Washington – President Trump’s Megabill comprises his domestic agenda on Monday got closer to becoming the law While the Republican senators searched for procedural obstacles for a final vote on legislation that would drastically transform the tax code and Medicaid.
During a day of voting Marathon, senators offered changes to the bill that could ultimately decide whether it secures the passage by the congress. If the Senate approves the legislation – as expected by a slender, simple majority and with dual opposition – then the house will have to vote for the last text for a second time before it goes to the president’s office for his signature.
Anticipating the Senate Passage, the House Rules Committee has already planned a hearing on reconciling the two accounts for Tuesday. The White House Earlier set on July 4 As a goal to get the package, called the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’, both rooms was adopted.
But various Republicans still criticize the bill, including Sens. Rand Paul van Kentucky and Thom Tillis van North Carolina, who announced He will not seek re -election in 2026 During the weekend before they set up the legislation as a “betrayal” for voters.
Although the legislation has Hundreds of facilitiesThe most drastic would make tax benefits permanently in 2017 during Trump’s first term – an expensive proposition – before they end at the end of this year, while trying to compensate for a number of those costs with historical cuts on Medicaid and the additional nutritional tool, social welfare programs that had been seen as a political third rails for decades.
Polling shows that Americans broadly support the expansion of the 2017 tax cuts. Other expensive programs in the account – including extra financing for border security and defense – also enjoy public support. But polls indicate that the public in general rejects the bill by a double number margin because of the cuts on core programs for the government.
“What should I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years, when President Trump breaks through his promise by pushing them from Medicaid because the financing is no longer there?” Tillis said in a speech from the senate floor. “The people in the White House who advise the president do not tell him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise.”
Both Paul and Tillis voted against promoting the bill for a floor voice and indicated that they will vote “no” for the last passage.
“Republicans are about to make a mistake about health care and to betray a promise,” Tillis continued. “It is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the promise that Donald J. Trump has done in the Oval Office or in the cabinet room when I was there with Finance [Committee members] Where he said, “We can go for waste, fraud and abuse in all programs.” ‘
Tillis and a handful of his Gop colleagues, including senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, have expressed concern about elements of the bill that limit the tax tax on care providers, known as the ‘provider tax’, an essential tool for many states to fill Medicaid -Financing.
The Senate Parliamentarian has already established that the provision, among other things, does not follow the rules of the Chamber and must be removed or changed. Another passage that is crucial for the bill, which introduces a structure for work requirements for Medicaid, was stopped by the parliamentarian.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) speaks on 30 June 2025 with reporters outside the room.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press)
Republicans efforts to prohibit the use of Medicaid funds in the field of gender crossing, to cancel rules that require a minimal personnel ratio in nursing homes and to limit access to medicid to immigrants, were also cut by the parliamentarian, which changed changes in the account in the Monday.
The movements of the parliamentarian eat in the stated cost savings of a account that is already planned to add trillions of dollars to the debt in the coming decade – a problem for tax hawks in both rooms whose voices will be crucial for Passage.
They also set out important provisions that were the top priorities for Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the focus of an intense lobby campaign by Senate Republican leadership after expressing skepticism on different provisions of legislation. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has the next cycle re-election, has also expressed his concern about his cuts on Medicaid.
“This is a continuous process – the president remains very involved in leadership in both the Senate and the House,” said Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary of the White House, reporters in a briefing Monday. “He understands that legislators want to protect jobs in the communities and their districts.”
Democrats in the Senate are united in their opposition against the bill, with Mark Kelly, from Arizona, warning from Republicans for election repercussions.
“If they lose their health insurance,” he told MSNBC in an interview, “sure, they will remember it.”
But the potential political windfall for Democrats does not stop the party to try to improve legislation, he said, and noted that a number of changes were proposed by Democratic Senators on Monday that would reverse cuts on Medicaid and Snap.
If the bill eventually knew the Senate, the Republicans will only have a handful of votes in the house to save in a definitive mood. And several suggests that they will vote against it, including Rep. David Valadao from California, whose voters are highly dependent on Medicaid.
“I am not necessarily a ‘yes’,” said Rep. Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska who has announced his retirement. Bacon added that he believes that the senate version has gone too far in lottery tickets. “I think we have a hard time passing.”
An intraparty fight is also housed among Republicans about the fate of the tax credits of green energy, which tried to retain several Gop people – including Murkowski, as well as Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst van Iowa – for a few years. A group of home republicans had successfully lobbyed in their version of the account to accelerate the termination of those credits.
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla, and Trump’s close adviser and benefactor before the two men fell a month ago, renewed his attacks On the legislation on Monday, the “completely insane and destructive” because of its price tag.
“It is clear with the insane editions of this bill that increases the debt ceiling with a record of five trillion dollars that we live in a country of one party living the pig party !!” Musk wrote.
“Time for a new political party,” he added, “that actually cares about the people.”
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