Trump signs his budgetary law at the White House

(Washington) President Donald Trump promulgated his program for tax alleys and public spending on Friday.

Surrounded by republican legislators and members of his cabinet, Donald Trump signed this billion US dollars bill in the White House, then brandished the hammer that the president of the Chamber, Mike Johnson, had offered him and which was used for the final adoption of the bill on Thursday.

Against sometimes improbable probabilities, Donald Trump has achieved his objective: celebrating a historic – and controversial – legislative victory in time for the nation’s birthday.

Hunting planes and a stealthy bomber crossed the sky over the annual picnic of July 4 at the White House, while Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump came out on the Balcony of the White House.

“America wins, wins, wins like never before,” said Donald Trump, evoking the bombing campaign last month against the Iranian nuclear program, which this overview was aimed, according to him, to honor. “Promises made, promises held, and we kept them. »»

The White House was decorated with red, white and blue banners for the usual festivities of July 4. The US Navy Orchestra has played patriotic steps and, in a typical Trumpian touch, the tunes of pop icons from the 1980s, Chaka Khan and Huey Lewis. The two separate overflights framed the appearance of Donald Trump and the national anthem interpreted by the orchestra.

Democrats have denounced this bill, calling it as a gift to the rich who would deprive millions of people with low income from their health insurance, their food aid and their financial stability.

“I would never have thought that I would be in the House of Representatives to say that it is a crime scene,” said the New York Democrat leader, Hakeem Jeffries, during a record speech that delayed the adoption of the bill of more than eight hours. It is a crime scene, we attack the health, security and well-being of the American people. »»

The law extends tax reductions of several US dollars decided by Donald Trump in 2017 and reduces medication and food vouchers by 1,200 billion. It provides for a massive strengthening of immigration controls.

The Congress impartial auditor provides that nearly 12 million additional people will lose their health insurance due to this law.

The law was adopted Thursday by the House of Representatives during a largely partisan vote, ending months of pressures from the Republican Party to bring together most of its legislative priorities in a single budgetary bill, likely to be adopted without the Democrats of the Senate being able to block it indefinitely by obstruction.

It was adopted by a single voice in the Senate. The Republican of Caroline du Nord Thom Tillis announced that he would not imagine himself after having attracted the wrath of Donald Trump by opposing it. Vice-president JD Vance had to express the preponderant voice.

In the House of Representatives, where two Republicans voted against, one of them, the non -conformist curator Tom Massie of Kentucky, has also become the target of the well -funded political operation of Donald Trump.

3300 billion US of additional deficit

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that this plan will dig the deficit of US 3300 billion over the decade and that 11.8 million additional people will be without health coverage.

Donald Trump exulted from his political victory Thursday evening in Iowa, where he attended the launch of the events celebrating 250^e Country anniversary next year.

“I would like to thank the Republican members of the Congress, because what they did is incredible,” he said. The president deplored that the Democrats voted against the bill, because “they hate Trump, but I hate them too”.

This bill will certainly be a point of friction during the mid-term elections next year, and the Democrats are developing ambitious plans: gatherings, registration campaigns on the electoral lists, propaganda campaigns, turned by bus and even a vigil of several days, all intended to highlight the most controversial points.

Upon his return to Washington on Friday morning, Donald Trump described the “very popular” bill, even if the polls suggest that public opinion is, at best, mixed.

For example, a Washington Post/Ipsos survey has revealed that a majority of American adults are favorable to the increase in the annual dependent tax credit and the abolition of tip tax, and that around half of them support the obligation to work for certain adults benefiting from Medicaid.

On the other hand, the survey has revealed that the majority of those questioned oppose the reduction of federal funding for food aid for low -income families and spending about 45 billion US for the construction and maintenance of detention centers for migrants. About 60 % deemed “unacceptable” that the bill increases the American debt by 36,000 billion US of more than 3,000 billion US over the next decade.