Ben Whedon
When the “large, beautiful account” of President Donald Trump is heading towards the final vote in the Chamber, conservative budget hawks are furious that he largely does not offer cuts of expenses for their satisfaction, marking the latest Punty Punty Long GOP line, which has repeatedly swore to take care of domestic debt.
Republicans have long been conducting a campaign on the debt solution, and the Tea Party movement recorded historical election victories under President Barack Obama. In 2010, Republicans won Home control and reduced the democratic majority in the Senate. However, even when Trump took office for the first time, Congress did not accept a sustainable budget.
For President Joe Biden, conservatives from the house aggressively pushed the then Kevin McCarthy speaker to agree to budget concessions when questioning his leadership. His attempts did not satisfy the debts, and McCarthy lost his position in October 2023. His deputy, speaker Mike Johnson, R-la. Frustrated fiscal conservativesMaybe even more than his predecessor.
Mega-white
Johnson has repeatedly undertook further resolutions to maintain expenses at the Biden level, despite the fact that he promised to separate all 12 fund accounts to finance the government in a classic process. His term saw fire brands such as representatives. Marjorie Taylor GreeneR-Ga.; Thomas MassieR-Ky.; And the Roy chip, R-Texas, everyone publicly lamenting for the reluctance of Congress to deal with expenses and other campaign promises. All three voted “present” during the tardy Sunday session, enabling the bill, and Roy revealed progress in raising the date of starting fresh requirements for work in Medicaid and the acceleration of phase incentive to encouragement to green energy.
The current home plan to transfer Mega-Bill in order to solve all key priorities of Trump is still to take fire from the same budget hawks. Several of them delayed the progress of the Act through key committees, Voting on the floor He’s off now. “Reduced credit rating in the US is proof that our fiscal house is disabled,” Rep. Ralph NormanRs.c., he said on Monday.
The Trump administration assigned most of its legislative hopes regarding the adoption of one legislation through the Chamber and the Senate and the exploit of the process of budget reconciliation to take into account many of his promises of tax and border security. Trump has repeatedly pointed to the transfer of a balanced budget during the second term, although Mega-Bill does not seem to be close to achieving this goal.
Mega-Bill, named One great handsome billat least calls for cutting USD 1.5 trillion Spending over ten years, significantly compared to the original goal of $ 2 trillion in one year necessary to balance the budget. The Department of Government Trump (Doge) promised to find a cut of $ 2 trillion, but eventually found ordinary $ 170 billion. In the 2014 budget year, the federal government issued 6.75 trillion dollarscompared to $ 4.92 trillion He collected revenues, which leads to a deficit of $ 1.83 trillion.
For his part, Trump has long insisted that his tariffs eventually Provide revenues Necessary to take into account the deficiency and potentially enabling the elimination of income tax, but so far revenues are not near the levels necessary for such a plan.
Approval by the section, but some of the screams
Mega-Bill basically took the place of 12 separate bills for funds, and the committees responsible for developing classic regulations instead meant their sections and promotion to the floor as part of the same bill.
While some panels approved their parts of the regulations with a minimal incident, others witnessed the hustle and bustle during the markers process or even needed more than one vote to move forward. Ways and funds committee on Wednesday The tax part has passed In voting on the party 26-19.
The Energy and Trade Committee recognized the tags for part of the account last week at a stormy meeting, in which the Democrats rapidly insisted that the planned work requirements for Medicaid recipients would have Start only from the program. Republicans denied these allegations and pointed to the text of the legislation. Medicaid provisions were not intended to enter immediately.
During the meeting of House Democrats, especially Rep. Nanette Barragán, D-colif., They showed the graphics of the disabled, which they claimed emphasizing the rates Medicaid Reliance in republican districts of the committee members. Disabled people also The interrogation protested.
Litany of hard to organize promises
Trump has made a wide range of promises of campaigns related to taxes before a refund to the office, including the termination of social insurance taxes and advice.
He also swore Tax reduction in 2017. Analysts say that such promises necessarily limit federal income and would contribute to existing deficits, causing that the chamber legislators are associated because they try to set themselves as supporters of fiscal responsibility. Trying to balance the budget, lower revenues logically lead to deeper cuts of expenses and potentially more political clearance.
While the house has he tried To follow many of these promises, the reality of the federal financial situation forced legislators to accept a more restricted approach Preservation of overtime tips and intersections in 2028
One of the main problems for republicans are state and local tax deductions (salt), which Act on tax reductions in 2017 restricted. Moderate Republicans, especially those in a delegation in New York, tried to finish or raise a hat in another way, which has long been a sore place for voters in tax states on tax tax.
Trump himself He promised to eliminate the salt hat Completely during the campaign, saying that “works and factories pour back to New York” if the house does it. His own tax act of 2017 restricted salt deduction of USD 10,000.
At the beginning of this month a proposed $ 30,000 CAP SALT GOP legislators in Empire State, including representatives of Mike Lawler, Elise Stefanik, Nick Lalota and Andrew Garbarino, on the figurine, calling it “offensive”.
The issue of salt turned out to be a key division during the evening vote last Thursday of the Budget Committee of the House, in which five conservative hardliners Vote with the democrats To prevent his progress. But Budget committee He turned on Sunday evening and approved the invoice after Johnson met with some detention and confessed to “minor modifications”.
Reaching “yes”
Chip Roy, one of the members of the budget committee, which opposed this middle of the first voting, voted for the Sunday law, “from the respect of the republican conference and the president forward”. He did not specify what changes caused that he allowed the promotion of the Act, but claimed that the legislation remained unfinished and could be improved.
“But the bill is not yet met – leaving almost half of the green subsidies for new fraud,” he continues “,” Roy published After the house was promoted on Sunday evening.
He continued, “Medicaid and a perverse financing structure, which provides seven times more federal dollars for each dollar, does not end with the end of fraud regarding the laundry of money and a perverse financing structure for each dollar proficient in relation to sensitive. All this ultimately increases the likelihood of a further product product and Non-Obamacare-Expansion.
For his part, Norman was a bit positive that the bill can be improved during the reconciliation process, saying: “[t]Here are some bites in Apple, but more to do. We worked tirelessly to make sure that the first program of President Trump is maximized in this project. “
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Ben Whedon is only a news reporter.
Photo “Tea Party Protest” by Sage ross. CC By-Sa 3.0.
