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OOn Tuesday night, it seemed that the agenda of Donald Trump would face the first major setback.
House Speaker, Mike Johnson, has drawn the vote on a budget resolution to enable lawmakers to pass the ‘one large, beautiful bill’ that the president wants, with an increase in defense spending, border safety and increased energy exploration, Along with expanding the tax cuts that Trump reported 2017.
But it looked like the leader of home minority, Hakeem Jeffries, became the best of him. Rep. Brittany Pettersen, who was just born three weeks ago, flew from Colorado to block the account. Frederica Wilson, Florida, who regularly missed votes, showed up, just like Rep. California Kevin Mullin, who recovered from a blood clot after surgery.
Tim Burchett, the Avuncular Conservative Congressman of Tennessee who was a hold, has a fist to the Democratic rep. Sarah McBride given. While reporters were waiting for Johnson, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said: “We interrupt a funeral.”
But the budget resolution was rare in the ground when Johnson drew a miraculous resuscitation, such as Burchett as well as Reps Victoria Spartz of Indiana and Warren Davidson of Ohio, who all overturned, and the resolution succeeded.
But now comes the difficult part. The resolution is not the actual policy. On the contrary, it is simply the parameters for the policy that Republican lawmakers want to succeed. Over the past few weeks, the Senate and the house have gone back and forth about who will pass their bill first.
The big divide was whether the Senate, who wants to approve two bills that will later handle the tax cuts, would succeed in front of the house. The Senate approved its bill last week, but the Republicans of the house believe it will give the upper hand.
“It’s important for the house so that the house can actually be on the driver’s seat,” Tom Emmer, majority whip, told the house The independent Before the whip saw vote.
Last week, Trump looked at home when he said he preferred their approach. But the upper room doesn’t take too kind to say what to do. And White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters before the vote that Trump would review both proposals.
Sen Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who was re-elected in North Carolina, said Republicans should resurface the tax cut and work law, the tax cut in 2017 that Trump signed his first year in office.
“The voters will absolutely reject Republicans because they do not fulfill the promise,” he said The independent. The tax cuts, one of Trump’s only legislative achievements during his first term, will expire at the end of this year if the congress does not act.
Trump, of course, promised a number of other tax provisions on the campaign, ranging from no tax on tips, overtime or social security. He also wants to correct the CAP on the state and local tax deductions set by the 2017 Bill to pay for some of the other tax cuts.
“But at the same time, we also have to work on meaningful debt reduction and spending reform, so it’s a lot of work so we can be done with reconciliation,” he said. But some of them will require difficult work and get two -party support.
In addition, the legislation asks that the Energy and Trade Committee will find $ 880 billion cuts. As a result, some are concerned that it will affect Medicaid, the healthcare program for low income and people with disabilities, who are within the jurisdiction of energy and trade.
“Regardless of what happens in this budget process, it is clear that the vast majority of Republicans of House want to cut Medicaid, want to force their Medicaid,” McBride said The independent before the vote.
Some Republicans do not deny that they want to see the federal government act on Medicaid. Rich McCormick, who expressed many of the voters last week about Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in its bright red district in Georgia, said he wanted to see the federal government get his hands off Medicaid.
“The more we can decrease the state level, the less wastage, fraud and abuse,” he said The independent. “So you are much more accountable at the local level than at federal level.”
But Democrats are not the only one who is concerned about cuts to Medicaid. Sen Josh Hawley of Missouri, who made himself a populist pro-labor Republican, said he did not want to see the reduction of Medicaid.
“Working requirements, well,” he said The independent. But he noted how much of his state is on Medicaid or the Children Health Insurance Program (chip). “People rely on these things, and they work people. I think we should be better there, ‘he emphasizes.
Trump for his part said during his interview with Musk about Fox News that Medicaid would not be affected. This makes it more difficult for Republicans to navigate, so they are not seen that they have violated a promise by the leader of their party.
Trump has never been one that ended up in the weeds of policy details. This means that Republicans negotiate with little direction on this bill.
If done in the wrong way, it can lead to a failure that fails, or one that serves as a vibrant grenade for Democrats to use against the IDP, comes 2026.
