Washington – Political battle lines feel for a debate in Washington and beyond a Republican Budget Plan That is a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.
With the plan Senate approval controlled by the Republican Party In a vote that ended on Saturday morning, Republicans hope to take advantage of their position of power in Washington to promulgate up to $ 7 billion in Tax exasperationsboost border security to mass deportations and reduce government financing, and do it “without a single democratic vote,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C., president of the Senate Budget Committee.
The Democrats, as a minority party, could not stop the budget plan. But during the night session, they offered a Preview of political attacks It probably arrives not only during the period prior to the final vote this summer, but through the 2026 campaign.
“We may not have the votes to stop them all for ourselves,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., “But we can use what Republicans are trying to do with this tax bill to turn on a fire throughout this country.”
Here is a look at what happened and what comes next:
Trump rates hung on him Budget debateEconomic uncertainty intervened in an unimaginable way a few days before the senators prepared to vote.
At the time, Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer from New York, presented an amendment to show that concern: he asked for the end of recently announced import taxes, which could result in higher prices for domestic items, while maintaining tariffs to China, Russia, Iran and other US adversaries.
“President Trump’s tariff tax is one of the most dumb things he has done as president, and that is to say something,” said Schumer.
He repeatedly pointed out that remote islandsIncluding one inhabited by the penguins, they were beaten with tariffs, but not the Russia of President Vladimir Putin.
“No Putin penguins,” said Schumer.
The amendment failed. The slogan is still alive.
Democrats say that Republicans represent serious threats for the nation’s security networks while looking for cost savings to help compensate for the lost income of tax exemptions, and as Elon Musk’s Efficiency Department of the Government It is cut through the federal government.
Among the more than two dozen amendments offered during the debate were several to protect Medicaid, Social Security, Food Coupons, Children Star care, meals on wheels for older adults and others. Several Republicans joined the Democrats to vote to preserve these programs, including Senator Josh Hawley in Missouri. Senator Susan Collins, R-MAINE, opposed the entire package in a warning against the steep medicaid cuts.
Senator Ed Markey, D-Mass., Who offered an amendment to save the Social Security telephone service, said Musk and Dege are “accelerating their chainsaw” to come after him.
“They say: ‘Link, grandmother’,” Markey said, mocking the notion of older people who can’t collect the phone.
Central of the Republican Budget, and Trump’s internal policy agenda, is the effort to preserve the tax exemptions approved in 2017 during its first mandate.
Although many of the income tax exemptions are popular, including child tax credit or reinforced standard deduction, Democrats argue that much of the benefit flows to the accommodation.
The Democrats accumulated a series of amendments that try to prohibit fiscal exemptions for the ultra rich, only to be denied by the Republicans.
It is a confrontation that is expected to continue through the debate and the campaign season ahead.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, republican of La-La., Changed the conversation to what the Republicans see for them as a more politically favorable direction, focused on federal expenditure.
“We have heard a lot about the mass tax cuts for billionaires,” he said while the night was extended. “But the only thing you don’t hear much is the race in federal spending.”
He Nation Debt ChargeNow $ 36 billion, continues to rise.
At least a republican deficit hawk, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky did not say more.
“What is it: we are reducing spending or are we adding to debt?” Paul said during the debate, before voting against the bill.
He argued that the Budget Plan would add $ 5 billion to the debt for 10 years, echoing an evaluation of the Joint Bipartisan Tax Committee.
“You scratch your head and say, what’s here?”
But for Senator Bill Cassidy, republican of the la-la., The impact of tariffs was a factor in his decision to vote for the budget resolution, despite his concerns that fiscal exemptions would increase the federal deficit.
Cassidy said he didn’t want to cast a vote that could “increase uncertainty in the economy.”
“This vote does not take place in a vacuum,” he said.
