The leader of the US Senate minority Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., speaks during a press conference in the capitol building on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. Democratic Senator Ron Promotid with Oregon Ron Promice. (Photo of Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
Washington-Kolejna obstacle for republican leaders in the US Senate and “Big, Beautiful Bill”: Democraci-and perhaps several their own members-during the voting session in the marathon will make the last attempts to change tax and limit expenses.
It is expected that voting-a-ram is expected to start in the last full week of June, when the Congress is heading towards the break in the fourth of July. It will probably start in the afternoon and recently until the next morning. Senators will debate and vote on dozens of amendments trying to revise mass regulations that can affect almost every American.
Democrats, who have 47 votes in the Senate compared to 53 for Republicans, plan to eradicate medicaid, taxes, corruption, policies that could enhance energy costs and proposals that would enhance the deficit, according to the leader of the Senate of the minority Chuck Schumer.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, rs.d. And the chairman of the committee, whose task is to prepare pieces of the package, spent weeks combing the act at home to find out what to change to avoid the division of floor voices.
They prescribed many policy proposals to follow the strict rules that comply complicated reconciliation process And now they are trying to develop disputes among GOP senators who could complicate or complicate the final contract.
The goal is to avoid the prolonged debate on the basic GOP regulations in full public after the start of the voting-a-Ram, although some senators already predict votes regarding GOP amendments.
“Potentially sloppy trial”
Republican senator Missouri Josh Hawley, who raised concerns about the impact of the account on rural hospitalsHe said that he hopes that the GOP leaders would achieve a consensus before voting-a-Ram, but did not rule out the offering of their own amendments, if they did not decide disputes.
“Changing it on the floor is a potentially messy process,” said Hawley. “I hope that we could get to a good place before. But we have to fix the problem with a village hospital.”
Republican senator Alabama Tommy Tuberville said that he would probably propose corrections during the floor debate, although he refused to say what specific policies he would try to change or eliminate from the package.
“Yes, we’ll have a little,” said Tuberville. “We have them all, we just haven’t turned them on yet.”
Thune said that he and other negotiators make “progress” towards the consensus regarding more significant provisions in the package, which in many respects is far from its final form.
“Meetings are now on the main provisions regarding taxes and health. In a sense, we have a lot of lilitigated,” said Thune. “But there are many other regulations in the invoice, chapters in the invoice that still undergo Bath Bath, and we do it. But I hope it will be done at the beginning of next week.”
Republicans operate the process of reconciliation to transfer the package to decide the tax and cutting of expenses via the Senate using the usual majority of votes, requiring them to comply with the Byrd rules.
This includes Byrd Bath – before the Senate MP to explain how each recipe affects federal income or expenses that are not “only accidental”. Democrats usually debate in front of the parliamentarian various changes that do not meet this threshold. This process is called in honor of the behind schedule Senator Robert Byrd, Western Virginia’s democratic.
When the parliamentarist rules what elements compatible and which should be removed, the law can go to the floor, and senators can move through voting. Ultimately, all 100 legislators will vote for approval or rejection of the provisions.
GOP senators passing their version of the package sent her back home, which He passed his version During a tiny vote 215-214 at the beginning of this year-and can introduce even more changes in the Senate Act.
Democrats are developing a strategy
Democrats hope to emphasize political divisions among the Republicans during voting-a-Ram. And even if they fail to accept any of their corrections, several votes can serve as a feed of campaign advertising during next year’s intraceards.
Schumer said on Wednesday during a press conference that the democrats “hard” contact at least four GOP senators from the rest of the party to get a correction, but said that he hopes that the Republicans “vote with us in some things with which everyone said they agreed.”
Democratic senators, said, created a task group to reach Republicans in the main issues in the package, including How will it affect rural hospitals.
“Many of these hospital and employees administrators are a republican,” said Schumer, a New York Democrat. “In many rural hospitals, they are the greatest employer in the county, and in most of them they are the only provider of healthcare. Enraged rural counties and are republican.”
“It’s just a program, it’s a charade”
The republican senator of Western Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito, said that she is not worried that she had to vote for dozens of corrections.
“We’re here to vote,” said Capito. “As the creation of a house, we voted for everything all the time, so it doesn’t bother me. And, you know, let the body act in his will. If changes are introduced, they will have to deal with them. But I’m not worried about it.”
Republican senator Arkansas John Boozman said that he expected that voting-a-Ram will be “very late at night” and that he is not planning to offer any of his own corrections.
As chairman of the Committee for Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Boozman expects to spend a significant amount of time while voting-a-Ram arguing against changes to change these provisions-in this controversial cuts In the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program, which provides food assistance for lower -income families.
Republican senator Wisconsin Ron Johnson said he was planning to spend most of the votes-a-Ram “walking there back from my hideout” Ceremonial office that every senator is holding in the capitol building.
But Johnson in question that he can actually change the package during this process, saying that changes in various bills that Senate committees have issued earlier must be agreed.
“You have to get it before it appears to the floor. I mean that you do not intend to change things significantly or significantly thanks to the corrections. I know that people have some idealized version. This is not happening,” said Johnson. “You have to get these things in the basic account. Changes; it’s just a program, it’s a charade.”
Vote-A-Ram after voting-a-Ram
This year, the Senate organized two voting under and both showed how hard it is to change legislation.
. First versatile In February, it ended in the Senate’s debate on his budget resolution and included voices regarding 25 amendments, with legislators receiving only two – one of the Republican senator Alaska Dan Sullivan and one of the Republican senators from Utah Mike Lee.
. Second voting-Ram It took place in April just before the Senate voted in favor of approval of the budget resolution, which eventually explained to the Congress the operate of the budget reconciliation process to develop a “large, beautiful bill.” Senators debated 28 amendments by voting for taking one change from Sullivan.
Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Przysunny, a ranking member at the financial committee, said that he and the panel employees would continue to analyze the details of the panel act, which the Republicans just published on Monday.
Essentially said that he was planning to organize several matches of the town hall in the areas of GOP in their condition at the weekend to assess how residents perceive the changes of the policy presented by Republican Senators.
“We had this bill for basically 36 hours. I had it for the first time, I stopped all night, so I slept last night,” he said allocated on Wednesday. “But I will work on this on the plane. I expect that I will work for the next few days, except when I have these meetings in the town hall, where I will have many questions.”
