The House Republicans adopted the Cancellation of Cancellation of $ 9 billion from President Donald Trump on Thursday evening after the Senate Republicans made minor changes to the bill.
The package was adopted on a large part 216-213 party line. All Democrats and two Republicans – Michael Turner (R -OH) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R -P -PA) – voted against the bill. The vote was exercised for hours while the Republicans were fighting with each other about a vote on a non -binding resolution asking the Trump administration to publish files on the case of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The cancellation software is effectively authorized the actions that the White House has already taken to recover billions of foreign aid and the financing of the public media which was previously authorized by the Congress. In the rubber stammering the package of cancellations without specificities from which the cuts will come exactly, the vote also sends the message according to which the republicans of the congress are largely disturbed by the targeting constitutionally behind the White House of Trump.
The executive power had already retained many of the funds in question even before trying to request the approval of the congress. The attached package is part of an effort to give the unleashing of the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government by the Federal Government a certain legitimacy by allowing Congress a vote on this subject.
The voting of the Chamber intervened less than 24 hours after the Republicans of the Senate narrowly approved the cups that Trump asked in a vote of 51-48. Sense. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) had joined the Democrats early Thursday morning and voted “no”, citing concerns about the cuts of public broadcasting and foreign aid, as well as the lack of clarity of the White House and the Budget of Management and Budget on exactly the request.
Earlier this week, the White House agreed to lower a reduction of $ 400 million to the President’s emergency plan for the relief of AIDS (PEPFAR) – a global HIV and prevention program of President George W. Bush – to influence the Senate Republicans who are concerned about this element of the proposal.
This brought the request of the $ 9.4 billion of $ 9 billion dollars, triggering a second vote which will be held on the floor of the Chamber to approve the changes to the bill.
Republicans have also added a new language in the package promising that areas linked to food aid, maternal health, malaria and tuberculosis would not be affected by cuts and that certain food aid programs would be protected.
Now Trump will have to sign the bill of accounts before the end of Friday, in order to avoid missing the 45 -day clock which begins with an official request for involvement.
Meanwhile, the director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought told journalists on Thursday that the White House planned to send another Congress resistance package.
The White House indicated that it could try in September to reduce funds for good -in -law of the congress for good. The unstoppted and doubtful maneuver – “pocket rackets” – would oblige the Trump administration to wait until the end of the financial year to once again formally formally form the congress to recover a set of funds. This request would begin another 45 -day clock, in which the president is legally authorized to delay the spending the funds in question while the Congress makes the decision to cancel the previously appropriate expenses.
But even if the congress does not vote on request, the frost in place would ultimately allow the Trump administration not to spend the money until it expires at the end of the fiscal year, said Vought. Such an attempt would probably arouse disputes in court.
