United States President Donald Trump’s comprehensive tax project was unable to exceed an important procedural obstacle on Friday, with a hard-line republicans that require deeper spending cuts in spending on a rare political setback in Congress to the Republican President.
The vote on the House Budget Committee occurred despite Trump’s appeal for Republicans to “come together for the sake” of the legislation.
“We don’t need ‘displayed’ in the Republican Party. Stop talking and conclude that!” He said in a social media publication.
Five of the House’s Budget Committee’s 21 Republicans voted against the proposal, warning that they should continue to deny support less than the mayor, Mike Johnson, agrees with more cuts in the medical health program for low-income Americans and the full revocation of green energy cuts implemented by Democrats.
The way it was written, the bill would add trillions of dollars to the $ 36.2 trillion debt of the federal government in the next decade.
Project voting should set a temporary setback to the measure in a Congress controlled by Trump’s Republicans who have not rejected any of their legislative proposals so far and may delay voting plans in the House Plenary next week.
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Republicans are divided between the hard line, which sees the package as their best chance of cutting spending, and the most moderate republicans of competitive districts, who warned that deeper spending cuts on social security programs can endanger the 220 to 213 chairs in the 2026 term elections.
House Budget Committee President Jodey Arrington emphasized the importance of legislation for voters who chose Trump to the White House and gave the party the full control of Congress last November.
“They want common sense policies. And they want all of us a commitment to put the United States and Americans first. Let’s give people what they vote for,” Texas Republican said.
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Cheques
Republican deputies Norman, Chip Roy, Andrew Clyde, Josh Brecheen and Lloyd Smucker joined the committee’s democrats to vote against the measure.
“We are filling in checks that we cannot afford and our children will pay the price. Therefore, I am against this bill unless serious reforms are made,” Roy told Texas to the committee.
Parliamentarians hope to reach a deal with Johnson to change the bill during the weekend.
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Roy, Norman, Clyde, and Brecheen are members of the Ultra -conservative House Freedom Caucus, who later said in a social media post: “We don’t go anywhere and we will continue to work during the weekend.”
Smucker said his vote “no”, changed from an initial “yes”, was a parliamentary maneuver designed to ensure that the measure can be resumed as soon as Johnson achieves an agreement. Smucker kept the hope of a new vote on Monday.
If approved, the measure should extend the cuts of taxes approved during Trump’s first term. The Bipartisan Tax Committee of Congress estimates that tax cuts would cost US $ 3.72 trillion over a decade.
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Trump drew attention to measures that include tips and overtime taxes that, according to Republicans, would be stimulated for the working class, while critics claim that the bill will offer more benefits to the rich.
In condemning the legislation, Democrats evaluated the bill as a vehicle to grant tax reductions to billionaires, while citing a projection of Congress-independent researchers, warning that the proposed cuts for Medicaid and the federal government’s private health insurance, available through the Obamacare, could lead 8.6 million Americans to lose health coverage.
“No other previous bill, no other previous event has made so many millions of Americans lose their health plan. Not even the great depression,” said Deputy Brendan Boyle, the committee’s main democrat.
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Republicans are divided between three strands: the moderates of states led by democrats who want to increase federal deduction to state and local taxes; The hard line that requires a higher deduction to be compensated for deeper cuts in Medicaid and the total revocation of green energy credits; and other moderates determined to minimize cuts in medicaid.
The proposal imposes work requirements on Medicaid from 2029. The row wants these requirements to start immediately and requested a drastic reduction in federal contributions to the benefits of medicaid available to people of the working class through Obamacare, an option vehemently rejected by moderate republicans.
