Washington – President Trump's megabill covered by his national agenda on Monday approached Monday to become law, since Republican senators sifted through family procedural obstacles towards a final vote on the legislation that would drastically transform the Tax and Medical Code.
Throughout a marathon voting day, the senators offered amendments to the bill that could finally decide whether to ensure through Congress. If the Senate approves the legislation, as expected to do so for a thin and simple majority and with the bipartisan opposition, then the camera will have to vote for the second time in the final text before going to the president's desk for his signature.
Anticipating the approval of the Senate, the Chamber Rules Committee has already scheduled an audience on how to reconcile the two bills for Tuesday. The White House previously established on July 4 as an objective to obtain the package, called “One Big Beautiful Bill Ley”, approved by both cameras.
But several Republicans still criticize the bill, including the sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who announced that he will not seek re -election in 2026 during the weekend before entering the legislation as a “betrayal” to the voters.
Although the legislation has hundreds of provisions, its largest sweep would cause tax exemptions to be approved in 2017 during Trump's first permanent term, a expensive proposal, before they will expire at the end of this year, while trying to compensate some of those costs with historical cuts to Medicaid and the nutrition nutrition assistance program, the social programs that during the decades had been seen as a third political rails.
Surveys show that Americans widely support the extension of the 2017 tax cuts. Other expensive programs in the bill, including additional funds for border security and defense, also enjoy public support. But surveys indicate that the public disapproves of the bill in general by a margin of two digits due to their cuts to central government programs.
“What do I tell 663,000 people in two or three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by expelling them from Medicaid because financing is no longer there?” Tillis said in a speech on the Senate floor. “The White House people who advise the president not tell him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise.”
Both Paul and Tillis voted against advancing in the bill to a floor vote and have indicated that they will vote “no” in their final approval.
“Republicans are about to make a mistake in medical care and betraying a promise,” Tillis continued. “It is inevitable that this bill in its current form betrayed the promise that Donald J. Trump did in the oval office, or in the cabinet room, when I was there with finance [Committee members] Where he said: “We can go after waste, fraud and abuse in any program.”
Tillis and a handful of his Republican colleagues, including Senator Josh Hawley in Missouri, have expressed concern about the elements of the bill that restricts state taxes to medical care providers, known as the “provider tax”, an essential tool for many states in their efforts to complement the financing of Medicaid.
The Senate parliamentarian has already determined that the provision, among others, does not follow the rules of the chamber and must be eliminated or modified. The parliamentarian stopped another crucial passage for the bill, which introduces a structure for the work requirements for Medicaid.
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) speaks with journalists outside the Chamber on June 30, 2025.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press)
The efforts of Republicans to prohibit the use of Medicaid funds in gender transition care, to cancel regulations that require a minimum personnel relationship in nursing homes and to limit Medicaid access to immigrants were also reduced by the parliamentarian, who continued to review the amendments to the bill as they were introduced on Monday.
The movements of the parliamentarian eat the established cost savings of a bill that is already scheduled to add billions to debt during the next decade, a problem for fiscal hawks in both chambers whose votes will be crucial for the passage.
They also gut the key provisions that were the main priorities for Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, the focus of an intense lobbying campaign by the republican leadership of the Senate after expressing skepticism about several provisions of the legislation. Senator Susan Collins (R-MAINE), who is ready for the re-election of the next cycle, has also expressed concern about her cuts to Medicaid.
“This is a continuous process: the president continues very committed to leadership in both the Senate and in the Chamber,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House Secretary, to journalists in an informative session on Monday. “Understand that legislators want to protect jobs in communities and their districts.”
The Democrats in the Senate have joined in their opposition to the bill, with Mark Kelly, of Arizona, warning the Republicans of the electoral repercussions.
“If they lose their health insurance,” he told MSNBC in an interview, “of course, they will remember.”
But the potential political gain for the Democrats does not prevent the party from trying to improve the legislation, he said, pointing out a series of amendments proposed by the Democratic senators on Monday that would transfer the cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
If the bill finally deletes the Senate, Republicans will only have a handful of votes in the camera left over in a final vote. And several already suggest that they will vote against, including representative David Valadao de California, whose components depend largely on Medicaid.
“I am not a 'yes' necessarily,” said Representative Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska who has announced his retirement. Bacon added that he believes that the version of the Senate has gone too far to gut health programs. “I think we will have difficulty happening.”
An Intrapartía fight has also emerged among Republicans about the fate of green energy tax credits, which several Republican senators, including Murkowski, as well as Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst de Iowa, sought to preserve for several more years. A group of House Republicans had successfully pressed in its version of the bill to accelerate the termination of these credits.
Elon Musk, co -founder of Tesla, and Trump's narrow advisor and benefactor before the two men fell a month ago, renewed their attacks against legislation on Monday, qualifying it as “completely crazy and destructive” for its price.
“It is obvious with the crazy expense of this bill, which increases the debt roof for a record of five billion dollars that we live in a single party: the Porky Pork party!” Musk wrote.
“It's time for a new political party,” he added, “that really cares about people.”
