Donald Trump gleaned an important legislative victory on Tuesday with the accuracy of his pharaonic budgetary bill in the American Senate that includes massive tax credits, but also large health cuts.
At the end of more than 26 hours of votes on dozens of amendments, the Republican senators finally managed to overcome their disputes to adopt this ‘great and beautiful law’, as the American president baptized.
But the case was played in a pocket handkerchief. Despite a republican majority of 53 seats out of 100, the vote ended equally at 50-50, and it was the vice-president JD Vance who was responsible for giving the last ‘for’, as the Constitution wants.
Donald Trump had minimized the opposition in his own camp before the vote. ‘It will come in, it will pass, and we are going to be very happy, “he told the press when he arrived in Florida.
If the Senate had been engaged in a legislative marathon for two days, it is the House of Representatives which is now launched in a sprint to adopt the revised version of the bill before Friday.
For almost a week, Donald Trump has been doing forcing to parliamentarians to pass this flagship text before July 4, the day of the national holiday that the 79-year-old republican has set as a symbolic deadline for promulgation.
Deficit explosion
Main challenges of the ONE Big Beautiful Bill ‘: the extension of colossal tax credits adopted during its first mandate, but also the elimination of taxation on tips, or additional billions of dollars for defense and the fight against immigration.
But experts as well as politicians point to the expected explosion of the federal state deficit. The Congress’s Budget Office, responsible for non -supported the impact of public finance bills, estimates that the text would increase the debt by more than $ 3000 billion by 2034.
The extension of ‘Trump tax credits’ would alone cost 4500 billion. To compensate for it in part, the Republicans have planned in particular to slash in Medicaid, a public health insurance program on which millions of Americans depend on modest income.
A drastic reduction in the SNAP program, the main food aid in the country, is also on the program, as well as the abolition of numerous tax incentives with renewable energies adopted under Joe Biden.
Donald Trump, who made the bill the cornerstone of his economic program for this second mandate, faced the marked reluctance of certain senators on his own camp. Three out of 53 finally opposed it.
Quarrels
Now subject to the House of Representatives, the text should also undergo the opposition of elected conservatives refractory to the changes made by the Senate to their version. However, the Republicans have only one fine majority there and the Democrats are opposed to the bill to the bill.
To these internal quarrels, was added on Monday the frank and noisy opposition of Elon Musk, who denounced the impact of the text on public debt.
Former close ally of Donald Trump, he had been responsible for slashing in the expenses of the federal state with his Doge commission before the two billionaires are blurred spectacular in the face of the world.
‘We live in a country with a single party: the Party of Pigs who eat,’ cracked the boss of Spacex and Tesla on his social network X.
The richest man on the planet warned: if the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is adopted, he will launch a new party and finance the campaign to the republican primaries of candidates opposed to current parliamentarians.
Donald Trump responded dry on Tuesday, with a barely veiled threat. ‘He is very angry, but you know, he could lose much more than that,’ said the American president, suggesting that he is asking Dog to examine the many cases of Elon Musk companies with the federal state.
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