The House of Representatives adopts the megaproject of Trump budgetary law

Despite the initial opposition of elected officials on his own camp, US President Donald Trump won his bet by succeeding in having his megaproject of budgetary law the day before the deadline he had set.

After the Senate, two days ago, the House of Representatives in turn gave its green light, narrowly, to the text of 869 pages focused around the flagship promises of the republican leader.

With meetings at the White House, telephone conversations, public criticism and even threats, the American president ultimately convinced a sufficient number of refractory republicans: the text was adopted in the Chamber at 218 votes against 214.

Everything was an absolute disaster under the radical democratic regime, Woke and Progressive Biden-Harris, and we made our best, in a great and beautiful bill, to repair everything we couldsaid the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, during a press conference after the adoption of the text.

VICTOIREfor its part quickly proclaimed the White House on the social network X with a photo of the president wearing a partisan cap with his slogan Make its greatness to America and dancing.

On Monday, the adoption of the bill in the Senate required the preponderant vote of the Vice-President JD Vance.

The American president wanted to The great and beautiful bill -The nickname he had given to this budgetary initiative and of which the Republicans made the official name-on his desk before July 4, day of the United States independence festival.

White house spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said he would promulgate the text on Friday afternoon.

It is the first major legislative victory of Donald Trump, who has so far governed by decrees, without relying on the congress.

This mammoth project makes permanent tax cuts dating from its first mandate, which expired at the end of the year, largely subtracts the tips and overtime of taxable income, increases the financing of the defense and the security of the borders, and substantially raises the ceiling of the debt.

In the same breath, it considerably reduces the Medicaid budget, the health insurance of the least wealthy, and saber in food aid to the poorest, in addition to revealing the measures to combat climate change implemented under the administration of the Democrat Joe Biden.

A legislative measure which digs the deficit

According to estimates by the Congress Budget Office (CBO), a non -partisan Federal Agency, public spending will be reduced by US $ 1200 billion, while state revenues will drop by 4500 billion. Despite the extent of the expected compressions, the bill will add US $ 3300 billion to the United States public debt within 10 years, according to the CBO.

Within the Republican ranks, tax conservatives also opposed the considerable increase in debt, while some moderate deplored compressions in the social net.

What are Republicans ??? What are you trying to prove ??? the president reproached them on his platform Truth Social Shortly after midnight. Maga is not happy and it costs you voiceshe said.

The vast majority of recalcitrant elected officials have entered the rank, including the Texan representative Keith Self, for whom this bill constituted a bankruptcy on moral and fiscal levels.

Only two of them, Thomas Massie and Brian Fitzpatrick, maintained their opposition. The first criticized the impact of the debt project and the second is opposed to compressions in the Medicaid regime.

The dissensions in their camp had led Republican officials to leave a procedural vote for almost nine hours.

According to the Washington Postsome elected officials who had publicly expressed their opposition to the bill have said that they have obtained assurance that some of their concerns would later be taken into account in presidential decrees or by other measures.

Addressing the media while he was preparing to leave for Iowa, Donald Trump did not bring clarification.

To a reporter who asked him if he had concluded agreements with these representatives, the president responded in the affirmative: Yes, I think I did it [avec] Some of them. Asked about the content of these agreements, he said the opposite a few seconds later. No agreements. What I did was talk about the quality of the bill! It was not difficulthe replied.

Mike Johnson, however, said he doubted that the White House took many commitments or [fait beaucoup] of specific concessions.

This new victory by Donald Trump once again illustrates his grip on his party, traditionally hostile to deficits and customs duties and firmer against Russia.

I think I have more able to nowalso replied the American president, who was asked about the difference between his two terms.

“People will die”

Powerless to block a legislative initiative they decry, the Democrats nevertheless hammered their opposition.

Delaying the holding of the vote on the bill, the leader of the Democrat minority of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, who started to address his colleagues shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday morning, broke a record by speaking for 8 hours and 44 minutes.

He denounced a repugnant abomination who will deprive vulnerable Americans of health insurance and food assistance.

People will die. I am sad. I would never have imagined to find myself one day to say, in the hemicycle, that this place has become a crime scene. And the Democrats of the Chamber refuse to be associated with it.

According to CBOat least 17 million Americans will lose their health insurance by 2034, mainly due to compressions in Medicaid, but also, in particular, because of changes affecting the law on health care adopted under Barack Obama.

According to independent analyzes, including that of CBOthe wealthiest Americans will be the main beneficiaries of this budgetary law, while the least wealthy will see their disposable income fall.

The surveys indicate that the legislative text collects the support of a minority of Americans.

Democrats, a minority in the two chambers of the congress, hope that the Republicans will pay the prize in the mid-term elections in November 2026.

Earlier this week, the multimillionaire Elon Musk, a former ally of Donald Trump responsible for slashing in public spending, threatened to launch a new training, theAmerica Partythe day after the adoption of the budgetary bill he judged ridicule.

With information from NBC News and New York Times