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The Republicans of the Senate revealed their long -awaited version of the President Donald Trump “Big, beautiful bill”, but its survival is not guaranteed.
Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Lindsey Graham.
The final product of the upper room is the culmination of a sprint of about a month to take the GOP version of the house of the invoice and the mold and modify it. The colossal package includes parts and parts separated from 10 committees from the Senate. With the introduction of the bill, a simple obstacle to the procedure must be adopted in order to start the countdown until the final passage.
When it comes, remains an open question. Friday, the Republicans of the Senate left their daily lunch assuming that a vote could be finished in noon on Saturday.
The conservatives of the Chamber go to war with the Senate on the `Grand Bill ” of Trump of Trump
President Donald Trump on June 18, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)
Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Told Fox News Digital that he had “strongly encouraged” the majority leader in the Senate John Thune, Rs.d., to put the bill on the ground for a vote on Saturday afternoon.
“If you are not satisfied with this, you are invited to fulfill a report of injured injuries, and we will examine it carefully later,” said Kennedy. “But in the meantime, it’s time to start voting.”
But Republicans of the Senate The desire to impose their will on the package and to make changes to the policy adjustments already divisor in the offer of the GOP chamber could condemn the bill and derail the ambitious chronology of Thune to obtain it on the office of Trump by the deadline of July 4.
However, Thune remained firm that the legislators would remain on the CAP and put the bill to Trump by independence day.
When asked if he had the vote to advance the package, Thune said “we will discover it tomorrow”.
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But it was not only the legislators who almost derailed the bill. The Senate parliamentarian, the real final arbitrator of the bill, judged that many provisions reduced by the GOP had not adopted the rules of the Senate.
Any element of the “large and beautiful invoice” must behave with the Byrd rule, which governs the process of budgetary reconciliation and allows a part in the power to browse the legislation by the Senate while along the objective threshold of 60 vote.
The head of majority in the Senate, John Thune, speaks at a press conference after the republican policy of the weekly Senate at the American Capitol on June 17, 2025 in Washington. (Getty Images)
This referred the legislators to the drawing board on a multitude of policies settings, including the changes in the Senate to the tax rate of the Medicaid supplier, the cost sharing for food and other advantages.
Republican leaders, the White House and the disparate factions within the Senate and the GOP chamber met to find common ground on other points of pain, such as refining the ceilings on the deductions of the local and local tax (salt).
Although the controversial variation in the tax rates of Medicaid suppliers was largely the same, a stabilization fund for rural hospitals of 25 billion dollars was included in the bill to help attract possible conservations which have raised fears that the variation in rates to close rural hospitals across the country.
On the salt forehead, there seemed to be a breakthrough on Friday. One source told Fox News that the White House and the House were on board with a new plan that would keep the $ 40,000 ceiling on the bedroom bill and bring it back to $ 10,000 after five years.
But the Republicans of the Senate are those who must accept it at this stage. Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Acted as a mediator in these negotiations, and said he was not sure to know if one of his colleagues “loves it”.
“But I think that, as I have already said, I want to make sure we have enough for people to vote than to vote,” he said.
However, a list of linen of other pocket issues and concerns about the depth of spending reductions in the GO bill has conservatives and moderates in the GOP chamber and in the Senate who fight their chest and promise to vote against the bill.
Republican leaders remain categorical that they will finish the gigantic package and play that some legislators standing against the bill will bolt under the pressure of the White House and the desire to leave Washington for a short break.
Once a request in procedure is adopted, which requires only a simple majority, then begins 20 hours of uniformly divided debate between the two sides of the aisle.
The president of the room, Mike Johnson, speaks at a press conference at US Capitol Building on April 1, 2025 in Washington. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
Democratic legislators should spend all of their 10 hours allocated, while Republicans will probably be down well below their limit. From there begins the “voting-a-rama” process, when legislators can submit an almost endless number of changes to the bill. Democrats will probably try to extract as much pain as possible with messaging changes that will not really pass but will add more and more time to the process.
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Once it is finished, legislators will switch to a final vote. In case of success, the “big and beautiful bill” will come back to the house, where the loudspeaker of the room Mike JohnsonR-La., Will once again become in Corral Dissidents to support legislation. He barely progressed last month, creaking on a margin to a vote.
The Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, hammered the importance of adopting Trump’s bill in time. He met the Senate Republicans during their closed -door lunch and released the message that the advancement of the colossal tax package would greatly contribute to companies more certainty following the president’s rates.
“We need certainty,” he said. “With so much uncertainty, and having the bill on the president’s office by July 4 will give us a great tax certainty, and I believe, accelerating the economy in the third quarter of the year.”