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President Donald TrumpThe push to pass her massive program in the Senate is suspended by the thread as GOP Barrel leaders to a critical vote this weekend that, at noon on Saturday, was still below the support to adopt.
The head of majority in the Senate, John Thune, had planned to plan a first critical vote on Saturday, but a key senator of the GOP warned that he would vote against the procedure in the package unless there are major changes – and several others selected are not sure of the way they will land.
Thune could not say on Saturday afternoon if he would have sufficient support for the GOP for the vote of critical procedure. He also did not answer a question of whether he planned to hold this vote.
“We will see in a few hours,” Thune told CNN.
Pressed by another journalist if he will have the votes, the Southern Dakota Republican said: “I hope yes.”
The warning shooting came from Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who is ready to re -elect next November and was one of the most vocal criticisms of Proposed medicaid cuts Used to help pay the tax and Trump expenses’ discount reductions.
Tillis said on Saturday that he would vote against the request in procedure and the final bill assuming that he does not change.
The loss of Tillis of the expected procedural vote on Saturday – which will be closely monitored by Trump – is a major blow for the leaders of the GOP of the Senate, who can only afford to lose only three republican votes to advance the bill.
Thune and GOP managers spent Months to build at this timeRun to write the bill as quickly as possible in order to ensure that Trump’s agenda is on his desk by July 4.
Just before midnight Friday, the Republicans of the Senate published the latest 940 pages version of the President’s domestic law on the domestic policy they wish to bring to the ground on Saturday afternoon. But no more changes could happen: an assistant from the Senate GOP warned that it was not the proposal for a final policy and talks continue with the GOP Holdouts. The Senate parliamentarian has not yet ruled on a certain language, including a controversial language on providers’ taxes, a kind of tax that states can impose to help pay the coverage of Medicaid.
If the bill fails its first procedural vote on Saturday, GOP leaders will have to reorganize the package, equivalent to a huge setback for Trump. And it is not only a question of this calendar of the day of independence: the leaders of the GOP fear that any delay in the success of the agenda of Trump embraces the criticisms of the party to seek more changes – which could lead their fragile coalition to collapse.
Already, the Hawk Franc fiscal senator, Rand Paul, plans to vote against him compared to the inclusion by the plan of an increase of 5 billions of dollars. And Tillis is not the only republican to oppose cuts offered in Medicaid. Sense. Lisa Murkowski, Jerry Moran and Susan Collins have all threatened to vote against the package because they worked with leadership to reduce these arrangements.
Senator Josh Hawley – who had raised concerns about the provisions of the MEDICAIDE package, which, according to him, was to close rural hospitals – said on Saturday that he would support the bill in a major victory for party leaders.
Collins, a key centrist vote, said on Saturday that she would vote in favor of the bill during the initial procedural vote, but was clearly supporting the initial vote, did not determine if it would support the final version.
“This procedural movement does not predict my vote on the final adoption. I will file a certain number of amendments,” said Collins, who describes the last text as “an improvement” but said that she wanted other changes. If these changes are not made, Collins warned that it could vote against the bill.
But the simple fact of restoring this funding from Medicaid may not be enough to win these votes on the prosecution – this could also cost him votes among the restaurants of the Gop Senate. Senator Ron Johnson explained how the bill should raise the budget deficit, and another tax hawk, Senator Mike Lee, suggested that he and Johnson with Senator Rick Scott could vote on Saturday as a block. Johnson said on Saturday morning in an interview with Fox News that he will not vote for the request to proceed at the moment “. Lee and Scott have not yet said how they will vote on the initial voting of key procedure on Saturday.
If everything goes as planned, the leaders of the Senate will win the 51 votes of the GOP to officially start to debate the agenda of Trump, then to create one of the legendary traditions of the room: a series of amendment votes 24 hours a day called votes a-rama. Democrats will use this session overnight to push a certain number of weaknesses in the GOP on the bill, in particular Medicaid and other queue programs.
The Senate could then vote on the last adoption in the middle of the night on Saturday or Sunday morning. And in case of success, the room would return in the middle of the week to take the bill with the hope that Trump will signal it at the White House on July 4.
One of the biggest obstacles for republicans is the race to rewrite the text in accordance with the rules of the complex budget of the Senate, which are governed by the non -partisan parliamentarian.
In recent days, the parliamentarian has ruled against the key provisions of the GOP – the so -called service providers, which helps states to finance their Medicaid programs, to certain provisions of an auction of the Government Specter. This obliges the GOP in the Senate to resume these provisions, if not Trump’s bill would be subject to a democratic filibusier.
The latest version of the Senate GOP includes changes to the suppliers’ tax policy, although it is not yet clear if it is acceptable to republican retained. The new language of the Senate also formalizes other compromises in recent days, such as the agreement between the secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and a group of New York Republicans who demanded greater tax alternatives for the taxes of states and premises, known as salt. This group has won a major increase in the amount of taxes that households can deduct – up to $ 40,000 compared to the current $ 10,000 – but only for five years, rather than the complete decade they had sought.
The Senate Republicans have also weakened key energy tax credits for wind and solar energy and have removed consumer credit to help buy electric vehicles by September.
Before the release of the night of the bill of the bill, several Republicans declared on Friday evening that they should see the final legislation before judging if they would open a debate on the measure of speech.
“I do not have the bill, how can I vote on something I don’t know,” said Johnson.
Several GOP senators have rejected concerns about speed in advance with the vote without final text in hand.
“We have discussed this thing Ad Nauseam,” said Ohio Bernie Moreno senator, saying the Republicans have gathered on this bill for “thousands” of hours so far this year. “The final tax has not been out. But we know where we are going. ”
Senator Eric Schmitt from Missouri added: “When you have legislation like this, you will have things that you have to work until the end.”
This story has been updated with additional developments.
Lauren Fox de CNN, Ella Nilsen, David Wright and Riane Lumer contributed to this report.