Republican elected officials in the US Congress did not succeed late Wednesday to overcome their divisions on Wednesday and advance towards a final adoption of the vast budgetary bill of Donald Trump, who expressed his impatience in the late delay.
After the Senate, which approved it right Tuesday, the House of Representatives was to decide on Wednesday on this text of several thousand billions of dollars.
But the displayed opposition of several conservative elected officials forced Republican officials to put a brake on the process, leaving a procedural vote for more than seven hours.
With a majority of only eight seats, the presidential party cannot afford more than three defections in its own camp.
However when midnight sounded in Washington, five voices “against” were identified among the Republicans for the last procedural ballot before the final vote, therefore enough to sink the text.
Elected officials, however, have the possibility of modifying their vote before the voting closure and Mike Johnson, the Republican President of the House of Representatives, has embarked on work to the body to change their minds in his majority.
Late Wednesday, he announced on Fox News that he would keep the ballot open “as long as it will be”.
– “Maga is not happy” –
Donald Trump began to raise the tone.
“What are the Republicans waiting for ??? What are you trying to prove ???”, he said on his social social platform shortly after midnight.
“Maga is not happy, and it costs you voices,” added upperfect president of 79 years in capital letters, in reference to her movement “Make America Great Again”.
This “big and beautiful law”, as he baptized, represents the keystone of his economic program. For several weeks, he has been pressing the Congress to adopt it before Friday, the day of the national holiday which he set as a symbolic deadline for the promulgation.
At the top of the bill: the extension of colossal tax credits adopted during the republican first mandate. The elimination of taxation on tips, a flagship promise of its campaign, is also planned, as are additional billions of dollars for defense and the fight against immigration.
Donald Trump promised Wednesday that in the event of the adoption of the text, the United States would experience “an economic renaissance as never seen before”.
According to independent analyzes, the main beneficiaries will however be the wealthiest households, while millions of Americans with modest income could lose their access to public health insurance or food assistance programs.
– “slow down our debt” –
Experts and politicians also point out the expected explosion of the public deficit.
The Congress Budget Office, responsible for non -supported the impact of public finance bills, estimated Tuesday that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” would increase the debt by more than 3.400 billion dollars by 2034. The extension of tax credits alone would cost 4.500 billion.
“I came to Washington to help brake our national debt,” said Keith Self, an elected representative in the House, to justify having voted “no” during the procedural vote.
The elected Texan accused his colleagues from the Senate of having “trampled” the version previously adopted in the room, before adding that in the end “it is a question of morality”.
To partially compensate for the widening of the deficit, the Republicans plan to slash in Medicaid, a public health insurance program on which millions of Americans depend on low incomes.
A drastic reduction in the SNAP program, the main food aid in the country, is also planned, as well as the abolition of numerous tax incentives for the renewable energies adopted under Joe Biden.
Unsurprisingly, the Democrats oppose the text as a whole.
Their leader in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, described him as “repugnant monstrosity” who “will make ordinary Americans suffer” in favor of the richest.
Posted on July 3 at 06:58 am, AFP
