US vice -president JD Vance on Tuesday cast the tie braking vote after the marathon session of debate and amendment to push the tax of President Donald Trump and spend the bill through the Senate.
Large -scale packages, “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” called for tax breaks and increased defense spending and immigration enforcement, which would be offset by deduction for health care and other social services.
Three Republican Senator, Thom Tilis of Northern Carolina, Susan Colins of Main and Rand Paul of Kentaki, joined all Democrats in voting against Bill, left Mangal’s vote Tally at 50–50.
What is in the bill?
For the Congress Budget Office (CBO), the tax deduction involves $ 4.5 trillion in the bill, making Trump’s 2017 tax rate permanent from his first term, while there is no tax on tips, overtime and social security.
So allocation of $ 150 billion for defense, and $ 175 billion for border security.
Among the more controversial aspects, there are changes in the Medicade, which is government subsidized health care for low -income groups. Bills call for strict access requirements, and will apply $ 1.2 trillion in the program cuts.
The CBO has speculated that the change in the medicade means that 12 million people will loose access to health insurance in the next decade.
what comes next?
The bill will now go to the House of Representatives for the last route, it is expected to be a debate on Wednesday. Trump has demanded the signing of the bill by July 4, US Independence Day holiday.
The House had already approved the first edition of the bill. However, as the Senate added amendments, the bill will have to pass the House again before it is signed in the law.
House speaker Mike Johnson said the Senate vote on Tuesday that “House Republican is preparing jobs and puts a big beautiful bill on President Trump’s desk for Independence Day.”
Passing the bill in the Republican-controlled House, havor, is far from guarantee, with disagreement between fiscal huxes related to deficit effects and opposed to medicade cuts.
CBO estimates that the bill will add $ 3.3 trillion to the National Deb.
Big, beautiful – and unpopular
Voting suggests that the bill is unpopular, in which 23% are supporting it, and 42% in protest, according to the Washington Post/Ipsos Pol, is done in June.
The Senate minority leader Chak Shumar said, “Today, the Senate Republican betrayed the American people and covered the Senate in the Urtan Shem.” “This vote wants to bother Republican for the coming years.”
“In a fur Swup, Republican passed the biggest tax break for billionaires so far- to remove health care for millions of people and paid food from the mouths of hungry children,” Shumar said.
Elon Musk, a former billionaire associate of the billionaire, severely criticized the bill, and on Monday posted on his X social media platform that any Congress member had voted for the bill “Next year lost his primary if it’s the last thing I do.” During the 2024 election, Musk spent a few $ 290 billion supporting Trump and other Republican candidates.
Edited by: Jennifer Camino Gonzalez
