Washington – Days before Republicans presented His tax reduction plan, the president of the powerful forms and media committee had a last person to consult. He went to the White House, where he and the president Donald Trump He reviewed the legislation “Line per line”.
“I was very happy with what we are delivering,” said representative Jason Smith, a Republican from Missouri.
Trump had all the reasons to be pleased. Its imprint is ended in the bill that makes its way through the Chamber, starting with its title, the ” A great bill. ”
The legislation perform Many of the promises of the Trump campaign, which temporarily end taxes on extra hours and tips for many workers, creating a new tax exemption of $ 10,000 on the interest of car loans for cars for cars manufactured in the United States and even creating a new “magician account” tax free, a movement of view to its movement “Make America Great Again” And the advance. ” This would contribute to $ 1,000 to children born in their second term.
Trump inspired contours of the legislative package, months if not years in creation, reflect not only the president’s considerable influence on the Republican Party, but also the harsh political realities in the Chamber, where Republicans only have the MORE MORTIMALITIES It is often difficult to find consensus without Trump’s participation.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., It should indeed His work for Trump and has remained in constant contact with him during the negotiations, even during his trip abroad this week.
“He is excited about our progress forward,” Johnson said. “You know, I keep it informed of the developments, and it has had a time busy there in the Middle East, and it has been good, it is in a good mood and we are in a good mood.”
The Republican bill executes a Frylera of 1,116 pages and includes more than $ 5 billion in tax cuts, costs that are partially compensated for expense cuts in other places and other changes in the fiscal code. The legislation would make Trump’s tax cuts permanent First period While reducing financing for programs that involve food assistance, university financing and environmental protection.
As conversations on the bill have progressed, divisions have emerged among Republicans, particularly among the fiscal hawks most concerned about federal deficits and others more focused on the impact of the cuts back home.
That’s where Trump usually enters, playing the “closest” that does not turn the votes itself.
“President Trump has done everything possible to ask us:” Is there any member you want to call? Anyone whoever speaks with? “And he calls them at that time,” said the leader of the majority of the Steve Scalise camera, R-La. “It has been incredibly practical and incredibly useful to get the bill where it is.”
Trump’s participation seems to grow as Johnson works to obtain the tax package through the house through a self -imposed deadline of the Fallen Day.
The conservatives decreased the process on Friday, refusing to advance the tax package of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives until it includes a faster implementation of Medicaid changes and one more to wholesale than wholesale Green Energy Credits of the Biden Age. They promised to stand firm until their demands are met.
Trump realized, applying pressure even before the deck was reduced in the failed vote of the committee.
“We do not need ‘grandparents’ in the Republican party,” Trump wrote on social networks. “Stop talking and do it!”
The negotiations were expected to run over the weekend, with the Budget Committee that was recovered on Sunday night with the hope of an advance.
Representative Mike Rogers, R-Ala., President of the Chamber’s Armed Services Committee, predicted that the tax package will exceed the finish line once Trump only returns from a tour of the Middle East, begins to make calls to skeptical legislators.
“You may have noticed that you like to talk on the phone,” Rogers said.
The added representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, “I think that the only way we are going to put on the way is with Trump.”
The close coordination with the Republican leaders contrasts with Trump’s first mandate, when the party first promulgated a series of personal and corporate tax exemptions. The Republicans quickly adopted that tax package at the end of 2017 after a Disstructrous attempt When fulfilling its promise of central campaign, repealing and replacing the law of low -price health care, often called Obamacare.
This time, White House attendees have been in regular contact with the legislators of the Republican party as the tax bill progresses through drafts and brands, highlighting programs that aim to review and the provisions they would like to add or cut.
The president “is much more committed to directing what happens than the first time because he and the leadership of Congress in 2017 were not seeing face to face,” said Scalise. “I did not necessarily want medical care was the first thing that was done, and yet, this time we talked long before it sworn to ensure that we were all on the same page.”
Trump began establishing the course of the current legislative strategy of the Republican Party in January, when he published on social networks that Republicans should approve “a powerful bill” that would address all the priorities of the party instead of dividing the agenda into two packages.
The Senate Republicans defended a different approach. They urged the rapid approval of a bill to provide billions for the Pentagon and Trump’s immigration repression, saying that a second tax package could wait until later.
Trump hesitated For a while, giving Republicans in Capitol Hill mixed signals about the best approach. But his original preference for a bill won at the end, partly because the Republicans of the House of Representatives insisted that their camera could not do it otherwise.
Democrats oppose the package evenly, but have little power to prevent it from becoming law if Republicans remain unified. As they continue to deal with the losses of the party in last year’s elections, the Democrats have worked to mobilize the public opposition to the bill, denouncing it as a draw for the rich paid with cuts to medical care and other social services.
Representative Pramila Jayopal, D-Wash., He called “a big and beautiful betrayal.”
Republicans, meanwhile, are eager to move forward and take the tax package to the Senate, hoping to take it on Trump’s desk for July 4.
Burchett said that while “everyone rises in a fair outrage” about the details, the Republicans will begin to “come to the table” once Trump is completely compromised.
“It’s like a NBA basketball game at this time,” said Burchett. “Don’t look at the game. Just wait until the last two minutes and then light television.”
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Associated Press Kevin Freking writer contributed.
