Trump’s megabill lands in the House after Senate passes it
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives took the reins of President Donald Trump after the Senate’s challenging negotiations and last -minute agreements.
Now, the Republican speaker Mike Johnson is looking at a uncertain way of the bill through the room, in which several members of the conference, where several members of the conference exports their objections to the Senate approved version of the bill.
The last vote in the Senate was 51-50, and Vice President JD Vance was given a tie-breaking vote.
“I do not work for the Senate Parliamentarians. I work for people,” Rep. Andy ogles, r-tenn., written X Tuesday afternoon.
He called the senate version of the bill as “Dud” and replaced it with a “strong home bill we passed weeks ago”.
Representative Ralph Norman, RS.C. is reported to be against the bill. Punchbowl.
Tuesday afternoon, it was unclear how many parliamentary republics opposed the latest version of the invoice.
Two Republican, representative Kentucky Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson of Ohio voted against the home version of the bill in May, and is now expected to do it again.
Andy Harris from Maryland, chaired by Hardline House Freedom Caucus, made a gift for the last time.
If each seating member votes, Johnson may only lose three votes in his room and still exceed the legislation in the party line vote.
If Republicans try to vote on Wednesday, they may have a problem of participation.
In the afternoon of Tuesday, strong storms in the Washington area forced the cancellation of flights, and some members did not return to Washington.
Home members are not allowed to vote remotely, so if there is no member in Washington, their votes are not counted.
Further complexity of Johnson’s efforts, the rapid approach of the Republicans is the last date of July 4.
However, Trump has softened his tone in the last date of July 4 in recent days.
Nevertheless, the draft law cannot be sent to Trump’s table until the Parliament Senate has been significantly changed since the House of the Senate has passed the house on May 22 with 215-214 votes.
Since then, Parliament Republicans have been giving alarm about some parts of the Senate package, including deeper interruptions in Medicaid and a higher general price tag.
The Senate version also includes an increase of 5 trillion dollars on the debt ceiling and the hike of $ 4 trillion approved by the home is significantly higher.
One analysis According to the Congress Budget Office, the Senate Draft can add more than 3.9 trillion dollars to the national debt, which is another point of pain for financial conservative parliamentary republicans.
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