Washington – As the republican leaders of the Senate lead to a massive bill for the agenda of President Donald Trump before July 4, they are juggling with a series of demands in competition.
Some senators are genuine threats to vote against the legislation, while others are expected to support it at the end after using their demands to shape it. Several of them have complicated political considerations. Republicans who speak more aloud indicate a variety of ways in which the bill of the House of Representatives can change in the Senate, since party leaders seek to relieve enough of their concerns.
With all the Democrats that are expected to vote against the package, the Republicans will need at least 50 votes to approve it, since Vice President JD Vance could break a tie.
Here are seven key senators to see.
Rand Paul
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky. It has launched the increase in military spending, the enormous increase in deficits and, in particular, the increase in the $ 5 billion debt limit. Paul supports a key part of the package, an extension of Trump’s tax cuts in 2017, but wants to compensate him with billions of additional expenses, that the Republican party has no hope of finding consensus.
Paul generally does not play with his red lines. Except for a little characteristic face on the face, expect you to vote against the bill.
Susan Collins
Senator Susan Collins, R-MAINE, is the only senator of the surviving Republican Party that represents a state that Democrats constantly won at the presidential level. And she faces re -election this year. His career has been revealing, from supporting the initial budget resolution to vote against the revised version. A key reason for your opposition? The concerns that Medicaid cuts would damage the low -income and elderly components.
He also expressed reservations about going after waste and fraud in Medicare, as the leaders of the Republican party have begun to consider. In addition, Collins and others such as Senator John Curtis, a republican of Utah, would firmly oppose the parliamentarian, the internal referee of the Senate who resolves the rules disputes, if he disqualifies some policies.
Collins voted for the fiscal law of the 2017 party, but she has been willing to vote against the main projects of Republican law in the past. Party leaders must take their demands seriously to win their vote.
Lisa Murkowski
When Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska, voted for the budget plan in April that began the process of writing the legislation, quickly followed it with a wide set of complaints that must be addressed, or will be “unable to support” the final product. Among other things, she disagreed with Medicaid cuts and an accounting trick that her party is using to darken the cost of tax cuts.
Two months later, his concerns persist. Asked Thursday by NBC News what you want to change on the emerging bill, Murkowski replied dryly: “Oh, I will give you a list.”
Murkowski has criticized the elimination and repeal of clean energy tax credits that benefit their state, writing a letter in April with three of its colleagues, the sens. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, Thom Tillis, RN.C. and Curtis, highlighting the importance of the energy independence of the United States, which they argued could be weakened as a result of this bill.
Murkowski has shown an independent streak and a will to take political arrows to stand firm.
Mike Crapo
Senator Mike Crapo, a Idaho Republican, is the president of the Senate Finance Committee and will help elaborate some of the largest and controversial pieces of the bill, including tax cuts and medicaid cuts. Despite its soft and non -confrontational style, Crapo will not be able to make everyone happy.
And any change that made in the Senate would have to be tasty for the republican majority of the House of Representatives, which was dedicated to thorough negotiations before approved its version of the bill by a margin of a vote.
An example of disconnection is the expanded limit of $ 40,000 in state and local fiscal deductions, to placate a group of Republicans from the Blue State Representatives Chamber. But there are no Republican senators who represent the blue states where it is a big problem. Crapo said that “there is no strong mood in the Senate Republican Caucus at this time” to expand salt.
The bill represents its greatest evidence since it took the powerful deck.
Thom Tillis
Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., said he wants to adjust the accessories of clean energy tax credits with a more “directed” approach to protect US companies who are already invested in existing projects. He said there is “general consensus that the proposed language of the house will be modified.” The President of the Environment Senate and the Public Works, Shelley Moore Capito, RW.VA., agreed, telling NBC News that some graduates will probably be delayed.
Member of the Finance Committee, Tillis has generally sounded positive on the direction of the bill, which makes it a probable “yes” vote. But it is skeptical that the Senate will meet the deadline of Independence Day: “There are many things that have to go perfectly to do everything that is done and leave before July 4.”
Tillis faces a hard act of political balance: he is ready for re -election next year in a state that the Democrats will point; But first you need to cross a Republican primary, which means staying on Trump’s good side.
Ron Johnson
Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, has criticized the bill and his estimated contribution of $ 2.4 billion to the deficit, insisting that he cannot vote for him as written. He has criticized the idea of a mega-facture, asking to break it and limit the debt roof walk.
Trump asked him to be “less negative” during a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Johnson said.
“I think we had a good and lively discussion between the two,” Johnson told NBC News. “Obviously I would like it to be a little less negative, a little more positive, what I am happy to do.”
Johnson said he is not trying to hinder Trump’s work and republican leaders. And Senator Zig-Zagse his path to “yes” on the fiscal law of 2017 after initially leaving against it, so the party leaders have reasons to be optimistic that this legislation will not sink.
Josh Hawley
Senator Josh Hawley, R-MO., Has been the most vowel opponent of the Senate Republican Party to reduce the “benefits” of Medicaid, and has been specific to which parts of the bill of the House of Representatives for which he worries him, citing the Medicaid provider tax and the shared cost provisions.
In particular, Hawley said it is fine with coverage losses resulting from the medical work requirements and the expanded eligibility test provisions. Those invent most of the savings of the camera bill.
Hawley has also expressed reservations on including any provision in the bill related to Medicare, that the Republicans recently said that they would discuss related to savings related to the so -called “waste, fraud and abuse.” Hawley called him “a terrible idea”, telling journalists on Thursday: “If you never want to win an election, just go play with the people for whom they have worked hard, paid.”
