wisconsin. Ron Johnson told NPR to this week.No chance of passing“The Senate is currently in its current form.
“It is easy to be a parent who says’ we will go to Disney World ‘. Johnson, Capitol Hill told journalists to journalists,’ Yes, but we cannot meet it. It is difficult to be a parent.
During Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, his relationship with the world’s richest man and the largest republican donor Musk Change of public insults Between two men. After quitting the role of federal expenditures and government wastes to reduce the waste of government, Musk heard the bill as a “disgust” that would lead to the rise of national debt.
Trump responded, claiming that Musk was against the legislation, because Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla contains deductions of energy tax loans that benefit Tesla. The billionaire entrepreneur may also be angry, Trump Mushed, because NASA’s head advice Rejected – An important position for SpaceX, another musk business.
These comments launched an online tyr that demanded a loan from Musk for Trump’s election victory, and accused the president of a bad -fame child sex criminal connection with Jeffrey Epstein.
Musk wrote to the social media platform X, “Without me, Trump would lose the election, the DEMS would check the Assembly, and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate,” he wrote. “Such a sincerity.”
Musk contributed More than 280 million dollars to Trump and other Republicans during the 2024 presidential campaign. However, the term of office in the White House came at a vertical cost. Tesla’s profit fell 71% in the first three months of the year, and the reputation showed a similar cliffs between consumers. Only on Thursday, as Trump’s fight increased, Tesla’s stock price fell by 14%.
“I don’t even think about Elon” Trump told Dana Bash from CNN In a telephone conversation on Friday. “He has a problem. The poor man has a problem.”
Musk was also quieter on Friday and focused on social media activities to his companies, a sign that both men see mutual destruction in the fights of their fights.
However, the source of blood feuds – invoice – remains on thin ice.
Non -Partisan Congress Budget Office predicts that there may be a bill Add 2.4 trillion dollars to annual deficits During the next decade and 10.9 million people lost their health insurance, 28% of the state population was registered with Medicaid caused GOP senators such as Shelley Moore Capito from Western Virginia, where they are registered to Medicaid.
However, the Senate majority leader John Thune (RS.D.) told journalists, Caucus said that he was open to explor Cuts another popular health program – Medicare, 65 years and older for Americans – if it causes the overall costs of the bill.
“As you know, we are open to suggestions that the waste, fraud, abuse in Medicaid is handled, and now we have suggestions about the waste, fraud and abuse that can withstand any government programs,” he said.
When asked whether the medicare cuts are on the table, Thune said, “I think waste, fraud and abuse is open to discussions.”
Mike Johnson, Speaker of Parliament, a Republican from Louisiana, defended the bill against Musk’s attacks on Friday and said that the calls for killing the bill were “surprise ..
“I don’t argue about how to build rockets with Elon, Johnson said, Johnson said. “I wish he hadn’t discussed with me about how to prepare the legislation.”
Johnson said that his goal was to pass the law until the day of independence before the deputies started traveling home for a series of long summer recesses.
However, there are other reasons for the deadline. The Ministry of Treasury predicts that the country may default unless the congress increases the debt ceiling until August. And in 2017, in accordance with the first Trump administration, tax cuts will end at the end of this year and republicans 68 % Tax increase warns If the bill fails.
