(Washington) After more than 24 hours of votes on dozens of amendments, the US Senate seemed to get out of the dead end on Tuesday morning to adopt the massive budget bill of Donald Trump, which publicly fits.
Despite their majority in the upper House of Congress, the Republicans took a long time to agree on several aspects of the text and their managers played the watch until then in order to delay a perilous final vote on this text to several thousand billions of dollars.
It could finally take place in the morning in Washington.
Before that, Donald Trump had posted prudent optimism before the press on the possibility of a rapid adoption of his “great and beautiful law”, as he himself baptized, declaring: “Soon, I hope. »»
For almost a week, the American president has put pressure on parliamentarians to pass this flagship text before July 4, the day of the national holiday that the 79 -year -old republican has set as a symbolic deadline for promulgation.
But time is running out, especially since after an adoption in the Senate, the parliamentary shuttle will return the text to the House of Representatives, which will in turn have to approve the revised version.
Deficit explosion
Main challenges of the “One Big Beautiful Bill”: the extension of colossal 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.
But experts as well as politicians point to the expected explosion of the deficit of the federal state.
The Congress’s Budget Office, responsible for non -supported the impact of public finance bills, estimates that the text would increase the debt by more than $ 3000 billion by 2034.
The extension of “Trump tax credits” alone would cost 4500 billion. To compensate for it in part, the Republicans have planned in particular to slash in Medicaid, a public health insurance program on which millions of Americans depend on modest income.
A drastic reduction in the SNAP program, the main food aid in the country, is also on the program, as well as the abolition of numerous tax incentives with renewable energies adopted under Joe Biden.
Donald Trump, who made this bill a rotating play of his economic program for this second mandate, faces the marked reluctance of certain senators on his own camp, terrified by the electoral risks of these major cups.
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It is not certain either that certain elected conservatives of the House of Representatives accept the changes made by the Senate to their version. However, the Republicans have only one fine majority there and the Democrats are opposed to the bill to the bill.
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The chief of the Democrat minority of the American Senate, Chuck Schumer
To these internal quarrels, was added on Monday the frank and noisy opposition of Elon Musk, who denounced the impact of the text on public debt.
Former close ally of Donald Trump, he had been responsible for slashing in the expenses of the federal state with his Doge commission before the two billionaires are blurred spectacular in the face of the world.
“We live in a country with a single party: the Party of pigs that eat,” cracked the boss of SpaceX and Tesla on its social network X.
The richest man on the planet has warned: if the “One Big Beautiful Bill” is adopted, he will launch a new party and finance the campaign to the republican primaries of candidates opposed to current parliamentarians.
Donald Trump responded dry on Tuesday, with a barely veiled threat.
“He is very angry, but you know, he could lose much more than that,” said the American president, suggesting that Doge to examine the many cases of Elon Musk companies with the federal state.
