(Washington) Donald Trump hopes to win a major legislative victory on Wednesday with the possible final adoption at the US Congress of his imposing budgetary bill. But faced with dissensions within the Republican majority, the vote promises to be more than tight.
After the Senate, which approved on Tuesday – just already – this text of several thousand billions of dollars, the House of Representatives must rule with a potentially awaited vote in the morning in Washington.
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Without certainty, however, on the outcome of this one, since many elected representatives of the republican majority have publicly expressed their aversion to certain aspects of the legislation.
This “big and beautiful law”, as the American president baptized it, represents the keystone of his economic program. He pressed the Congress to adopt it before Friday, the day of the national holiday which he set as a symbolic deadline for the promulgation.
“Our country will win a fortune this year, more than all our rivals, but only if the big and beautiful law is adopted!” “, He launched on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday.
At the top of the bill of this vast bill: the extension of colossal tax credits adopted during the republican first mandate (2017-2021). 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.
“The greatest winners will be the Americans,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday.
“Monstrosity”
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.
Experts and politicians also point out the expected explosion of the public deficit.
The Congress’s Budget Office, responsible for non -supported the impact of public finance bills, estimated Tuesday that the text would increase debt by more than $ 3400 billion by 2034.
The extension of tax credits alone would cost 4500 billion alone. To partially compensate for it, the Republicans plan to slash in Medicaid, a public health insurance program on which millions of Americans depend on low incomes.
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The chief of the minority of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, speaks on the marches of the Capitol before the vote in the House of Representatives on the final adoption of the budget bill of President Donald Trump, in Washington, on July 2, 2025.
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, called him as a “repugnant monstrosity” which “will make ordinary Americans suffer” for the benefit of the richest.
Storms
On the republican side, support for the text is as far from unanimous, between ultraconservatives indignant with such a strong increase in the deficit and moderate opposite to the cuts in Medicaid and Snap. Several of them have already announced that they would vote against the version revised by the Senate.
“It is hard for me to imagine that he will pass as is. There are incredibly bad things in there, “the Republican Andy Biggs told Ktar News, a radio from his state, Arizona.
With an extremely fine majority, republican officials can only afford a handful of defections.
Tuesday, Donald Trump had urged the refractory to entering the rank, calling for “the republicans in the chamber to unite” and “ignore those who sometimes make the interesting (you know who you are!)”.
Another variable could rebound the cards: the weather.
Many elected representatives of the House had left for their constituencies awaiting the vote in the Senate and were to return Tuesday to Washington. But strong thunderstorms have affected the American capital and led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
With an uncertain participation on Wednesday morning, the leader of the House of Representatives, the Republican Mike Johnson, may well decide to delay the final vote.
