Washington – President Trump’s megabill encompassing his national program on Monday came closer to the law while the Republican senators sank by procedural obstacles familiar to a final vote on the legislation which would considerably transform the tax and Medicaid code.
Throughout a day of voting from the marathon, the senators have offered changes to the bill which could finally decide if it ensures the transition from Congress. If the Senate approves the legislation – as it is supposed to do by a thin and simple majority and with bipartite opposition – then the room will have to vote for a second time on the final text before it is at the president’s office for its signature.
Anticipating the adoption of the Senate, the Rules of the Chamber Committee has already planned an audience on the reconciliation of the two bills for Tuesday. The White House previously set on July 4 as a goal of obtaining the package, called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, adopted by the two bedrooms.
But several Republicans still criticize the bill, notably Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis from North Carolina, who announced that he would not ask for re-election in 2026 during the weekend before relaxing in the legislation as “betrayal” to voters.
Although the legislation has hundreds of provisions, its more sweeping would make tax loss adopted in 2017 during Trump’s first mandate – an expensive proposal – before they should expire at the end of this year, while trying to compensate for some of these costs with historic cups in Medicaid and the additional nutrition assistance program, Welfare social programs that were considered A third rail.
The survey shows that Americans largely support the extension of tax reductions in 2017. Other expensive programs in the bill – including additional financing for border security and defense – also benefit from public support. But the polls indicate that the public disapproves of the bill as a whole by a two -digit margin due to its reductions in the main government programs.
“What am I saying to 663,000 people in two years or three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them from Medicaid because the funding is no longer there?” Tillis said in a Senate speech. “The inhabitants of the White House advise the president do not tell him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise.”
Paul and Tillis voted against the progress of the bill to a ground vote and said they would vote “no” on his last adoption.
“Republicans are about to make a mistake on health care and betray a promise,” said Tillis. “It is essential that this bill in its current form betrays the promise that Donald J. Trump made in the oval office, or in the cabinet room, when I was there with finance [Committee members] Where he said, “We can go after waste, fraud and abuse on all programs”. »»
Tillis and a handful of his GOP colleagues, including Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, have expressed their concern concerning the elements of the bill that restrict state taxes on health care providers, called “Taxes on service providers”, an essential tool for many states in their efforts to complete the funding of Medicaid.
The Senate parliamentarian has already determined that the provision, among other things, does not respect the rules of the chamber and must be deleted or modified. Another crucial passage for the bill, which introduces a structure for work requirements for Medicaid, was interrupted by the parliamentarian.
The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.), talks to journalists outside the room on June 30, 2025.
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The efforts of the Republicans to prohibit the use of Medicaid funds on gender transitional care, to cancel regulations which require a minimum endowment ratio in nursing homes and to limit access to Medicaid to immigrants have also been reduced by Parliament, which continued to examine the changes in the bill when Intcontable on Monday.
The parliamentarian’s movements eat in the indicated cost savings of a bill which should already add billions of dollars to debt during the next decade – a problem for tax farics in both chambers whose votes will be crucial for adoption.
They also emptied key arrangements that were the main priorities for Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, the objective of an intense lobbying campaign by the Republican Senate management after expressed skepticism with regard to several provisions of the legislation. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), who is ready to re-elect the next cycle, also expressed her concerns about her Medicaid cups.
“This is an ongoing process – the president continues to be very committed to the leaders of the Senate and the House,” the journalists told Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary of the White House. “He understands that legislators want to protect jobs in communities and their districts.”
The Democrats of the Senate were united in their opposition to the bill, with Mark Kelly, of Arizona, warning the Republicans of electoral repercussions.
“If they lose their health insurance,” he told MSNBC in an interview, “of course, they will remember.”
But the potential political windfall for Democrats does not prevent the party from trying to improve legislation, he said, noting a number of amendments proposed by the Democratic senators on Monday that would make MEDICAID and SNAP cuts back.
If the bill finally erases the Senate, the Republicans will only have a handful of votes in the House to lose during a final vote. And many already suggest that they will vote against this, notably the representative David Valadao of California, whose voters count strongly on Medicaid.
“I am not necessarily a” yes “,” said representative Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican who announced his retirement. Bacon added that he thought that the Senate version went too far to empty health care programs. “I think we will have trouble passing.”
An intraparty fight also broke out among the Republicans about the fate of green energy tax credits, that several GOP senators – including Murkowski, as well as Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst from Iowa – sought to preserve for several years. A group of Républicains de la Chambre had managed to put pressure in their version of the bill to accelerate the end of these credits.
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla, and the close advisor to Trump and benefactor before the two men fell a month ago, renewed his attacks against the legislation on Monday, calling it “completely crazy and destructive” for its price.
“It is obvious with the crazy expenses of this bill, which increases the ceiling of the debt by a record of five dollars of dollars that we live in a country with single party – Porky Pig Party !!” Musk wrote.
“It’s time for a new political party,” he added, “who actually cares.”
