The megap appropriate seeks to cement Trump’s promises to extend The tax exemptions of his first mandate (2017-2021) and include new sales, but this week’s discussions in several committees of the House of Representatives evidenced The reluctance of several Republicans Key to make this progress until you reach plenary.
Legislators celebrated marathon sessions for advance the appointed “great and beautiful bill” and achieve its approval before the lower house and the Senate prior to the day of the fallen, on May 26, with the intention of reaching the Oval Office before the symbolic July 4, the day of American independence.
But at a meeting this Friday of the Lower House Budget Committee, five representatives of the Republican conservative wing They voted against because, they said, this would increase the budget deficit.
“We are issuing checks that we cannot charge and our sonS are going to pay the consequences“, Said Chip Roy, one of those who turned their backs on the proposal.
“This bill is deeply insufficient; It does not comply with what we say with respect to deficits, ”he said.
The refusal of the five Republicans – of three that were needed to delay project progress – It is seen as an unusual rebellion between the ranks of the Republican party to Trump’s pressures.
“Republicans must join after “the great and beautiful bill‘”, He wrote hours before Trump in his social network, Truth Social.
The president, who has just closed a four -day tour of the Middle Easthe insisted that this proposal “not only cuts taxes to all Americans, but will also leave without (the medical plan) Medicaid millions of undocumented immigrants with the intention of protecting it For those who really need it. ”
Without the approval of the Budget Committee, the megaproject It could be stagnant in that commission.
The megap appropriate too Includes a controversial 5 % tax on remittances sent outside the countrythat this Friday caused new criticisms of the government of the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, which He considers it “an injustice” and an “discriminatory” action that would affect Mexican migrants in the US
Donald J. Trump Truth Social 05.16.25 10:07 am est
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