The United States Senate prolonged the debate of the controversial budget of the president, called El, with the expectation of voting on Monday, as earlier, the plan, which would cost more than 3 billion dollars to the public debt.
The Republicans expressed to the media that at 9:00 local time on Monday (six more hours in Madrid) would begin the vote-a-ramaprocess in which legislators present amendments to the initiative, which contains key elements of the Trump agenda, such as tax cuts and public spending, and higher funds for defense and immigration control.
It is still uncertain that all the 53 senators of the Trump party support the project, as it would add 3.3 billion dollars to the public debt within 10 years, now estimated the Congress Budget Office (CBO), a calculation greater than 2.4 billion dollars of the version that approved on May 22 the lower house.
Other legislators question the cuts to social programs such as Medicaid or food coupons because the CBO provides that 12 million people lose their medical insurance by 2034 with the initiative, which would cut 1.1 billion dollars in public health policies.
These are the keys to a text that brings an entire country to the head, the one that the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, liked.
The plan
The idea of Donald Trump is that this initiative extends the budget cuts to the companies that promoted in their first mandate and include new new ones; Implement requirements to access social programs and student credits; Remove incentives to investments that promote the fight against climate change and allocate multimillionaires funds to border security.
An ambitious agenda that, according to the non -partisan budget office of Congress, would increase the country’s debt by 2.4 billion dollars in the next decade, a debt that already exceeds 36 billion dollars.
According to Claudio Loser, former director of the International Monetary Fund for the Western Hemisphere, the worst consequence of the “great and beautiful” bill is precisely the deepening of this debt, because “despite the fact that the United States can afford to have a larger deficit than other countries, because it has the dollar, what (this law) is to weaken the dollar, which can even impact the world economy”.
The strong point
The strong point of the bill is that it extends the fiscal sales that Trump promoted in his first mandate. In December 2017, the US President promulgated the Law of Tax and Jobs Cuts, the largest tax reform in the United States since the Reagan era.
The legislation drastically reduced the tax rate to companies from 35% to 21% and modified the individual tax system, reducing rates.
Now, the current bill includes a specific fiscal exemption for older adults beneficiaries of Social Security, that is, retirees. Specifically, it establishes a deduction of $ 4,000 for people over 65 in order to reduce the percentage deduced by taxes.
In addition, the state and local tax deduction limit (PALT, for its English figures) for average income households, including measures such as a 3.5 percent tax on remittances and greater scrutiny of non -profit organizations.
Kevin Chavous, a member of the National Democratic Committee, that “this project increases opportunities for 5% of the most privileged Americans by lowering the taxes they owe, while reducing income for the poorest Americans by dramatically cutting food and medical subsidies.”
Additionally, the “great and beautiful bill” meets one of the main promises of the 2024 campaign: the elimination of taxes to tips and extra hours.
It also proposes to grant $ 1,000 for babies that are born between 2025 and 2029. That was a measure that Trump denigrated when it was a democratic proposal, but now hugs.
Budgets
In the United States, so far, the budget process in Congress was divided into 12 subcommittees that drafted a bill for each sector. These procedures gave space to negotiations between legislators, but also to the eternal dispute between Republicans and Democrats, which frequently left the country to the edge of the ‘Shutdown’ in the absence of consensus on financing before the fiscal year starts.
Government’s paralysis implies that federal agencies stop operating and their constant shadow has damaged the reputation of congressmen, who use these pacts to advance their own agendas. According to Gallup, in May 2025, only 26% of citizens approved the management of the Congress.
A BUNIBUS law is a legislative instrument that allows us to include several reforms in different aspects of the government in a single text to facilitate and expedite its process, ignoring the individual discussions of each of the initiatives it contains and the “great and beautiful” Trump bill is one in its purest form.
As explained to France 24 Heidi Smith, a doctor in public affairs from the International University of Florida, “what the Republicans have done is to simplify that subcomités structure towards a complete budget with income and expenses. At this time the president is republican, Congress is republican and most states are governed by Republicans, then we have a triafect for the possibility of reforming.”
Brake to the Judiciary
The Federal Rule of American Civil Procedure establishes that judges must ask the party to file a lawsuit that deposits money as a guarantee to cover costs if the court order is unjustified. Federal judges often renounce this requirement, especially in demands to the government for unconstitutional actions.
The “Great and Beautiful” bill includes section 70302, a little known clause stipulating that if a judge issues an order – even if it is temporary – without demanding the plaintiff to deposit this security bond, the Court cannot use federal funds to declare in contempt of those who disobey it.
Demanding a payment in advance in those cases would make it difficult for common people or civil rights groups to block executive actions of the White House.
“It is a hidden section within the budget and it is basically a measure to annul The power to court to enforce his orders, ”explains the constitutional lawyer Rafael Peñalver to France 24.
As a history, Judge James Boasberg considered in April that the Trump government could incur contempt by having “deliberately” ignored his order that prohibited people from being expedited with the use of the Law of Foreign Enemies.
International consequences
Article 899 establishes a “revenge tax” of up to 20% to the companies of countries that impose taxes that the administration considers “discriminatory” towards US companies.
“They are going to put a tax on the profits that the other countries that invest (in the United States) have, they will charge them a tax on profits or bonds, which in the last instance would be terrible for international companies, which will stop investing in the United States. This is the opposite of attracting investment,” says Claudio Loser, former director of the International Monetary Fund for the Western Hemisphere.
And that is where the core of the changes that President Trump wishes to implement the Government’s main source of income – the taxes – without cutting too much social programs to balance.
And at the same time, the president is trying to consolidate a system in which the country’s financing comes from other countries. The doctor Public Affairs of the International University of Florida, Heidi Smith, adds to the conversation that “the idea is to balance the budget with external income. But (this) is happening at the same time that negotiations with different countries take place. Then, they want to do it immediate and do not leave enough time to understand the budget logic.”
To fulfill the President of the President, from a United States financed by the other countries, the image of a reliable partner should be projected. However, this image has deteriorated due to the way Trump has broken ranks with the nations that had traditionally been his allies.
Defense and Inmigración
The initiative also proposes to expand the defense budget at 150 billion dollars with the focus on fulfilling the campaign promise to carry out the greatest mass deportation in history, which so far remains elusive, and “shield” borders.
This money would be divided into several fronts, ranging from the modernization of military facilities and equipment (including the use of new technologies, with more than 4.5 billion dollars for the implementation of artificial intelligence for surveillance tasks); The continuation of the construction of the border wall (with 46.5 billion dollars for this purpose) and more than 4,000 million dollars for the hiring of more than 10,000 agents of the customs immigration and control service, (ICE) and 3,000 of the border patrol.
Likewise, it includes around 24,000 million dollars for the construction of the golden dome – a satellite system with antimile technology inspired by the iron dome of Israel – for which President Trump already announced that he would need the support of Canada because he would have to cover 400 times more territory. The president promised that he would be built in three years, before he finishes his mandate.
The United States is already the country that invests the most in defense in the world, with 997,000 million dollars invested in 2024, according to the International Institute for Peace Research in Stockholm. With this new budget, it would continue to be well above China, which invested 314,000 million dollars in the same year.
