The broad fiscal bill of US President Donald Trump did not exceed a key procedural obstacle this Friday, since the hard -line Republicans, who demanded greater cuts for spending, blocked the measure, in an unusual political setback for the Republican President in Congress.
The most conservative members of the Republican Party in the lower house joined the Democrats, so they managed to stop Trump’s fiscal and expenses plan that included gravamen to remittances.
With 16 votes in favor but 21 against, legislators built the bill that included various tax measures such as 5 percent tax on remittances abroad.
The vote in the budget committee of the House of Representatives occurred despite Trump’s call to Republicans to join the legislation. “We do not need ‘bluffs’ in the Republican party. Stop speaking and do it!” He said in a publication on social networks.
Five of the 21 Republicans of the Panel voted in favor of blocking the measure, stating that they would continue to refuse their support unless the Chamber of the Chamber, Mike Johnson, would accept new cuts to the Medical Medical Attention Program for low -income Americans and the total repeal of the green energy cuts implemented by the Democrats.
As written, the bill would add billions of dollars to the debt of 36.2 billion dollars of the federal government during the next decade.
“This is not a farce,” said representative Ralph Norman, one of the hard line conservatives who has publicly expressed his opposition to the bill in recent days.
“We will reach agreements, but we will not give in spending,” said the Republican of South Carolina to the press.
The vote probably represents a temporary setback for the measure in a congress controlled by Trump’s Republicans, which so far did not reject any of their legislative requests. However, it could delay the plans for a vote in the camera’s plenary next week.
Republicans are divided between the hard line, which consider the package as their best opportunity to cut the expense, and the most moderate Republicans of competitive districts, which warned that deeper cuts of the expense in social security programs could endanger the republican majority of 220-213 seats in the House of Representatives in the intermediate elections of 2026.
The president of the Chamber Budget Committee, Jodey Arrington, highlighted the importance of legislation for voters who chose Trump for the White House and granted the party the total control of the congress last November.
“They want sensible policies. And they want all of us a commitment to put the United States and the Americans first. They show people what they voted,” said Texan Republican.
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Democrats condemn legislation for considering it a vehicle for tax cuts to billionaires
Republican representatives Norman, Chip Roy, Andrew Clyde, Josh Brecheen and Lloyd Smucker joined the 16 Democrats of the Committee to vote against the measure.
“We are signing checks that we cannot charge and our children will pay the consequences. Therefore, vote against this bill unless serious reforms are implemented,” said Roy, from Texas, to the committee.
The legislators said they hoped to reach an agreement with Johnson to amend the bill during the weekend.
Roy, Norman, Clyde and Brecheen are members of the Ultraconservator Caucus for the freedom of the House of Representatives, which he subsequently published on social networks: “We will not go anywhere and continue working during the weekend.” Smucker said that his vote against, modified from an initial “yes”, was a parliamentary maneuver to ensure that the measure could be resumed once Johnson has negotiated an agreement. Smucker maintained the hope of a new vote on Monday.
The legislation would extend the tax cuts approved during Trump’s first mandate. The Joint Tax Committee of the Congress, of a bipartisan nature, estimates that the cuts would cost 3.72 billion dollars in a decade. Trump has highlighted measures such as the elimination of taxes on tips and overtime, which according to Republicans would benefit the US working class, while critics claim that the bill will offer more benefits to the rich.
The Democrats condemned the legislation for considering it a vehicle to grant tax cuts to billionaires, citing a projection of independent researchers from the congress that proposed that the expenses of expenses to Medicaid and private medical insurance subsidized by the federal government, available through the Law on Low Price Health Care, could cause 8.6 million Americans to lose their medical coverage.
“No other bill, no law or any other previous event caused so many millions of Americans to lose their medical attention. Not even the great depression,” said representative Brendan Boyle, the main democrat of the committee.
Republicans are divided into three factions: the moderate of the states led by the Democrats, who want to increase the federal deduction of state and local taxes; The uncompromising, who demand that a higher Salt deduction compensates with deeper cuts to Medicaid and the total repeal of tax credits for renewable energy; and others moderate, determined to minimize the cuts to Medicaid.
The proposed legislation would impose work requirements for Medicaid from 2029. Intransigentes want these to become immediately entering and have requested a drastic reduction of federal contributions to the medical benefits available for the working class through the affordable health care law (ACA), an option to which the moderate republicans oppose vehemently.
With Reuters information
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