The Republican majority of the United States Senate has approved with the vote against two senators of the Republican Party a fundamental package of measures to continue the path to the approval of the bill ‘one, large, beautiful’ promoted by the American president, Donald Trump, with which he seeks to reduce taxes and increase military spending, in addition to including cuts in Medicaid-a insurance program for people with limited resources Tax for clean energy.
“Tonight we witness a great victory in the Senate with the ‘Great, big and beautiful bill’ (…), I hope vote
The tight vote has been 51 votes in favor of 49 against, with the Republican Senator for North Carolina, Thom Tillis, and the Republican representative for Kentucky, Rand Paul, joining the Democrats. In this vote, the beginning of the debate on the bill, something Trump wants urgently to approve it on July 4 coinciding with the country’s independence day.
“Numerous people have presented themselves to compete in the primaries against Senator Thom Tillis. I will meet them in The next weeks to find someone who adequately represents the people of North Carolina“The American leader said.
He has also referred to an ironic message against Rand Paul in reference to other occasions in which the senator has voted against most of his party. “Did Rand Paul vote again ‘No’ tonight? What happens to this guy?” He said.
In the House of Representatives the Law proposal already had to face another adjusted approval by a single vote –215 supports against 214 votes against.
The Senate day has been marked by uncertainty after several senators of the president’s political party showed his doubts about the legislative project and put the vote in danger, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
The internal division of the Republican Party is due to certain disagreement with the cuts in Medicaid or in food aid, as well as the reduction of credits to the clean energy industry, such as electric cars, which senators of certain states where they predominate do not see with good eyes.
In this sense, to convince moderate Republicans, the new version includes measures such as a fund of 25,000 million dollars (21,328 million euros) to mitigate cuts in the health system or a postponement of the obligation to impose a state tax of 3.5 percent on Medicaid suppliers.
“Very proud of the Republican Party tonight. God bless you all!”
On the other hand, Trump has accused the Democrats of wanting to raise taxes by 68 percent, reduce border expenditure to zero or leave the armed forces with “Insufficient funds“, after his refusal to support his proposal.
“Republicans must remember that they fight a group of very evil peoplecorrupt and, in many ways, incompetent (politically!), That I would prefer to see our country ‘sink into flames’ before doing the right thing, “said the president in Truth social in reference to the vote.
Criticism of the bill
Criticisms of this new fiscal legislation also arrive by Elon Musk, the one who was a member of the US administration until last May 28 and that after his departure from the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) has maintained a great belligerence against the tenant of the White House.
“The last bill of the Senate will destroy millions of jobs in the United States and cause immense strategic damage to our country! Totally crazy and destructive. It grants aid to the industries of the past while seriously harming those of the future,” said the South African tycoon in a message from its X account.
In this same direction, the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, who has encrypted in 840,000 the jobs that would be lost in case of applying this measure.
