Washington – Republican senators will meet Wednesday morning with President Donald Trump at the White House while advancing in their Great bill of tax exemptions and expenses When delaying some of the most difficult decisions, including costs and how to pay the billionaire package.
The budget frame of the Senate Republican Party would be the partner of the Package of tax cuts of the Republicans of the House of Representatives of the House of Representatives which also requires cutting about $ 2 billion health care and other programs. If the Senate can move the forward plan, it would launch Trump’s allies in Capitol Hill closer to a commitment Establishing the stage For a final product in the coming weeks.
“Obviously, we hope this week that we can obtain a budget resolution on the floor that will unlock the process,” he said Leader of the Senate John ThuneRS.D. “And so we continue advancing with that.”
Thune and the Republicans in the Senate Budget Committee meet with Trump before the expected public release of their budget plan by the president of the Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, as soon as the afternoon.
While Great differences remainRepublicans face a growing political pressure to comply with what is expected to be Trump’s internal policy package: extend tax cuts, which were Initially approved in 2017During his first mandate in the White House. These tax exemptions expire at the end of the year, and Trump wants to expand them to include new There are no taxes on wages, the payment of overtime and other profitsas promised during the 2024 campaign.
Democrats are preparing to oppose the tax plans of the Republican party as gifts to the rich, arriving as a billionaire Elon Musk Government Efficiency Department He is taking a “chain saw” to the federal government. They warn that Republicans plan to reduce government programs and services that millions of Americans depend throughout the country.
“We are together against the fiscal scam of the Republican Party and in defense of the American people”, Democratic leader of the House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries He said with others in the steps of the Capitol on Tuesday night.
A main conflict point between the republican party plans of the Chamber and the Senate has ended whether the existing tax cuts, which are estimated to cost the federal government $ 4.5 billion during the decade in lost income, must be paid by means of expenses reductions elsewhere. Adding Trump’s new tax exemptions to the package would make the price the price.
To compensate for costs, Republicans of the House of Representatives demand about $ 2 billion in cuts to medical care and other accounts to stop federal deficits and prevent debt load of $ 36 billion from the nation to shoot.
But Republican senators have a different approach. They consider that because the tax cuts are already the current policy, they would not be new and would not need to be paid. They want to use this current policy baseline in the future, which means that only the other tax exemptions of Trump would come with a new cost. It is expected to establish much lower expenditure cuts such as a floor that can be raised, if necessary, to commit to the cuts of $ 2 billion from the house.
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer from New York, and the main Democrats call the Senate Republican Party approach at best, if not a direct “lie”.
“It is an obscene fraud and the American people will not defend it,” said Schumer, Senator Jeff Merkley, of the Budget Committee and Senator Ron Wyden, of the Finance Committee in a letter to the leadership of the Republican Party.
Democratic New Jersey Cory Booker Senator He argued against the baseline of the Republican Party as “a trick” that would reduce important federal services while there were deficits.
“What they are investing are larger tax cuts for the richest,” Booker said during a historical speech during the night.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besent And the leaders of the Republican Party of Congress have gathered in private as Trump’s priority package stirred in Capitol Hill. In a meeting with other Senate Republicans on Monday night at the Capitol, Besent urged them to do so.
In general, the current policy baseline proposal would need to approve the meeting of The non -partisan parliamentarian of the Senate To ensure that it meets the strict rules of the budget process. The senators of both matches have been discussing in closed door sessions with parliamentary staff, for and against the idea.
But the leaders of the Republican party say that they do not necessarily need the Senate parliamentarian, at this time, to solve the problem, and believe that Graham, as president of the Senate Budget Committee, has the authority to allow its current policy reference approach.
What is safer is that they want to move quickly this week to approve the frame. That will imply a long vote of the whole night that could crawl to the weekend. Then, they will solve the details later when the Republicans, facing the democratic opposition, build the real package for consideration in the weeks, if not months, ahead.
