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The US Senate launched a marathon voting on the spreading budget, which is crucial for President Donald Trump’s agenda, but the expense plan hangs in equilibrium after the weeks of rich negotiations.
Republicans – who control the two chambers of Congress – are divided into how much to reduce the prosperity programs to extend tax benefits in one great bill.
The President’s party is engaged in the legislation at the fourth state holiday imposed this week.
If this measure understood the Senate, he will have to return to another vote to the House of Representatives, which took her own version of the bill last month.
On Monday, the senators fastened through the Capitol halls, making their way to the floor for different voices, and then back into their private meetings for meetings, where they went out of grievances by the appearance of journalists.
Currently, senators are arguing for or against to add amendments to almost 1000 pages in the process called “Voting-A-Rama”, which can entail up to 20 hours of discussion.
The session is expected to continue through the night on Tuesday morning.
“We are still obviously improving a few things,” Senate leader John Tun said on Monday.
Amendment to the Medicaid reduction proposal recently proposed by Senator Florida Rick Scott may lead to approximately 20 million Americans to lose health insuranceAccording to one of the estimates.
When asked about the report, Tun said there were “a lot of analyzes”.
“The fact that (Scott) does not do the bill will not come into force until 2031. So I am not sure how you can make an argument that it eliminates any health insurance tomorrow,” Tun said.
The Democrats, which have repeatedly announced the bill are expected, especially for reducing health insurance for millions of poor Americans, will use all 10 discussions, and the Republicans will probably not.
Senator Adam Shiff, the California Democrat and the long -standing critic of Trump, called the bill “terrible”.
He said the BBC that it was not sure that Trump’s passage will be fulfilled by this Friday by Friday, when America celebrates Independence Day, adding that even if they did it, “who knows what is happening in the ward.”
Speaking at the White House on Monday, spokesman Carolina Levit said that Trump is “confident”, the bill will be adopted and still expects him to be on the table at his time.
Senator John Fetterman, Democrat Pennsylvania, turned out to be disappointed on Monday after lunch after a sign of the final draft bill appeared.
“My God, I just want to go home,” he said, adding that extended negotiations and voice rounds made him miss his “all trip to the beach.”
“I don’t think it is very useful to bring people to a wicked hour,” he said.
On Sunday, the Democrats used a political maneuver to stop the progress of the bill, urging the Senate officials to read all 940 pages of the bill up, the process that took 16 hours.
The move took place in a few weeks of public discussion, and the Senate narrowly moved to a budget bill in 51-49 votes over the weekend.
Two Republicans on the side of the Democrats in voting against the opening of discussions, arguing further changes in the legislation.
One of these Republicans, North Carolina’s Senator Tom Tilis, announced its retirement After that, he voted and stated that the legislation violated the promises that Trump and the Republicans made voters.
“Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw materials that are not damn about the people they promised to present on the company’s way,” Tilis wrote in his message.
On Monday, the White House responded angrily to Tilisa’s comments, and Levitus told reporters that the senator was “just mistaken” and “the president and the vast majority of the Republicans who support the legislation are right.”
The second Republican, who voted against the movement of the bill, was Senator Rand Paul from Kentuck. He objected to the increase in debt and reduces the Medicaid healthcare program, which is based on millions of elderly, disabled and low -income Americans.
On Monday, Senator Dan Sullivan, Republican Alaska, sought to stop problems about reducing Medicaid, saying that “we will all be fine.”
If the bill goes for a full vote in the Senate – it is expected either on Monday on Monday night, or early on Tuesday – Republicans can only allow three defects to adopt the bill.
If they lose three votes, Vice President J. D. Vens will have to vote.
Then the bill will return to the House of Representatives, where the leadership advised a complete vote on the Senate Bill may come already on Wednesday morning.
While Republicans control the house, they can also lose only a few votes. There are disappointments in the Senate version of the bill among some Republicans in the House, which can make another close voice.
The fiscal hawks of the Kaukus “Freedom under the leadership of the Republican House” threatened to torpedo the Senate version of budget disagreements.
The Senate’s proposal adds a national deficit of more than $ 650 billion, the group reports on social media on Monday.
“This is not a fiscal responsibility,” they said. “This is not what we have agreed to.”
Democrats in both houses greatly objected to costs and the proposed expansion of tax benefits.
Meanwhile, Republican discussions have focused on how much to reduce the prosperity programs to extend $ 3.8 TN (£ 2.8) in Trump’s tax benefits.
The proposed cuts can deprive nearly 12 million Americans from the health insurance coverage and add a debt of 3.3 tH (2.4 pounds), according to the Congress budget, a non -partisan federal agency.
In the near future, the version of the bill senators will vote for reducing the taxes that Trump trained, such as the tax deduction for social security assistance, as well as the elimination of taxes on overtime and tips.
The bill will also allow 5 dollars in new borrowings that will add debt edema to the US is a step that contradicts that many conservatives argued and angry trusted Trump Elon Musk.
On Monday, Musk issued positions on social media, promising to finance applicants for any conservative who votes for the bill and created an alternative political party.
“If this source bill on costs, the America Party will be created the next day,” he wrote on X.
“Our country needs an alternative to the democratic republican one -party so that people actually have a voice.”
According to the Ministry of Finance, the state debt is 36 trillion. Dollars.
Finance Minister Scott Igent urged Congress to resolve the debt limit by mid -July and warned whether the US could not pay its accounts in August.
(With additional reporting from Bernd Debusman -Younger in the White House)