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The Senate Republicans narrowly advanced a budget bill which is essential on the agenda of President Donald Trump before a self-imposed deadline of July 4.
During a vote of 51 to 49 years largely within the framework of the party, the Senate decided to open a debate on the bill, a first initial obstacle that the Republicans scraped to overcome. Two Republicans joined the Democrats to oppose the decision to take the bill.
Party management had twisted the weapons for the initial vote on the “Big Beautiful Bill” on Saturday, after the release of its latest version – the 940 pages – shortly after midnight.
Republicans were divided on the quantity to reduce social protection programs to extend 3.8 TN (2.8 TN £) in Trump’s tax reductions.
The fate of the Senate bill remains uncertain, because the Republicans of the Chamber continue to compete for the provisions of the bill. Vice-President JD Vance went to the Capitol on Saturday evening to offer an equality break, although the party leaders were able to negotiate majority support without his help.
Meanwhile, the Democrats say that they will train the process to protest the bill, with the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, saying that his party forced Republicans to read the nearly 1,000 pages of text before the Senate could start the debate and potentially take a final vote.
In addition, some Republicans of the House of Representatives expressed their concerns concerning the changes in the version of the Senate of the Bill. The sprawling taxation and the expenditure measure adopted the House of Representatives by a single vote last month.
The version of the Senate of the bill included a series of changes intended to address points of disagreement among the Republicans. However, party leaders had trouble obtaining enough votes.
In a memo sent to the Senate offices, the White House approved the latest bill revisions and called for its adoption.
The memo would have warned that not approving the budget “would be the ultimate betrayal”.
The Republicans Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of Caroline du Nord joined the Democrats to reject the bill.
While the Senate’s vote concluded it, President Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform, that Tillis made a “big mistake”. He wrote that he would meet candidates who “manifest themselves by wanting to run in primary against” Senator Thom “Tillis”.
However, the bill won certain Republicans who had expressed skepticism, including the centrist republicans Lisa Murkowski from Alaska and Susan Collins from Maine. Ron Johnson du Wisconsin initially voted against, but changed his vote at the end of the voting session.
The latest version has been designed to appease certain republican traits of the back-ban.
Other amendments incorporate the comments of the Senate parliamentarian, an official who examines the bills to ensure that they comply with the procedures of the Chamber.
It includes an increase in the financing of rural hospitals, after some moderate parties argued that the initial proposal would harm their voters.
There are also changes to the additional nutrition aid program (SNAP), which offers food advantages to low -income Americans.
Under the last bill, Alaska and Hawaii would temporarily be exempt from an obligation proposal for certain States to begin to place the bill of the program, which is currently entirely funded by the federal government.
The revision comes after the two Republican senators in Alaska have put pressure on an exemption.
The legislation still contains some of its main components, in particular the extension of the tax reductions adopted by the Republicans in 2017, as well as the addition of new reductions on which Trump campaigned, such as a tax deduction on social security benefits and the elimination of taxes on work and extension councils.
More controversial measures are also in place, including restrictions and requirements on Medicaid – a health care program used by millions of older, disabled and low -income Americans.
Democrats have strongly criticized this bill, saying that it will limit access to affordable health care for millions of Americans.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 7.8 million people would not be insured due to these Medicaid cuts.
Senator Patty Murray, a Washington State Democrat, went to social networks on Saturday to say that the bill contains “the biggest health care cuts in history”.
Another criticism of the bill is Elon Musk, who wrote on X on Saturday that the last iteration of the bill “will destroy millions of jobs in America and will cause immense strategic damage to our country”.
Musk challenged the taxes that the bill offers on solar and wind energy projects.
The bill now needs a simple majority to clean the Senate. Republicans holding 53 seats out of 100, plus a break in equality by vice-president JD Vance, the party can only afford three defections.
