(Washington) The Republicans in the American Congress finally succeeded in the night of Thursday to overcome the objections of refractory elected officials in their camp to get closer to a final adoption of the vast budgetary bill of Donald Trump, expected at dawn in Washington.
After the Senate, which approved it right Tuesday, the House of Representatives was to decide on Wednesday on this text of several thousand billions of dollars.
But the displayed opposition of several conservative elected officials – who denounced the digging of public debt with this legislation – forced Republican officials to slow down the process, leaving a procedural vote for more than seven hours.
With a majority of only eight seats, the presidential party cannot afford more than three defections in its own camp.
However when midnight sounded in Washington, five voices “against” were identified among the Republicans for the last procedural ballot, therefore enough to sink the text in theory.
Four of them finally changed their vote – as allowed by the regulations. The culmination of behind the scenes negotiations by the president of the House of Representatives, the Republican Mike Johnson, with the help of the tenant of the White House.
“Maga is not happy”
Because before that, Donald Trump had started to raise the tone.
“What are the Republicans waiting for?” ? ? What are you trying to prove? ? ? “, He launched on his social social platform shortly after midnight.
“Maga is not happy, and it costs you voices,” added heaps of the temperature of 79 years, in reference to her movement “Make America Great Again”.
According to the daily The HillDonald Trump spoke on the phone overnight to convince the Republicans who voted “no” to change their vote.
This “great and beautiful law”, as he baptized, represents the keystone of his economic program. For several weeks, he has been pressing the Congress to adopt it before Friday, the day of the national holiday which he set as a symbolic deadline for the promulgation.
At the top of the bill: the extension of colossal tax credits adopted during the republican first mandate. The elimination of taxation on tips, a flagship promise of its campaign, is also planned, as are additional billions of dollars for defense and the fight against immigration.
According to independent analyzes, the main beneficiaries of the One Big Beautiful Bill However, the wealthiest households will be, while millions of Americans with modest income could lose their access to public health insurance or food assistance programs.
“Slow down our debt”
Experts and politicians also point out the expected explosion of the public deficit.
The Congress Budget Office, responsible for not asking the impact of public finance bills, said on Tuesday that the One Big Beautiful Bill would increase the debt by more than $ 3400 billion by 2034.
“I came to Washington to help brake our national debt,” said Keith Self, an elected representative in the House, to justify having voted “no” during the procedural vote.
The elected Texan accused his colleagues from the Senate of having “trampled” the version previously adopted in the House, before adding that in the end it was for him “a question of morality”.
Like three other colleagues, he finally changed his vote “for” a few hours later.
To partially compensate for the widening of the deficit, the Republicans plan to slash in Medicaid, a public health insurance program on which millions of Americans depend on low incomes.
A radical reduction in the SNAP program, the main food aid in the country, is also planned, as well as the abolition of numerous tax incentives in favor of renewable energies adopted under Joe Biden.
Unsurprisingly, the Democrats oppose the text as a whole.
Their leader in the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, called him as a “repugnant monstrosity” which “will make ordinary Americans suffer” for the benefit of the richest.
