Washington (AP) – The big bill of President Donald Trump in Congress would be unleashed Billions of reductions in taxes and expenses of oblique bars, but also of 2.4 billions of deficits during the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance, increasing the political issues of the internal priority signature of the GOP.
The head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, and other Democrats in the Senate held a press conference on Wednesday. Look in our video player above.
The republican leaders of the Congress, determined to build the scanning package, had much to say after the publication of the analysis on Wednesday by the budget office of the non-partisan congress. GOP senators were heading for an afternoon meeting with Trump in the White House.
But the Democrats who work to stop the march of Trump One Big Beautiful Bill Act piled up with relentless opposition.
“In the words of Elon Musk, this bill is a” disgusting abomination “,” said the Brendan Boyle representative of Pennsylvania, the best democrat of the Chamber’s Budget Committee, reviving the billionaire of the former aid of Trump helps on the package.
The analysis arrives at a crucial moment while Trump pushes the congress, where the Republicans have majority control, to send the final product to his office to become law by July 4. The Chamber adopted the bill last month by a single vote, but it now crosses the Senate, where the Republicans want a number of significant changes.
And politics is only intensifying.
After Musk blinded the congress with his total assault against the bill this week, the president of the Mike Johnson room rushed to do control of the damage.
The president of the GOP said that he had called Musk to discuss the criticisms of Tuesday evening, but had not heard. Musk threatened to use his political apparatus to attack Republicans in mid-term elections.
“I hope it happens,” said Johnson, R-La., Said journalists.
A few hours later, Musk, whose commercial interests could be affected by declines on green energy in the bill, implored the voters to call their representatives and the senators: “The bankruptcy of America is not ok!” He wrote on social networks, “Kill the Bill”
Tax alternatives, but also reduce health care
The work of the CBO, which for decades was the official guardian of the legislation at the Congress, is closely monitored by the legislators and others seeking to understand the budget impacts of the extended package of more than 1,000 pages.
In addition to 3.75 billions of dollars to prolong the tax lounges of 2017 and add the new ones to which Trump campaigned, in particular no tax on advice, he found that the package would reduce federal expenses of almost 1.3 billion of dollars, largely thanks to discounts offered to Medicaid and declines of green energy initiatives.
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Some 7.8 million people would no longer have health insurance with Medicaid changes, including 5.2 million compared to the new work requirements proposed on valid adults up to 65 years, to a few exceptions, according to the analysis.
As part of these Medicaid changes, 1.4 million people who are in the United States without legal status in health programs funded by the State would no longer have coverage. In addition, some 400,000 would lose the coverage of the end of a medical supplier tax that the main Republicans, including Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, wish to stay in place so that rural hospitals can continue to pay their bills.
Republicans argue that their proposals aim to strengthen Medicaid and other programs by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. They want federal funding to be rendered to those who need health care and other services most, often citing women and children.
But the Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said these statements were false and are simply part of the long -standing GOP efforts to repeal and replace the affordable, or Obamacare law, because most of the states have expanded Medicaid to serve more people in the program.
“They just want to strangle health care,” said Schumer.
In addition, the CBO had previously estimated that nearly 4 million less people would have food coupons each month due to the changes proposed by the legislation on the additional nutritional aid program, known as the SNAP. Some would see their advantages reduced by $ 15 by 2034, said the CBO.
The Republicans criticize the CBO
Before the Liberation of the CBO, the leaders of the White House and the Republicans criticized the Budget Office in a preemptive campaign designed to sow doubt in its conclusions.
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, said that the CBO was “badly stained” because it had underestimated the potential growth in the first cycle of Trump tax alternatives in 2017. The CBO said that the receipts were 1.5 billion of dollars, 5.6% higher than expected, largely due to the “Rafale of the Pande COVID-19 in 2021.
The director of the White House budget, Russ Vought, said that when you adapt to the “current policy”, which means that counting some $ 4.5 billions in existing tax loss which are simply extended for the next decade, the global package does not actually accumulate on the deficit. He argued that single spending reductions, in fact, help reduce deficits by $ 1.4 billion in the decade.
But Democrats and even some Republicans call this “current policy” that accounts moves a gadget, but this is the approach that the Senate republicans intend to use when consideration of the package to try to show that this does not add to the deficits of the nation. Vought argued that the CBO is the one that uses a “gadget” by counting the costs of pursuing these tax alternatives which would expire otherwise.
“Russ is right,” said Johnson, president of the room on social networks. “Our Big Beautiful Bill will reduce the deficit while delivering the mandate given to us by the American people. Let’s do it! “
Pressure secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, also suggested that CBO employees were biased, even if some budget workers are faced with strict ethical rules – including restrictions on campaign donations and political activity – to ensure objectivity and impartiality.
What is at stake
The income tax alternatives of individuals who had been approved during Trump’s first mandate to the White House will expire in December if the Congress does not act, in what the Republicans plan to be an increase in massive tax on many American households.
The package also includes a massive accumulation of $ 350 billion for border security, deportations and national security which is at the heart of the GOP agenda, as well as an increase of 4 dollars of the debt of 36 billion dollars in the country, which, according to the Treasury Department, needs this summer to pay the invoices of the country.
CBO targets impartiality
Now in its 50th year, the CBO was created by law after the Congress sought to assert its control, as indicated in the Constitution, during the budgetary process.
Composed by some 275 economists, analysts and other employees, the CBO says that it seeks to provide the congress with objective and impartial information on budgetary and economic problems.
Its current director, Phillip Swagel, a former head of the Treasury of the Republican President George W. Bush, was renewed in a four -year term in 2023.
The writers of the associated press Kevin Freking and Joey Cappelletti contributed to this report.