Washington – That of the Senate Budget resolutionHe has been endorsed by President Trump and is key to expanding his tax cuts, he is opposed to various Chamber Republicans who say he does not reduce sufficient spending.
The House must adopt the past resolution of the Senate to advance the agenda of the President and the GOP leaders hoped to make this vote this week. But almost a dozen Chamber Republicans say they are opposed to resolution or have a great deal of concern about the $ 1.5 trillion gap between chamber and Senate versions. Speaker Mike Johnson’s slim Most of the GOP means that it can be allowed to lose the support of only three Republicans.
The President met on Tuesday with the republican repercussions, as Johnson tries to fight them to support the 70-page resolution, the model for implementing the security, defense, energy and security prosecutor of Mr. Trump’s security. Although Johnson has been able to overcome the opposition pockets in the past, this time, the Louisiana Republican faces objections from various corners of the GOP conference.
Johnson said he thought Mr. Trump helped change his mind. “The president was of great help and he dedicated himself. We had many members to the questions they were answered,” said the chamber speaker after the white house meeting, adding that they “move a lot.”
But several stakes said they did not attend the meeting, or were not invited.
Casa leaders are not ruled out during the weekend if they cannot drive the resolution through the lower chamber this week. Congress is expected to be in the recession the following two weeks.
The President approved the budget resolution adopted by the Senate Monday night, saying in a position To the social truth that includes all the “elements we need to secure the border, promulgate cuts of historical expenses and make tax cuts permanent”.
“There is no better time than now to make this agreement!” Trump continued, adding that “the house must overcome this budget resolution and quickly.”
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He continued to push the holdings in a Tuesday post saying, “I am for significant expense cuts! We are going to reduce, we hope to exceed $ 1 trillion.”
But many of the stakes want to ensure that there will be much more than 1 trillion in cuts.
The budget plan is the first step in the reconciliation process, which allows the congress to pass the 60 votes threshold to advance in the greater legislation of the Senate.
The Senate adopted the Commitment Resolution on Saturday after Republicans in the House and the Senate had advanced in their own budget models earlier this year. But both chambers must adopt identical budget resolutions to start the broader reconciliation process, which caused GOP leaders to join the forward in recent weeks.
However, the resolution does not address disagreements on where and how to make substantial spending cuts, promoting a clash below.
In the resolution, the Senate established relatively low minimum flats for expenses cuts for various committees, about $ 4 billion, although they expect to find much more. At the same time, it allows house plans to cut at least 1.5 trillion dollars on expenses. Some Chamber Republicans argue that expense cuts are not deep enough.
The Senate Plan is based on a budget score method known as “current policy”, which means that current policies continue to cost no cost. Under this reference line, the $ 3.8 trillion that would cost Trump’s tax cuts would not be counted.
But tax cuts were originally approved through the score of the “current law”, which deals with the renewal of expired policies as new legislation. The resolution of the Chamber’s budget was based on the reference line of the current law and acknowledges that continuing the tax cuts It will cost 3.8 trillion dollars. It Trump Trums 2017 It is expected to expire this year and if they are not expanded, tax It will go up to many files.
Republican leaders of the House are still moving forward with the Senate Plan, meeting with skeptical Republicans, while the White House seeks to apply its own pressure.
Johnson met with the Freedom Caucus House on Monday night, after the president of the conservative group, the representative Andy Harris de Maryland, argued that the chamber would move to the president’s agenda without the budget resolution.
“You have to do it at some point in the future. It doesn’t have to be right now,” Harris said about the adoption of the resolution.
Texas’s Republican Republican representative also advised the vote this week.
“They literally produced a budget that will have deficits,” Roy said on Tuesday. “That’s what they did. I didn’t come here to increase the deficits. The Senate apparently did.”
The leader of most of the house, Steve Scalise, acknowledged obstacles at the GOP’s leadership press conference on Tuesday morning, saying “no one said it would be easy.” But the Louisiana Republican added that “our commitment is firm to do it.”
“There are members who have questions: this is not a surprise,” said Scalise. “Our job is to continue answering these questions as we advance the ball. But it is essential that we move on this agenda, that we do not delay, because passing the budget does not finish the process, it begins the process of reconciliation.”
Johnson emphasized that “the budget resolution is not the law”, saying that “all that it does is that it allows us to continue the process, to begin drafting the actual legislation that it really has, and this is the great bill”.
The speaker said that the adoption of the resolution simply “allows us to get out of the margin and go out on the field and start this game.”
“It’s the starting shot,” he added.
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