The leader of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., returns to the Senate floor after talking to reporters in the US Capitol building on June 30, 2025 in Washington (photo of Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Washington-Republicans of the Senate closed on Monday after the adoption of the “Big Beautiful” version of the tax relief and the reduction of expenses that President Donald Trump wants to create the right of the fourth date of July imposed by him.
But first the Democrats of the Chamber He started the amendment marathonForcing your colleagues from GOP to sign up for difficult problems, including cuts in the health net and food safety programs. From early evening, the Democrats did not win about any votes.
Tactics are used by the opposition party during mass budget reconciliation to pay attention to specific problems, even if their corrections may fail.
Democrats have condemned a lot of funds in Mega-Bill, including recent requirements for working reporting for Medicaid, a health insurance program in a federal state for people with low income and disabled people.
The thunderous opposition also increased when the legislative proposals for the first time transfer the significant costs of the Federal Aid Program in the field of supplementary nutrition or snap.
“I tell our colleagues:” Vote for families over billionaires, “said Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota on the Senate floor.
The heart of almost 1000-page regulations extends and extends the Tax Act in 2017 to maintain individual income tax rates at the same level and makes fixed tax credits regarding business investments as well as research and development costs.
The bill would also introduce the traffic some of the promises of the Trump campaign, including the lack of tax on eligible guidelines, overtime or interest on a car loan, but only for a few years.
It is estimated that tax reductions cost almost USD 4.5 trillion over 10 years, and the account in the account increases the loan limit in the country to $ 5 trillion, because the United States is in the face of a record level of debt.
In general, the Senate Act is to add deficits worth USD 3.25 in the next decade, in accordance with the latest decades calculation from an impartial congress budget office.
Here are some key voices:
Planned parenthood
Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray tried to remove the language from the bill that would block Medicaid payments before going to planned parenting for one year, unless the organization ceases to perform abortions.
Federal law already secures funds for abortions, with restricted exceptions, but GOP legislators have proposed blocking other funds for organization, effectively blocking Medicaid patients from going to planned parenting to other types of healthcare.
Murray said that the proposal would have a harmful impact on health care for women with lower income and called it “long-sought goal of anti-icice extremists.”
“The Republican account cuts off millions of women from birth control, cancer research, necessary preventive healthcare – care that they will not be able to afford anywhere else,” said Murray. “And this closes about 200 healthcare clinics in our country.”
The Republican senator of Mississippi Cindy Hyde-Smith opposed the efforts to remove the change of politics and raise the budget point of order, which was not renounced after voting 49-51. Republican Senator Maine Susan Collins and Alaska Lisa Murkowski voted with the Democrats.
“There was a time when the protection of American tax dollars against the support of the abortion industry was a non-controlled, impartial effort that we all could stop,” Hyde-Smith said.
Medicaid for undocumented immigrants
Senators of both political parties exceeded the transition whether the federal government should reduce how much state is given for its Medicaid program if the state uses their own dollars of taxpayers to save immigrants living in the country without appropriate documentation.
The provision was included in the earlier version of the Act, but the Senate Parliamentarist said that it was not in line with the elaborate rules for the transfer of the Act on budget reconciliation.
. Voting was 56-44But because the resignation from the budget, at least 60 senators had to agree to repeal the rules and move forward with the amendment, so voting failed.
Democratic senses. Catherine Cortez Masto from Nevada, Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire and Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock with Georgia voted with the senators of GOP. Collins Maine voted with the majority of the Democrats of the Chamber against moving forward.
The Senator of Republicans from Texas John Cnun asked for voting, saying that he believes that the change of policy would reduce undocumented immigration.
“The border patrol talks about pushing and pulling factors,” said Cornn. “One of the factors to attract illegal immigration is to know that people will be able to receive various benefits when they reach the country.”
A member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Merkley, D-On., Took over the attempt to recover the language in the act, saying that the change of policy would cause financial damage that extended Medicaid on the basis of healthcare law in 2010 for basic mistakes.
“This amendment says that if one person, despite the state law, through a bureaucratic error, receives funds, then the whole state pays the price and has its own rate from the extended Medicaid, changed from 90% to 80%,” said Merkley, referring to the percentage paid by the Federal Government.
Reduction of funds for the consumer finance protection office
The amendment to stop almost 50% of the reduction of financing for the Consumer Protection Bureau was blocked by the Republican Senator Tim Scott from Southern Carolina, who chaired the Senate Banking Commission, Mieszczady and Urban Matters.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a democrat who supported CFPB after a financial fall in 2008, tried to make an amendment to the floor, saying that the agency “is a financial supervisor to stop people from cheating on credit cards and mortgage loans as well as Venmo and payments of loans and zillion of other transactions.”
“When this financial cop cannot do his work, there is no one in the federal government who could pick up the slack,” said Warren.
Scott blocked it using the budget point of order, saying that the reduction still ensures “high financing” of the agency. The democrats tried to give up the procedural tactics, but it failed after 47-53 Voting.
The original decision on the total zooming of the budget on CFPB has not been included because it did not meet the parameters of the reconciliation process.
Medicaid hospitals and mother’s mortality
Senators voted 48-52 To reject the deelaware proposals of the democratic senator Lisa Blunt Rochester about sending the rules back to the committee to remove the language of limiting certain funds on Medicaid, which, as she said, negatively affect “important hospital services, especially work and delivery rooms.”
“Today Medicaid is the largest payer of obstetrics in the United States, covering 40% of births throughout the country and almost half of births in our rural communities,” said Blunt Rochester. “Obstetrics, especially in rural hospitals, are locking at alarming rates, actually creating maternity deserts.”
No Republicans spoke in opposition to this proposal, although Collins Maine voted for support.
Complementary aid program
The Democratic Senator of New Mexico Ben Ray Luján submitted an application for the act back to the Committee to remove all changes related to the aid program in an additional nutritional or snap. He was rejected after 49-51 VotingAlthough Alaska’s republican sense. Dan Sullivan and Murkowski voted for.
“I offer my colleagues the opportunity to leave these destroyers to show our other Americans that in this country we care about our friends, family and neighbors who need support,” said Luján.
The chairman of the Senate’s agriculture John Boozman, R-Ark, opposed the proposals, saying that Snap is “on an unbalanced path made with improper management and waste.”
“This program has evolved into perception of success as registering more people to depend on government assistance,” said Bozman. “Snap is long late for changes.”
Medicaid work requirements
Senators voted 48-52 To reject the deelaware proposal of the democratic senator Chris Coon, who sent the law back to the committee in order to remove a language that requires a medicid registration to work, participate in social service or participate in the educational program of at least 80 hours a month. Murkowski Alaska was the only member of her party who voted in favor of effort.
Democrats have been concerned for weeks that some people would lose access to Medicaid if they forgot to finish documents proving that the time commitment or does not understand how to show the government that they meet a recent requirement.
“The bouring of patients, children and seniors in the documentation is cruel and dishonest, and then blame them when they lose health care, all to additionally develop our tax code for the richest,” said Coons.
Republican Senator Kansas Roger Marshall called on an objection to the proposal, saying that work helps people.
“My question is: don’t you think that work brings value, that it brings dignity?” Marshall said. “Don’t you think it brings a goal and meaning?”
Rural hospitals and Medicaid
Both Collins and Alaska from Alaska voted for the proposal of Massachusetts democratic senator Ed Markey, who would remove the part of the Medicaid changing in the Act.
But even with some bilateral support, the changes were rejected to 49-51 Voting This would technically send the law back to the committee for three days to make changes.
“The so-called Medicaid Cuts replacement fund of my republican colleagues is like passing aspirin to a patient with cancer,” said Markey. “This is not enough. It is miserable to be inappropriate to deal with the healthcare crisis, which Republicans form here today on the Senate floor. There is no tax break about billionaires or Donald Trump Pat-the-The-the-Back is worth the risk of people’s life.”
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, spoke against this proposal, saying that rural hospitals have long had financial challenges and that it was clearly “intended to deraise this bill.”
“Unfortunately, too long, some rural hospitals fought for financial stability, even with a wide range of targeted payments,” said Crapo. “These preliminary issues are considering reforms, which we currently include in the regulations.”
