President Donald Trump urged other Republicans in the United States Senate to advance in his broad draft Law on Fiscal Expenditures and Expenses, while the intransigent and moderate of the party fought for the cuts of proposed expenses.
Republican leaders are pressing to obtain what Trump calls his great act of Big Beautiful Bill through Congress and his desk before the vacation of the independence day of July 4. The bill would add billions to the national debt of $ 36.2 billion.
Senate Republicans disagree on the details of the bill. Some want to make less cuts to social programs, including Medicaid medical care for low -income Americans, while intransigent want deep expenses cuts to limit federal deficit growth.
Some legislators have said that it could take until August to approve the bill.
“This issue of the Rural Hospital is really becoming a ballast,” said Republican Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri to journalists. He was referring to provisions that rural hospitals fear would reduce their funds and may cause some to stop operating.
Republican senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who faces a potentially difficult 2026 re -election campaign, told reporters that a possible proposal to create a rural hospital fund of $ 100 billion would not be enough to maintain those completely operational facilities.
Another influential republican, Senator Susan Collins de Maine, who is also in re -election next year, told journalists that he still has concerns about the funds of the bill for Medicaid in general.
“For my friends in the Senate, find yourself in a room if necessary, do not go home and make the deal this week. Work with the house so they can pick it up and pass it, immediately. No one goes on vacation until it ends,” Trump said in a publication on social networks.
The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, who attended the Republican lunch of the Senate on Tuesday, he said later that Congress was on the way to fulfill the deadline of July 4.
“I am sure that what the Senate is going to the camera will move very quickly,” said Besent.
Senate emerging legislation would extend the provisions that expire Trump’s tax cuts in 2017, finance their repression in immigration and increase military spending.
The Senate bill would also raise the limit of the federal debt in another $ 5 billion, adding pressure per share as the government is directed towards an “date X” for a potentially catastrophic breach this summer.
“We are approaching the warning track,” Besent told journalists.
‘Buster de Debt’
The version approved last month by the House of Representatives of the House of Representatives could increase the federal deficit by at least $ 2.8 billion, despite an impulse in economic activity, said the non -partisan Congress Budget office last week.
Independent analysts predict that the Senate version would cost more.
“Republicans know that their plan is a debt buster, but they don’t care,” Senate Senate Senate Schumer from New York told reporters. “They are actually putting this country in debt to tax cuts,” he added. “They know it.”
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, said that his camera is on the way to approve the bill this week. The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said his chamber would take the legislation quickly. Republicans control both cameras of Congress.
“Hopefully, when the thrust comes to push and everyone has to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’, we will get the number of votes we need,” said Thune, citing the number of republican priorities in the legislation.
The debate has been aggravated by a series of opinions of the parliamentarian of the non -partisan Senate, which is ruling what elements of the bill comply with the procedure that Republicans are using to avoid the filibuster of 60 votes of the Senate. The bill cannot be approved without overlooking the filibuster because the solid opposition of the Senate Democrats will not allow 60 votes to be obtained in the 100 -seat Senate.
The parliamentarian has blocked the provisions that would reduce the expenditure for financial guards, allow gas and oil projects on the coast to elude environmental reviews and obtain savings from food assistance programs for the poor and the elimination of green tax credits.
These decisions have caused alarm among the intransigent Republicans of the House of Representatives, who could block the legislation if they return to their camera with those absent provisions.
“It seems to me that the parliamentarian is killing the bill. She is taking out all the cuts of conservative expenses that with great care, with a shaving advantage, we passed in the house,” said representative Keith Self, a prominent hard alineator.
Thune has repeatedly ruled out the possibility of canceling the parliamentarian, whose role is widely seen by legislators as vital for the integrity of the Senate.
But Republicans have been able to gain the approval of the parliamentarian reviewing the language of some previously blocked provisions.
