The budget framework supported by Trump passes the Senate after the late night voting session
The Senate approved a picture for a radical invoice that promotes President Donald Trump’s agenda after a series of amendment votes during which the Democrats tried to recording the Republicans Problems such as rates and the Department of Efficiency of the Government (Doge).
It has passed mainly along the party lines in a vote from 51 to 48 around 2:30 et on Saturday morning. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine and Rand Paul, R-Ky., It was the only two Republicans who joined the Democrats to oppose the measure.
The modified framework The roof of debt would increase up to $ 5 trillions within the reconciliation process, removing the lever from the Senate’s Democrats. It would also make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanently using what is called a current basic policy that the president of the Lindsey Graham budget committee, RS.C., decides.
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A modified version of the Trump budget passed from home was devoted to the end of a series of votes of marathon in the Senate. (Reuters)
The score tool essentially means that the cost to make Trump tax cuts permanently would be taken into consideration at $ 0 because it extends current policy, rather than counting it as new dollars added to the federal deficit.
Some conservatives have reported that they are wary in the use of that method, however.
Senator Bill Cassidy, R-la., He declared on the Senate in view of the series of votes: “I was assured that there is a commitment and other ways to pay the possible bill of reconciliation”.
“Now, I’m not saying that I think it is better that we use current politics as a base. It has never been done before in an environment like this. I think it establishes a dangerous precedent. It could be in the rules to do it, but it does not mean that it is wise to do it,” he said.
Some conservatives of the house have reached the point of calling it an “expedient”.
The leaders of the Senate Gop clarified that they were in series behind the picture.
“This resolution is the first step towards a final bill to make the tax relief that we implemented in 2017 permanently and to provide an investment of transformation in our border, in national and energy security – all accompanied by substantial saving and reform measures of our government to our government,” said the leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune, RS.D.
The majority of the Senate Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., He said: “The American people gave us a mission and a mandate: safe boundaries, lower taxes, energy at affordable prices, peace through strength and, of course, an efficient and effective government. Brazzo of budgets of the Senate Republicans.
The Senate voted late on Friday when numerous amendments were proposed and voted before the final budget law. (Ap Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)
Reconciliation of the budget It lowers the vote threshold in the Senate from 60 to 51, which allows Republicans to approve some priorities without democratic support.
Washington’s republican trifecta therefore sees reconciliation as a key tool for the delivery of the articles of the Trump agenda.
On Friday evening of the Senate “Vote-A-Rama” was triggered by the Chamber by agreeing on a motion to proceed with the amendment on the resolution of the budget on Thursday evening. Followed almost a day of debate before the start of the series of votes.
During this type of series of votes, the senators of both sides can introduce an unlimited number of amendments and many get votes on the floor.
No amendments were adopted during the series of votes of about six hours.
Some remarkable measures, however, included an amendment by Senator Bernie Sanders, i-VT., To collect the federal minimum wages at $ 17 for a period of five years, an amendment of the leader of the minority to the Senate Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., to limit many of the Trump rates and a bipartisan amendment aimed at blocking the reconciliation invoice to make the cut to Medicoid.
The Senate “Vote-A-Rama” Friday deals with the bill on the past budget while the Republicans hope to obtain a bill of the president’s desk. (Digital/Trump-Vance Fox News Transition Team)
“Tonight, the Senate Democrats gave the Senate Republicans the opportunity to hit the change of Kill on the rates of Donald Trump on Doge, on attacks against social security and medicine and Medicaid,” Schumer said after the vote. “And on every occasion, the Republicans refused.”
Graham declared in an X declaration after the vote: “Tonight, the Senate took a small step towards reconciliation and a giant jump towards permanent tax cuts, ensuring the border, providing help so much necessary for the military and finally cutting the expenditure of expensive Washington.”
The budget would have faced borders financing for the Trump administration and would extend the tax cuts of Hallmark passed in 2017.
Initially, there was a hard disagreement between the Republicans in the Chamber and the Senate on how to organize a resolution of reconciliation of the budget. The leaders of the GoP of the Chamber preferred a bill with the border and taxes included, while those in the Senate wanted to have two separate resolutions for them.
The republicans of the Chamber approved a picture that closely recalls the current spread version of the Senate last month.
But it is not yet clear that the conservatives of the Chamber will accept the Senate plan, despite its similarities with the picture of the lower chamber, with the senate offer to permanently extend the cuts to Trump taxes probably one of the greatest points of dispute.
Republicans are not necessarily on the same page on the reconciliation of the budget. (Reuters)
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The republican majority of the Chamber Budget Committee wrote on X just before the Senate has started its series of votes, “cut taxes without cutting the shopping does not reduce taxes, simply moves the tax burden for our children. We have a generational opportunity – and perhaps our last – to ensure that our tax house in order.”
After combining the framework exceeds the Chamber and the Senate, the Congress Committees relevant will begin to fill in it with the policies and expenses based on their jurisdictions.
Trump expressed support for the Senate’s picture at the beginning of this week, saying in an unrelated event: “If we do it, it will be the most incredible bill ever approved in the history of our congress”.
