Senate Republicans Eye Changes to Trump’s Megabill after Chamber’s victory

Chamber Republicans won a victory in May with their advance of the “Great and Beautiful Bill” of President Donald Trump, full of negotiations and commitments on thorny political issues that almost did not happen in the lower chamber.

Next week, the Senate Republicans will get their turn to analyze the colossal package, and these are changes that could be a hard sale for the president of the house Mike Johnson, as well, that only three votes can be lost.

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Congressional Republicans are in a dead sprint to achieve the megabill, full of desires for Trump policy on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and national debt, at the President’s table in early July.

Trump has launched his support behind the current product, but said on Friday during a press conference at the Oval Office that he expected the package to be “jury a little”.

“It will be negotiated with the Senate, with the House, but the end result is that it expands Trump’s tax cuts,” he said.

“If it is not approved, you will have a 68%tax increase,” the President continued. “It will rise by 68%. This is a number that no one has heard before. You will have a massive increase in taxes.”

The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., has an identical margin to Johnson and will have to cultivate the support of a GOP of the Senate who wants to put his own imprints on the bill.

Senators said that they would like to make changes to a letter of proposals for houses, including medicaid reforms and the time line to eliminate green energy credits, among others, and have scolded the rise in the state and local tax deduction leg (Salt) promoted by moderate Republicans from the House.

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Thune said that many Republicans are largely in favor of the fiscal part of the bill, which aims to make Trump’s first term fiscal policy permanent and, in particular, fiscal policies that are “stimulating, which are proof, to generate the highest growth in the economy.”

Much of the debate and the potential retouching, from the upper chamber, would focus on whether the house’s offer has depth cuts, he said.

“When it comes to the expense of the equation, this is a unique moment in time and in history where we have the chamber and the Senate and the White House and an opportunity to do something significant about controlled government spending,” said Thune.

The package of the house set a point of reference of $ 1.5 trillion on expense cuts over the next decade.

Some in the Senate GOP would see that the number increased marginally to at least $ 2 trillion, largely because the tax part of the package is expected to add about $ 4 trillion to the deficit, according to the recent findings of the Joint Commission on Taxation.

“There are so many great things in this bill,” Senator Roger Marshall, R-Kan, told Fox News News. “The only thing I would like to do is try to reduce the spending and I would love to get a little out of many places, instead of a lot of one place.”

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Others, such as Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Want the package cuts to return to pre-lemons expenditure levels, which would mean approximately $ 6 trillion in expenses.

Johnson has remained in opposition to the current bill and warned that “no pressure” of Trump could change his mind.

“President Trump made a lot of promises,” Johnson said in an event in Wisconsin on Wednesday. “My promise has been constantly to stop mortgaging the future of our children. OK, so I think that is enough [Republicans] To stop this process until the President, our leadership, becomes serious to return to a pre-pandemic level. “

Others care about Medicaid spending proposals, which Congress Republicans have largely participated as reform efforts designed to round up waste, fraud and abuse in the program used by millions of North -Americans.

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The House Package would reduce $ 700 million from the program, according to a report by the Non -Party Congressional Congress Budget (CBO), and some Senate Republicans have indicated that they would not support changes if the benefits for their voters are reduced.

Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., He warned in an OP-ED for the New York Times last month that the reducing benefits was “morally wrong and politically suicide.” In the meantime, Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, raised concern about what would propose the program cuts in the rural hospitals of his state.

“I cannot support proposals that create harder for our hospitals and suppliers that are already on the shores of insolvency,” he said.