President Donald Trump headed on Tuesday to the Capitol to meet with the Republican congressmen with the aim of reaching an agreement on a broad draft tax cuts law, because the close majority of the party is divided over the scope of the expenses of expenses.
The Hard Line Republicans in the United States House of Representatives briefly blocked on Friday the progress of the bill, which according to non -partisan analysts could add between 3 and 5 billion dollars to the federal government debt of 36.2 billion dollars, but yielded on Sunday.
The bill would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were the most prominent legislative achievement of Trump’s first mandate, and would also add tax exemptions to the income from tips and the payment of overtime that were promises of his electoral campaign.
Trump is expected to try to unite the divided majority of 220-213 of the Chamber, including supporters of the hard line anxious for profound cuts of expenses, the moderate concerned with protecting Medicaid and the republican legislators of the coastal states that try to protect the ability of their voters to deduce state and local taxes.
“The president is going to encourage everyone this morning to put himself in line and get the votes. We have to comply with this for the American people,” said the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, to journalists this Tuesday before Trump’s arrival.
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Some congressmen claim that tax law benefits the rich
Republicans are looking for parliamentary maneuvers to avoid the objections of the Democrats, who say that the bill disproportionately benefits the rich and will deeply cut social programs.
“I think he will urge people to join and I think it will be an optimistic speech (…). I’m glad to come,” said the Republican Hard Line representative Ralph Norman, from South Carolina, one of the few who voted against the project on Friday.
Johnson intends to approve the measure on Thursday, before the festive weekend of the Fallen Day, preparing the land so that the Senate approaches it next month.
With Reuters information
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