The leader of the majority of Senate John Thune, Rs.d., Center, accompanied by Senator John Barrassa, R-Wyd., On the left, and senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rw.va., Right, speaks to reporters after the weekly republican lunch in the American Capitol in the US Capitol 19 February 2025.
Washington – Republican leaders of the US Senate expressed trust on Tuesday that they would be able to force opposition to the various elements of the “large, beautiful bill” of the party to approve this measure before the fourth July, although they decided that there was a lot of work left.
GOP senators from the entire political spectrum debated the broad impact of tax and expenses for weeks, but raised new fears after the financial committee issued part of the package that concerns taxes and Medicaid. Some Senators GOP opposed changes in Medicaid policy, which, they claimed, could harm rural hospitals.
The leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune, rs.d., said during a press conference, which reduced Tax on the Medicaid supplier The speed that countries can download from 6% to 3.5% to 2031 were “important reforms”.
“We believe that they restore the balance of the program in a way that provides adequate incentives to cover people who should be covered by Medicaid,” said Thune. “But we still hear from our members specifically about components or bills that they would like to see modified or changed or have concerned. And we are working on it.”
While the convoluted provision is deep in the weeds of Medicaid policy, several GOP senators expressed concern on Tuesday that the change of the supplier’s tax rate in the states that extended Medicaid insurance under the Act on inexpensive care would be a problem for rural hospitals.
Senator Missouri Josh Hawley said that he was opposed to this provision and wants GOP leaders to reject home language that would freeze the tax rate from the Medicaid supplier at 6%.
“We have to do something,” Hawley said. “If we pass it, there will be many rural hospitals in Missouri. This is a big problem.”
Senator of Western Virginia Jim Justice said he had “all kinds of fears” regarding the provisions in Part of the financial committee “Big, Beautiful Bill”, which the panel published on Monday.
“The home of the supplier’s taxation and everything was said, freezes him,” said Justice. “Now many (from) different vities are happening with this and everything. And there are other things that we just have to – just give us some time. We have to go through it.”
Justice said that he was not planning to be a “stamp” in anything and seemed to discourage GOP leaders before introducing the package to the floor next week before July fourth.
“I would like to do it, just as the president wants to do it until July fourth. I would like us to do it and everything,” said Justice. “But I think that more importantly than anything else, we have to do it well.”
Other Medicaid problems
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski refused to consider changes in the provider’s Medicaid tax rate, because her state does not exploit it like many others.
“I don’t have a dog in this fight because we don’t have taxes from a supplier in Alaska,” said Murkowski. “We are the only state that can play according to the rules.”
But Murkowski told journalists that he had problems with other ways in which the regulations would change Medicaid, State-Federal Health Program for people with lower incomeAnd he expects the bill to be changed before voting on the top floor.
“I don’t think it will remain in this form, we will simply take it this way,” said Murkowski.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said he would vote against the package, if the leaders bring him to the floor next week, as planned, and said that he expected that if the floor was pushed, the whole bill will not pass.
“I hope that not because I guess it will fail and I don’t want it to fail. I want it to succeed,” said Johnson. “Again, the ball has been in the Senate court for two weeks – two weeks. But now we can see the language. Now we are seriously considering some of these ideas, let’s have time to seriously consider it and hope that include them in the invoice.”
House he voted mainly along the party line To approve its version of the package at the end of May, but since then the Republicans of the Senate have been processing the bill.
Among the changes in the Senate Republicans Plan to escalate the country’s debt limit by $ 5 trillion, full 1 trillion more than GOP House legislators proposed in their version.
Possible delay of recesses
Arkansas Senator John Bozman said that if the Senate does not vote for the package approval in the week on June 23, they would probably stay in the city next week to discuss the bill instead of going home for a break in the week of July Fourth.
But he warned that “the longer he spends time, the harder it is.”
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley refused to answer the questions whether he supports or want to change the newly presented Medicaid recipes for his chamber.
“Ask this question in a few days because there is still a discussion,” he said.
Senator James Lankford praised the aspects of the Act, including “long -term tax policy, which is actually constant”, which, as he said, is “important for natural persons and small companies.”
“We do full extraction, doing it permanently – it does not change the dollar when it comes to the income to the treasure, but very significant for our economy,” said Republican Republican from Oklahoma.
Lankford said that he also likes “tax relief in the field of research and development to make sure that we compete with China”, “modernization of the air traffic control system”, as well as “some dollars, which will be very important to me, which were very important to me, for which they ask for a long time and try to get to structural things to the border.”
