Washington-The House of Representatives on Thursday morning approved little mass internal policy package, a great victory for President Donald Trump and President Mike Johnson, Republican of the LA-LA., After weeks of heated negotiations within the Republican Party.
The fiscal measure and multimillionaire spending is now addressed to the Senate, where Republicans have promised to change it.
After hours of debate during the night, the vote on the final passage in the camera was 215-214, with two Republicans, the representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio, joining all the Democrats present in the opposition. The representative Andy Harris, R-MD., The leader of the Caucus of Freedom of the House of Representatives, voted present.
Nicknamed by Trump as the “Big and beautiful bill”, the legislation extends the tax cuts that expire the president approved in 2017 and contains an infusion of money to expand to the military and carry out the president’s mass deportation plans. It also meets two of Trump’s campaign promises: eliminate taxes on tips and extra time work.
The bill also cuts spending in other areas, including hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid and the supplementary nutritional assistance program (SNAP), while resigning a series of clean energy tax credits approved by Democrats by 2022. And increases the debt roof by $ 4 billion.
“What we are going to do here this morning is truly historical, and it will make a difference in the daily life of Americans who work hard … To put it, this bill makes the Americans win again again, and it has been a long time,” Johnson said in a floor speech before the vote.
But he acknowledged that there are more challenges to come, with the bill that is now addressed to the Senate led by Republicans.
“We are achieving a great thing here today, but we know that this is not the end of the road,” said Johnson.
The Republican leaders of Congress have said they want to send the final bill to Trump’s desk for a firm before July 4.
The vote occurred after the Republicans and the Democrats faced the legislation during an audience of the rules of the Marathon House that began just after 1 in the morning on Wednesday and wrapped 21 hours later, when the panel sent the bill to the floor.
The scanning package included a series of last minute changes to appease the Holdouts factions of the Republican party whose votes are essential in most of the camera. Republicans can only avoid three republican defections in any vote against unified democratic opposition.
Conservative hard lines ensured changes in the way of accelerating Medicaid’s work requirements to begin at the end of 2026, and eliminating faster clean energy credits.
A group of blue state Republicans obtained a larger state and local deduction limit of $ 40,000 to take home to their high tax districts.
The measure was projected on Tuesday by the non -partisan Congress Budget office to increase national debt by $ 2.3 billion. The Budget Office said it would terminate medical care coverage for 8.6 million people.
In general, the package will decrease domestic resources between the lowest decil of income income by 4%, while increasing household resources between the highest income income by 2% by 2023.
It is not clear what impact the late changes in the final estimate will have.
Trump helped Johnson’s leaders and the Republican party to close the agreement, joining a meeting of the Chamber Republican Conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. The president told Holdouts in the Chamber that it was now time to eliminate his demands and unify behind his “great and beautiful bill.”
When Harris and other conservatives fell more on Wednesday, Trump called the group’s leaders and republican leaders to the White House so that they are on board.
Both Johnson and the leader of the majority, Steve Scalise, Republican of the la-la., Returned from the meeting promising the position ahead with a vote, even without public guarantees of the Caucus de la Libertad. The leaders were desperate to move quickly because they feared there could be republican absences later in the week.
The Democrats repeatedly criticized the Republicans for discussing and approveing the bill “under the cover of darkness”, and warned that deep expenses of expenses would start millions of Americans from Medicaid’s rolls.
“This is what it will mean for the American people,” said the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, DN-Y., Said in a speech before the vote. “Children will hurt. Women will hurt. The older Americans who trust in Medicaid for the care of elderly households and for home care will be hurt. People with disabilities who depend on Medicaid to survive, will be hurt. The hospitals in their districts will close. The homes of the elderly will be closed.
