US Senate to begin voting on Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’

The US Senate began a marathon vote on a sprawling budget decisive to President Donald Trump’s business schedule, but the spending plan is suspended in the scale after weeks of risky negotiations.

Republicans – who control both the Congress rooms – are divided around the amount of social welfare programs to expand the scope of tax exemptions in the law of the great beautiful law.

The President’s Party is running to pass the legislation by the deadline imposed this week on the July 4.

If this procedure has surveyed the Senate, he will have to return to another vote to the House of Representatives, who approved its own version of the draft law last month with one vote.

Senate members set out in the Capitol halls on Monday, and set their way to the room hall to obtain many modifications, then return to their meeting rooms where they ignored grievances outside the viewpoint of the correspondents.

Senate members are currently arguing or against adding amendments to a bill of approximately 1000 pages in a process called “Pott-A-RAMA”, which may require up to 20 hours of discussion.

The session is expected to continue all night until Tuesday morning.

“It is clear that we still have some things,” said John Thun, the leader of the Senate, said on Monday.

Amending the MEDICAID discounts suggested recently by Senator in Florida Rick Scott may lead 20 million Americans lose health insurance coverageAccording to one estimate.

When asked about the report, Thun said there are “many analyzes there.”

“The thing [Scott’s] “Bill does not do so is that he does not apply to 2031. So I am not sure how to make the argument that he will expel any people from health insurance tomorrow.”

Democrats, who have repeatedly denounced the bill, especially to reduce the health insurance coverage of millions of poorest Americans, are expected to use all hours of the ten allocated discussion, while Republicans may not do so.

Senator Adam Chef, a Democrat in California and Trump’s long -term critic, described the draft law as “terrible”.

He told the BBC that he was not sure that the Senate will face the deadline of the Trump corridor by Friday, when America celebrates Independence Day, adding that, even if they did, “Who knows what is happening in the House of Representatives.”

Speaking at the White House on Monday, press secretary Caroline Levitte said that Trump was “confident” that the bill will be issued and still expects on his office on the deadline he imposed on himself.

Senator John Vitirman, a democratic in Pennsylvania, appeared in frustration on Monday afternoon, after any signs of a final draft appeared from the draft law.

“Oh my God, I just want to go home,” he said, adding that the extended negotiations and voting rounds caused his “full journey to the beach.”

“I don’t think it is really useful to put people here up to an evil hour,” he said.

On Sunday, Democrats used a political maneuver to stop the progress of the bill, and called on the Senate writers to read all 940 pages of the bill in a loud voice, a 16 -hour process.

This step followed weeks of public debate and the Senate is moving with a small difference in the budget bill in a vote 51-49 during the weekend.

Two Republicans to Democrats stood up to vote against the opening debate, under the pretext of further changes in legislation.

One of these Republicans, North Carolina, Tom Telese, Retire After this vote, he said that the legislation broke the promises made by Trump and the Republicans to the voters.

“There are many officials elected by pure raw policy who are not really giving the people who promised to represent them in the campaign’s path.”

The White House’s reaction was angry at the comments of Teles on Monday, when Levitte told the correspondents that the Senator was “just a mistake” and that “the president and the vast majority of Republicans who support this legislation are right.”

Another Republican who voted against the transfer of the bill was Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. He objected to the increase in debt and discounts in the Medicaid program, a health care program on which millions of Americans, the disabled, and the perpetrators depend.

On Monday, Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican in Alaska, sought to suppress concerns about the discounts followed by Medikid, saying, “We will be fine in this.”

When the draft law comes to a full Senate vote – it is expected either late Monday night or early on Tuesday morning – Republicans can only bear three splits to pass the bill.

The draft law will then return to the House of Representatives, where the leadership advised to fully vote on the Senate Bill early Wednesday morning.

While Republicans control the House of Representatives, they can lose a handful of votes. There are frustrations of the Senate version of the draft law between some Republicans in the House of Representatives, which may make another close vote.

The financial falcons of the Republican Freedom Assembly threatened to empty the Senate version due to budget disputes.

The group said in a post on social media on Monday that the Senate’s proposal adds more than 650 billion dollars to the national deficit.

“This is not a financial responsibility,” they said. “This is not what we agreed upon.”

Democrats in both rooms greatly objected to spending discounts and the proposed extension of tax phases.

Meanwhile, the Republican discussion focused on the amount of reduction in social welfare programs to extend $ 3.8 million (2.8 million pounds) in Trump’s tax exemptions.

Suggested cuts can attract approximately 12 million Americans of their health insurance coverage and add $ 3.3 trillion (2.4 tution) of debt, according to the Congress Budget Office, a non -partisan federal agency.

The issuance of a draft law on the Senate members will contain the tax cuts that Trump carried out its campaign, such as a tax discount on the advantages of social security, and the elimination of taxes on additional work and advice.

The draft law also declares 5 meters in the new borrowing, which will add to the US debt load – a step that contradicts what many conservatives fell and angry with Trump Musk for one time.

Musk launched social media positions on Monday, pledging to finance competitors to any governor who votes in favor of the bill and setting up an alternative political party.

“If this crazy spending law passes, the American Party will be formed the next day,” he wrote on X.

“Our country needs an alternative to the Democratic Republican Republican color so that people already have a voice.”

The national debt is currently sitting at 36 trillion dollars, according to the Treasury.

Treasury Secretary Scott Beesente urged Congress to address the debt limit by mid -July and beware if they did not do so. The United States may be unable to pay its bills early in August.

(With additional reports from Bernd Debusmann JR at the White House)