Republican leaders of the House of Representatives discarded plans to vote on the Senate Budget Plan on Wednesday in a setback to President Trump’s legislative agenda, a day after the commander in chief urged legislators to “close their eyes and get there.”
The speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Accumulated with uncompromising for about an hour before deciding that the Republican party would have to point out the vote for at least one so that legislators could solve their differentials.
“We are going to try to move this tomorrow. This has been a very constructive process,” said Johnson, 53, to journalists after winning the vote. “We are going to talk about perhaps go to the conference with the Senate or add an amendment.”
Trump, 78, had personally begged the uncompromising of the Republican party on Tuesday to bit the bullet and let the plan pass so that the leadership could roll and address their concerns later.
Johnson said he consulted Trump before removing the vote.
For weeks, the Republicans of the House of Representatives have disagreed with the Senate Republicans over how deep the expenditure on the Trump agenda package, which includes tax cuts, energy supply reform, border security and more.
Finally, the two cameras stopped in solving their differences, so the Senate decided to adopt a plan last week that included two different sets of instructions to appease both factions.
To obtain the approved budget resolution, both chambers must adopt it.
The adoption of the budget resolution is crucial for Republicans because it orders the reconciliation process of the Senate, which they need to approve the final bill of the Trump agenda that avoids the threshold of 60 votes necessary to break a democratic filibuster.
Trump and the republican leadership of the House of Representatives tried to assure the uncompromising that if they supported the plan and unlocked the reconciliation process, they would finally obtain the cuts of cuts of expenses they want.
“I had a very good meeting today with the House Speaker and some more conservative members, all the big people,” Trump summarized in Truth Social on Tuesday.
“I let them know that, I am for the large expenses of expenses! We are going to make reductions, hopefully exceed $ 1 billion dollars, all of which will be the only, large and beautiful ticket,” he added. “But we must approve the bill now.”
But the uncompromising of the Republican party seemed unvolved. They wanted to solve their spending differences first.
“The markets recover in response to the isolation of @realdonaldrump of China, so the political pressure to obtain” any “bill of taxes and approved expenses,” argued representative Chip Roy (R-Texas). “There is time to make a much more beautiful treatment in line with what our voters expect!”
The original Blueprint of the Chamber, which the lower camera adopted in February, established $ 1.5 billion in cuts assigned for committees, with the aim of shooting for at least $ 2 billion.
The Senate version presented the camera instructions and a separate set of instructions for the upper chamber to reduce only $ 4 billion. The moderate Republicans of the Senate vary only from including the camera instructions in the plan due to deep cuts.
There are also other great differences.
The Senate instructions prepared the scenario to make the 2017 tax and job cuts law permanent and creating enough space to fully carry out the target objective of any tips on tips, social security and the payment of overtime, as well as increase the deduction of state and local taxes (PALT). Some estimates stick to a price label of $ 5.3 billion.
But the camera instructions only allow up to $ 4.5 billion of an increase in the deficit for tax cuts, which means that Trump’s complete fiscal agenda may not be able to perform. The house plan did not say what tax cuts would not achieve it.
Another key difference is that the Senate provides $ 175 billion in new funds for border security, compared to the $ 200 billion of the camera. Technically, the Senate version allocates $ 350 billion in new border security funds, but attendees have told The Post that legislators only plan to use $ 175 billion of that.
In addition, the Senate version increased defense spending by $ 150 billion, while the camera increased by $ 100 billion.
Johnson is interested in obtaining the budget resolution on the finish line before the house breaks for its two -week Easter break.
He hopes to take the final agenda package to Trump’s desk for the day of the fallen.
