Washington – The historical legislation that would rewrite the Tax Code and impose steep cuts to the programs that provide coupons of medical care and food to the poor approved the Chamber early Thursday, a development that was held by President Trump despite the bill that faces an uncertain future among the Senate Republicans.
The measure, entitled “One Big Beautiful Bill Ley”, would boost the funds for border security and the Department of Defense, would eliminate taxes on tips and overtime, would provide a new tax deduction to the elderly and renew the 2017 tax cuts approved during the first Trump administration. To pay these new financing commitments, the bill proposes to eliminate the benefits of green energy tax approved under President Biden, as well as an estimated $ 1 billion in cuts to Medicaid and the supplementary nutritional assistance program.
Even so, the bill would add so much money to the debt that Congress can be forced to execute cuts in all areas, including hundreds of billions to Medicare, in a process known as kidnapping, according to the budget office of the non -partisan congress.
The vote of the camera fell along the party lines. By opposing the bill, the Trump administration said the Democrats were supporting the greatest tax increase of middle -class Americans in decades, a reference to the next expiration of Trump's tax cuts in 2017 at the end of the year.
Democrats, on the other hand, have accused Republicans to vote for the deepest cuts for medical care in modern times. By creating new barriers for the coverage of Medicaid through the introduction of the requirements of working hours, as well as increasing premiums under the low -price health care law, the CBO and other non -partisan organizations estimate that up to 14 million Americans could lose their insurance coverage.
These drastic changes in the health scenario have pauses several Republican senators.
Senad Susan Collins de Maine has said that she is “very cautious to cut Medicaid.” Senator Josh Hawley in Missouri said “cannot support” substantial cuts to the benefits of Medicaid. And after Thursday's vote, Senator Roger Marshall de Kansas said that material changes should be expected in the Chamber's Law.
“We have to return through that invoice with a fine -tooth comb and improve it,” Marshall said in an interview with Newsmax. “I think there are opportunities in Medicaid to improve that invoice, to ensure that we strengthen it, that we preserve it for those who need it most.”
Any reversal of the Senate of cuts to the Medicaid program could face the resistance of the Caucus of the Freedom of the Chamber during the reconciliation process. The members of that group, which proclaims a commitment to fiscal conservatism, have required even deeper cuts to the Medicaid program.
The representative Andy Harris of Maryland, president of the House of Representatives of the House of Representatives, voted “present” on Thursday, preserving the leverage of the negotiation as the bill opens the way through Capitol Hill.
“I voted to move the bill in the process for the president,” Harris wrote on social networks. “There is still a lot of work to do in reducing the deficit and the end of waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid program.”
The vote occurred hours after Trump met with those retired from the Republican party in the White House. As late as Wednesday afternoon, before meeting with the president, several of those legislators were throwing doubts about the perspectives of the approval of the bill this week, before a deadline of the day of the fallen established by the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, a Republican of Louisiana.
Republican senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was derogatory of Freedom Caucus on Thursday, telling CNN that the cuts for those who are pressing barely would make a dent in the national debt.
“You had your chance,” Graham told Caucus. “Some of these cuts are not real. We are talking about more than a decade, you know, if you make $ 1.5 billion, it is like a percentage and a half. So we do not get high to our horse here, somehow we have made an important advance to reduce spending, because we did not.”
Senator Kevin Cramer, from North Dakota, also mocked the Caucus, describing it as “rich” so that its members give conferences to the Senate Republicans on fiscal conservatism, “and end with a not so conservative bill.” The CBO estimates that the chamber legislation would result in an increase of $ 3.8 billion to the deficit.
If they are approved, the new work requirements to Medicaid would be activated at the end of 2026, just after the mid -period elections. Fiscal green energy credits would be eliminated for any project that is not yet under construction 60 days after the law enters into force.
The limit of the state and local fiscal deduction, known as PALT, will increase to $ 40,000 from $ 10,000, gradually gradually for individuals and homes that earn more than $ 500,000. And while the president campaigned in a promise to eliminate taxes on Social Security, a parliamentary rule prevented Republicans from including a complete cut. On the other hand, the bill proposes an improved fiscal deduction for people over up to $ 4,000.
In Truth Social, the president's social networks, Trump wrote that the bill is “it could be said that the most significant legislation that will be signed in the history of our country!”
“There is no time to lose,” he added. Johnson, the speaker, has established the objective of sending the bill to the president's desk for Independence Day.
Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the president's team was “preparing” the negotiations with the Senate now that the bill has approved the Chamber. “We'll see how it goes,” he said.
“The 'One Big Beautiful Bill' is called 'One Big Beautiful Bill' for a reason, because it is a unique bill that covers almost everything that this president could desire for the American public. It offers many of his main campaign promises. So we surely want to see that those campaign promises sign in law,” Leavitt said. “He expects them to take care of this bill and send it to their desk as soon as possible.”
The two Republicans of the Chamber who voted against the bill, Thomas Massie de Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio, should face main challenges for their challenge to the president's directive, Leavitt added.
“What is the alternative, would you ask those members of Congress? Did they want to see a tax walk? Did they want to see our country go to bankruptcy? That is the alternative for them that try to vote,” he said. “The president believes that the Republican party must be unified.”
