- The procedure vote prepares the scenario for the night debate.
- Changes made to Medicaid, state and local tax provisions.
- The non -partisan group says that Bill would add $ 4 billion to the debt.
Washington: The United States Senate advanced in prosecutor and the expense bill of President Donald Trump on Saturday, with billionaire Elon Musk warning that the bill “would destroy millions of jobs” and “would cause immense strategic damage to the United States.
Musk criticized the plan as “completely crazy and destructive”, saying that he delivered subsidies to obsolete industries while undermining those of the future.
Their comments occurred after a key procedural vote approved 51–49, which increases the probabilities that legislators can approve the “great and beautiful bill” of Trump “in the next few days, which is his main legislative priority.
The procedural vote, which would begin to discuss the Megabill of 940 pages to finance the main immigration, border, fiscal and military cutting priorities of Trump, began after hours of delay.
Then he remained open for more than three hours of detention when three Republican senators, Thom Tillis, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul, joined the Democrats to oppose the legislation. Three others, Senators Rick Scott, Mike Lee and Cynthia Lummis, negotiated with Republican leaders at night in the hope of ensuring greater expenses of expenses.
In the end, Wisconsin Senator Johnson changed his vote of himself, leaving only Paul and Opposite Tillis among the Republicans.
Trump was monitoring the vote of the Oval office late at night, said a senior White House official.
The Megabill would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were Trump’s main legislative achievement during his first mandate as president, would reduce other taxes and increased spending on military and border security.
Non -partisan analysts estimate that a version of Trump’s fiscal and spending expenses bill would add Billions to the US government debt of $ 36.2 billion.
The Democrats fiercely opposed the bill, saying that their fiscal cutting elements would disproportionately benefit the rich at the expense of social programs in which low -income Americans depend.
Chuck Schumer, the main Senate Democrat, demanded that the bill be read aloud before the debate could begin, saying that the Senate Republicans were fighting to approve a “Radical Law Project.”
“If the Republicans of the Senate do not tell the American people what is in this bill, then the Democrats will force this camera to read it from beginning to end,” said the New York Democrat.
