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In today’s edition, Adam Edelman analyzes the blue states that seek rapid actions to adjust their budgets after the approval of the great internal policy legislation of President Donald Trump. In addition, Kristen Welker analyzes the key conclusions of his interview with Trump.
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Blue status leaders weigh new laws to deal with the financial consequences of the great Trump bill
By Adam Edelman
State legislators are struggling to deal with the expected financial consequences of the law of a large bill of President Donald Trump, and many in the blue states require special legislative sessions that, they say, are necessary to underpin financing for medical care programs and food assistance affected by the new law.
Democratic governors in at least five states are weighing such special sessions, and Democratic legislators in several others are urging their governors to call them to address the expected financing deficit.
In Colorado, the Office of Planning and Budget of the State of the Democratic Governor Jared Polis has projected that the State would receive around $ 500 million less in income annually, and could see the same amount in additional costs, due to the impact of the new law on Medicaid and food assistance.
Democratic state senator Iman Jodeh said that a special session is “absolutely necessary” to deal with the new financial panorama of the State, predicting that it was “imminent” that Polis summons one.
“We have to do it,” said Jodeh, a member of the Senate Human and Health Committee. “Our budget simply cannot absorb filling, deficit, cuts.”
Polis spokesman, Shelby Wieman, said in the email that Polis “has previously indicated that we might need to reconvene the general assembly to deal with the terrible impacts of the bill, and we are still reviewing the impacts of this new law to evaluate the next steps, including a possible special session.”
Jodeh said that due to the only declaration of rights of Colorado taxpayers, a 1992 measure that effectively limits how much taxes can increase the State, will be extremely difficult for Democrats, despite their control of the Government and both legislative chambers, to mainly avoid the social programs cut and frozen to address the expected steps.
“We are all incredibly scared of how we can navigate this,” he said. “What are those programs that we will have to freeze or roughing or eliminating completely? Those will be the questions that we will have to answer during the special session.”
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And to take my interview with Trump
Kristen Welker analysis
Yesterday I spoke with President Donald Trump in a wide 20 -minute phone call, where we discussed his tariff approach, his response to the devastating floods in Texas, his views on the current war between Russia and Ukraine, and more.
A key conclusion of our conversation is that the president pointed out that he is looking for politics to politics now that his broad proposal for taxes and expenses, which he called the only draft large law, has become law.
I asked Trump if he plans to go to the road to talk about the measure and said “a little,” then added: “But, honestly, it has been received so well that I do not think I have to do it, but a little. And certainly before half of the exams halfway to half of half of half of the middle.”
That approach in the mid -period elections next year underlines the hard fight ahead for the Republican Party, since he tries to hold on to his narrow majorities in both cameras. Democrats need to obtain only three seats to turn the camera and four seats to take control of the Senate, a more difficult task given the general inclination of the states that celebrate Senate races next year. And the Democrats plan to campaign in the wide measure of taxes and expenses, emphasizing the cuts to Medicaid.
But the president did not seem too worried that his party lost seats in Congress.
“They also said that around 2024. They said: ‘We are going to win seats,” Trump said about the Democrats. “They did not.
Meanwhile, the president is walking along a very fine line with his magic supporters, to whom the Republicans need to go out in mass to hold on to the control of the congress next year.
These voters have more isolationist opinions about foreign policy, creating some tension when it comes to assistance to Ukraine. Trump made some news on that forehead yesterday, when he emphasized that NATO, not the United States, would cover the cost of additional weapons for Ukraine.
“We are sending weapons to NATO, and NATO is paying for those weapons, 100%,” Trump told me. “Then, what we are doing is that the weapons that are going out go to NATO, and then NATO will give those weapons and NATO is paying for those weapons.”
“We are not paying for more weapons,” added the president later.
The details of that agreement with NATO are not yet clear, although the president caused an “important statement” about Russia that will arrive on Monday.
NATO spokeswoman, Allison Hart, responded to Trump’s comments in a statement on Friday. “The allies continue to work to ensure that Ukraine has the support they need to defend against Russia’s aggression. This includes urgent efforts to obtain key supplies from the United States, including air defense and ammunition,” he said.
We deepen all this the “Meet The Press” on Sunday, where I will talk to the National Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem, Republican Senator John Barraso de Wyoming and Democratic Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky.
🗞️ The other main stories today
- ➡️ Trump in Texas: Donald and Melania Trump traveled to Texas to meet with the lifeguards and the afflicted families after the catastrophic floods last week that left more than 100 dead people. Read more →
- ✂️ Incentive layoffs: The United States diplomats are preparing to cut the workforce of the State Department, and the dismissal notices are expected to reach the entrance trays as soon as Friday, according to three officials of the State Department with knowledge of the plans. Read more →
- ⛪ Holy Repriment: The Archdiocese of Miami is condemning a controversial migrant detention center in Florida, which state officials have appointed “Cocodile Alcatraz”, calling it “improper of public officials” and “corrosive of the common good.” Read more →
- 💰 Surplus surplus: The United States government published a surplus in June, since the tariff receipts gave an additional increase with a strong increase in receipts, said the Treasury Department. Read more →
✉️ Mailbag: When do the provisions of Trump’s new law enter into force?
Thanks to all those who sent us an email! This week’s reader’s question, by Cindy Scruggs, is how Trump’s great internal policy law will be implemented.
“Knowing that many of the cuts will be in force after the 2026 elections, what parts of the bill or the associated consequences (if there are) will occur before the intermediate exams?”
One of our experts in Congress, the national political reporter Senior Sahil Kapur, provided an answer:
This is an important and somewhat complicated question.
The short response is that the Republicans loaded the most significant cuts under Medicaid, Snap and the Law of Low Price Health Care until after the 2026 elections.
That was a deliberate effort to handle political pain: right -wing Republicans wanted Medicaid’s work requirements to immediately take effect, but the party reached an agreement to trigger them on the last day of 2026, only weeks after half of the afternoon.
Some legislators of the Republican party have told us that they believe (or expect) that this will isolate them in the 2026 elections.
Beyond that, many of the cuts of the law gradually in the next decade. As Kff’s health policy expert, Larry Levitt, told me, “there will not be a day in which we wake up and suddenly there are millions of people without medical insurance.”
That said, some effects will still feel in advance. There are already reports of at least one hospital in Nebraska closing, citing the “federal budget cuts to Medicaid”, a great source of funds for hospitals.
Sometimes, the anticipation of an unpopular law in force can make an effective policy: Republicans caused the Democrats to pay a high political price in the partial examinations of 2010 for the Law of Health Care at a low price of the then insúdica, although it had not yet been activated. In 2018, the vast voters of voters barely felt the benefits of the Law of Tax and Jobs Cuts, which Trump sold as the greatest tax cut in history, and the Democrats of the House of Representatives won 40 seats in the mid -period elections of that year.
Finally, the presidential elections of 2028 will feel the impacts of Trump’s “great bill”, and if this law comes into force as designed, the Democrats will surely do a problem.
That’s all of the politics desk for now. Today’s newsletter was compiled by Scott Bland and Dylan EBS.
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