(Washington) The American senators could adopt the megaproject of the budgetary law of Donald Trump on Monday, who displays his confidence despite reluctance even in his own republican camp.
The “One Great Big Beautiful Bill”, as the American president renamed him with his customary emphasis for the occasion, “advances well”, welcomed Mr. Trump on his Truth Social network on Monday.
“The Trump administration has considerably reduced costs for American consumers. Never nothing like this has been done before! “Added the American president, in defense of his budgetary” big and beautiful law “, a centerpiece of his economic program.
One way for him to put pressure on the upper room of the congress, which officially started examining the text on Saturday evening.
President Trump is absolutely due to that this bill will reach his office for promulgation before Friday, the day of the national holiday.
The Democratic Senators, criticism of the text, insisted that he was read in full before the elected officials. Reading the thousand pages therefore pushed the start of the debates from around 16 hours.
Recalcitrant republican senators had already delayed the official opening of the exam, some wishing to make substantive changes to the text before subjecting it to the voting in the hemicycle.
The opening motion was thus accurately adopted by 51 votes to, 49 against (including two Republicans).
Before national holiday?
The voting in the Senate of the bill, already adopted by the House of Representatives, could take place on Monday. Asked about CNN, the Republican senator from Alabama, Katie Britt, said he would have “probably” placed on this date.
The parliamentary shuttle will then return to the lower room to approve the revised version.
Trump had urged Republican senators on Thursday to override their laws on certain points in his law and adopt the text as quickly as possible.
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US President Donald Trump
He had accused Democrats of delaying the procedure for political reasons. “There are a lot of bad people in the Democratic Party,” he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday on the Fox News channel.
The budgetary bill provides for the extension of massive tax credits adopted during Mr. Trump’s first term, but also the elimination of taxation on tips, or additional billions of dollars for defense and the fight against immigration.
The Congress’s Budget Office, responsible for non-supported the impact of public finance bills, estimated on Sunday that it would increase public debt by more than $ 3000 billion by 2034.
An “insane” project for Musk
To compensate for the extension of these tax credits, valued at 4500 billion dollars, the presidential party has planned in particular to slash in Medicaid, public health insurance program on which millions of Americans with modest income depend, to greatly reduce the SNAP program, the main food aid of the country, and to return to tax incentives for renewable energies.
The democratic opposition, a minority in the two chambers, continues to criticize tax reductions for the richest to the detriment of a working class already overwhelmed by inflation.
Former support of Mr. Trump, billionaire Elon Musk once again expressed on Saturday on X his opposition to this bill which he deems “completely insane and destructive”, because, according to him, he “promotes the industries of the past while causing serious damage to the industries of the future”.
“He will destroy millions of jobs in America and will cause immense strategic damage to our country,” warned the one who, before breaking spectacularly with Mr. Trump, had been responsible for setting up the Federal Doge commission, commissioned to melt federal public spending.
