The president of USA Donald Trump He trusts to get on Wednesday the Final adoption in the American Congress of his massive Federal Budget Bill to seal its presidential legacy. It covers a package of tax cuts and expenses.
This Tuesday the Senators of the Republican Party approved the package by a voteafter 27 hours of debates. The text will increase national debt and impose greater cuts to the Medicaid Health Insurance Program since its launch in the 1960s.
Although it was approved by the House of Representatives In May, this time he returns there for formal adoption but success is not guaranteed.
Donald Trump’s chainsaw plan, his agenda
“This bill is the agenda of President Trump, and we are making him law,” said the president of the House of Representatives, the Republican Mike Johnsonin a statement. According to him, the Republicans are “prepared to finish the job,” said AFP.
The package meets many of Trump’s electoral promises: It increases military spending, finances a deportation campaign of migrants and mobilizes US $ 4.5 billion to extend its tax relief from the first mandate.
But add US $ 3.3 additional debt billion to the growing country deficit. For his part, Johnson has to negotiate very tight margins since You can only allow three Republican congressmen to vote against And it really has more than 20 openly opposed to the bill.
The text of more than 800 pages passed the Senate filter after A series of settings that on some issues brought him even more to the right. A conservative opposed because he triggers the country’s debt and two moderate by the cuts to medical insurance.
Some estimates place the total number of beneficiaries who will lose their health insurance at 17 million and Numerous hospitals are expected to close. Changes in federal food aid They will make millions of poor Americans lose access to food coupons.
Johnson is confident that Trump will press the undecided and The leader of the camera minority, Hakeem Jeffries, considers him a “shame” And they seem unfortunate “the Republicans of the Chamber for continuing to kneel before the extreme agenda of Donald Trump.”
Donald Trump’s chainsaw plan: US Senate approved the megaproject of law
The Republicans of US Senate They approved this Tuesday For a narrow margin the gigantic package of tax cuts and expenses of President Donald Trump. Now it remains for the project to return to the House of Representatives before it is approved by Congress.
The vote left 50 to 50 and the rackling vote was that of vice president JD Vance. Republican senators Rand Paul, Susan Collins and Thom Tillis They voted against, like the Democrats.
The vote occurs after weeks of fierce internal struggles in the Republican party, in which Trump himself was forced to intervene to convince his republican co -religionists to support his plan.
Source: Ambito
