(Washington) The final adoption of the vast budgetary bill of Donald Trump accuses late Wednesday at the American Congress, where several elected conservatives display their opposition to the digging of the public debt provided by this flagship text of the Republican President.
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After the Senate, which approved it right Tuesday, the House of Representatives was to decide during the day on this text of several thousand billions of dollars.
But uncertainty around the outcome of the final vote has forced Republican officials to put a brake on the process, leaving the procedural votes open for several hours.
With a majority of only eight seats, the presidential party cannot afford more than three voices “against” in its own camp.
The president of the House of Representatives, the Republican Mike Johnson, posted his optimism in the afternoon.
“We’re going to get there this evening,” the chamber president told the press, before praising the progress made in negotiations with the refractory.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump had urged them to get into the rank, calling for “the republicans in the room unite” and “ignore those who sometimes make the interesting (you know who you are!)”.
“Renaissance”
This “big and beautiful law”, as the American president baptized it, represents the keystone of his economic program. He pressed 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.
Donald Trump promised Wednesday that in the event of the adoption of the text, “America will experience an economic rebirth as never seen before”.
According to independent analyzes, the main beneficiaries will however be the wealthiest households, while millions of Americans with modest income could lose their access to public health insurance or food assistance programs.
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The chief of the minority of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, speaks on the marches of the Capitol before the vote in the House of Representatives on the final adoption of the budget bill of President Donald Trump, in Washington, on July 2, 2025.
Experts and politicians also point out the expected explosion of the public deficit.
“Monstrosity”
The Congress Budget Office, responsible for as a non -supported assessment of the impact of public finance bills, estimated Tuesday that the “One Big Beautiful Bill” would increase the debt by more than $ 3400 billion by 2034. The extension of tax credits alone would cost 4,500 billion.
An unacceptable forecast for several conservative parliamentarians, followers of the balance of public finances, and which they cite as a reason for their opposition to the text.
“It is hard for me to imagine that he will pass as is. There are incredibly bad things in there, “Republican Andy Biggs said on Tuesday in Ktar News, a radio from his state, Arizona.
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 drastic reduction in the SNAP program, the main food aid in the country, is also planned, as well as the abolition of numerous tax incentives for the 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.
