(Washington) Discussions drag on Friday in the American Senate, where Republican elected officials are struggling to agree on their version of the megaproject of budgetary law pushed by Donald Trump, who urges his troops to adopt him quickly.
“The wonderful Republicans in the United States Senate will work all weekend to complete our” big and beautiful law “,” said the American president on his Truth Social platform.
The 79 -year -old Republican faces certain refractory senators in his own camp, who wish to make substantive changes to the text before sending him to the voting in the hemicycle.
The day before, the president had warned them: “We do not need people who make the interesting. »»
Donald Trump still hopes that the bill will reach his office for promulgation before July 4, the day of the national holiday.
His law “One Big Beautiful Bill”, as he baptized, promises to materialize some of his most important campaign promises.
First, the extension of tax credits adopted during its first mandate, but also the elimination of taxation on tips, or additional billions of dollars for defense and the fight against immigration.
In order to compensate (among other things) the expensive extension of “Trump tax credits”, the presidential party has planned to slash in Medicaid, the public health insurance program on which millions of Americans depend on modest income, but also to greatly reduce the SNAP program, the country’s main food aid.
He also plans to return to numerous tax incentives with renewable energies, set up under Joe Biden.
Already adopted in the House of Representatives, the text is in discussions currently in the Senate, where republican officials still hope to vote by the end of the weekend. The parliamentary shuttle will then return to the lower room to approve the revised version.
On the right, some elected officials of the room have already warned that they could oppose the text if too much modifications were made to it. With the risk of leading new delays and not respecting the date of July 4 claimed by Donald Trump.
If the Republicans in fact control the two chambers of the Congress, their margins are fine, and party officials know that they cannot afford a large number of protesters in their camp. Especially since on the other side, the Democrats oppose the text.
