The official opening of the debate was decided with 51 to 49 votes, two of Trump’s Republicans voted against the opposition Democrats. Previously, the Republicans had long discussed the version in which the household law was to be passed, which had already been approved by the House of Representatives. Some Republican senators still see great change.
The leaders of the Republicans in the Senate want the law to be decided there this weekend so that the submission of the second congress chamber changed by the Senate can then be presented again for voting. Only then can Trump put it into force with his signature.
Trump wants to implement some of his central election promises with the “Big Beautiful Bill”. For example, tax reliefs from its first term of $ 4.5 trillion are to be extended (3.84 trillion euros). In addition, taxes are to be deleted on drinking money and additional billions of billions for defense and the fight against illegal immigration are to be released. The planned measures mean an increase in government debt by more than three trillion dollars.
In order to counter these expenses, the state health insurance program Medicaid should be painted together, on which millions of US citizens rely on low income. The most important state program for food aids should also be drastically saved. Trump also wants to delete tax relief for climate -friendly technologies introduced by his democratic predecessor Joe Biden.
The opposition Democrats, which are in both congress chambers in the minority, accuse the Trump government to finance tax reliefs for rich at the expense of the workers’ layer that had already been heavily stressed by inflation. They want to delay the vote beyond the law. The Democrats asked for the entire legal text to be read out loud before the debate in the Senate. The template is about 1000 pages long; It would be an estimated 15 hours.
“The Republicans don’t want to say America what is in the law,” said the Democrats’ minority leader in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, the claim. “So the Democrats force that it will be read in the plenum from front to back. We will stay here all night when it takes so long to read it.”
Meanwhile, the Republicans try to keep their ranks closed because they can only afford a few deviators. Her senators are in particular divided because of the high debt and the cuts in Medicaid, through which an estimated 8.6 million US citizens would lose their health care.
According to surveys, the Budget Act is rejected by many US citizens. According to independent analyzes, it would lead to a fundamental redistribution at the expense of the poorest ten percent of the population and to the advantage of the richest in the country.
