Washington – After abruptly stopping the votes, the house Speaker Mike Johnson He promised to try again on Thursday to approve a Republican Budget frame, After having worked at night to satisfy the withdrawals of the Republican party, who refused to advance in billions of taxes in tax exemptions without deeper expenses.
Even a strong thrust President Donald Trump He could not put the package to the approval. Johnson was forced to abandon Wednesday’s scheduled action as the Republican intransigents He left it without sufficient support and risked to change what the president calls the “great and beautiful bill”, which is essential for Your agenda of tax cuts, mass deportations and a smaller federal government.
“The president is very anxious for us to do this,” said Johnson, R-La., Said when he left a night meeting with Republican legislators. He said he expects votes on Thursday.
Pushing the framework framework would record another milestone for Johnson, who can only lose some detractors of his thin majority. A failed vote, particularly because the economy was convulsing Trump’s commercial warsIt would be a great setback for the republican agenda in Washington.
“Stop the great!” Trump had admonished the Republicans during a black tie fundraising dinner at the National Building Museum earlier.
Trump told Republicans: “Close the eyes and get there.”
But for Wednesday afternoon, the result was in flow. At least a dozen conservative Republicans, if not more, firmly faced the plan. Several of them, including the members of the Ultraconservative Freedom Caucus, made the unusual movement of walking through the Capitol to meet privately with the leaders of the Senate Republican Party to insist on deeper cuts.
When the night fell, Johnson took a group of Republicans to a private meeting room when the camera’s procedures were paralyzed. They stayed at night with alternatives.
Johnson said he spoke with Trump for about five minutes while the republican party meeting was held. The speaker of the Republican party said they are trying to determine the minimum amount of cuts and savings “that will satisfy everyone.”
The options include amending the Senate bill or having a conference committee to resolve differences, among others. “There are some different ideas on the table,” said Johnson.
“We want everyone to have a high degree of comfort about what is happening here, and we have a small subset of members who were not fully satisfied with the product as it is,” said Johnson.
But the conservatives of the Republican party, including several of those who met personally with Trump in the White House this week, kept concerned about the plane of the Senate Republican Party, approved last weekendDoes not reduce spending at the level they think is necessary to help prevent high deficits.
“Mathematics does not add up,” published the representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, on social networks. He said he would not support him.
The representative Andy Harris, R-MD., President of Freedom Caucus, led others to meet with the leader of the Senate John Thune, RS.D. and other Republicans of the Top Senate.
“All we can do is make sure they understand where we are going and how close we want to work with them to get to the final product,” said Thune later.
But the leader of the Senate Republican Party drew the idea that the Chamber sent a modified version, which would require another possible voting session throughout the night like the senators suffered last weekend. “We cannot do that, another vote-a-rama, which drags it indefinitely,” Tune said.
The camera and the Senate are still in the initial phase of a process that will have been for weeks, if not months, since they turn their budgetary resolutions into legislative text, a final product with more votes later this spring or summer.
Democrats, in the minority, do not have enough votes to stop the package, but have warned against.
The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, said that the budget plan of the Republicans is reckless and insensitive, since he proposes to cut budgets to give tax exemptions to the rich.
“We are here to make it clear,” said Jeffries. “The Americans who struggle to reach the end of the month.”
The Budget Center is a republican effort to preserve the tax exemptions approved in 2017, during Trump’s first mandate, while potentially added the new ones he promised in the campaign. That does not include taxes on salaries with tip, social security income and others, price balloons for about $ 7 billion during the decade.
The package also allows the budget to be increased with about $ 175 billion to pay Trump’s mass deportation operation and both for the Department of Defense to boost military spending.
Everything would be paid in part with steep cuts to national programs, including medical care, as part of the $ 2 billion in reductions described in the version of the Chamber’s Republican Party package, although several Republican senators have indicated that they are not willing to get so far.
To cut costs, the Senate is using an unusual accounting method that does not have the costs of preserving the 2017 tax cuts, about $ 4.5 billion, as new expenses, another factor that is enraging chamber conservatives.
Two Republican senators voted against their package during a weekend session during the night: Maine’s senator, Susan Collins, opposed medicaid cuts in the framework of the camera, while Kentucky senator Rand Paul argued that the entire package was based on “suspicious” mathematics that would be added to the debt.
The package would also increase the nation’s debt limit to allow more loans to pay the invoices. Trump had wanted legislators to remove the politically difficult issue from the table. With a debt now $ 36 billion, the Treasury department said it will run out of funds in August.
But the camera and the Senate also need to solve their differences in the debt limit. The Republican Party of the House of Representatives increases the debt limit by $ 4 billion, but the Senate Republican Party increased to $ 5 billion, so Congress would not have to visit the theme again until after the mid -autumn period elections of 2026.
With Trump’s commercial wars floating on the debate, the Republicans of the House of Representatives put a provision in a procedure vote that would avoid the action of the representatives chamber, as the Senate has taken, to Trump’s rates disapprove.
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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Stephen Groves, Leah Askarinam and Matt Brown contributed to this report.
