The Washington-Republican-led parliament returned to Monday for a week and returned to the party’s plan to pass the agenda of Donald Trump’s trillion dollars.
The House of Representatives Mike Johnson, R-LA. Before Easter, he set a goal of passing legislation through home in April, which had been done for three weeks for three weeks. And the bill will go to the Senate. The Senate has another idea about how to proceed.
The Republican Party controls the narrow house of 218-213 and the majority of the Senate of 53-47. They can use the budget “adjustment” process to bypass 60 votes in the Senate and remove the Democratic Party from the equation.
Johnson said in a joint statement with the Republican Republican Leaders and Committee Chairman on Monday, “Our focus is now returning to provide President Trump’s first American agenda.” “This house decided to keep our borders, keep taxes low for our families and professions, raise the economy, restore the US energy dominance, regain peace through power, and send the president to the president, who should be more efficient and responsible for the US people.”
There are four obstacles they faced.
Medicide cut
Republicans say they want to find a trillion dollar to spend at least some costs of this bill. The budget resolution of the House of Representatives, which was adopted last month, must find $ 880 billion by the Energy and Commercial Commission. And that’s where the situation becomes difficult.
The council budget office, the official non -party score owner, found that if Medicare and Medicaid are excluded, the panel will supervise a total of $ 55.1 billion.
In other words, it is mathematically impossible for the Republican to meet his budget goals without cutting Medicare or Medicaid. GOP leaders and Rank & File members said that some Medicaid cuts were on the table, and Johnson frame it with efforts to reduce the waste and morale of this program.
The ghosts of Medicaid Cuts warned that the Democratic Party would be violent opposition, and it would harm a hospital that depends on the low -income people and the elderly and funding. If you pursue hundreds of millions of dollars by reducing Medicide, the Swing District Republican Won was politically unstable. However, if you give up these cuts, the budget blueprint promised a steep expenditure reduction, so it will make you angry with the hard -line conservatives voted on the budget blueprint to start the process.
A star of 4.6 trillion dollars?
Perhaps the largest obstacle than the package is a tank dollar with red ink. According to the parliamentary budget office, the extension of Trump’s 2017 tax reduction will take $ 4.6 trillion in 10 years. And it is before dealing with Trump’s pursuit, such as the termination of taxes and overtime pay.
To solve the problem, the Republican Party is considering a wide range of accounting changes to hide the impact of deficit, which is known as the “current policy standard” instead of the current legal standards, which will treat Trump’s tax reduction permanently $ 0. The Democratic Party is preparing to fight the parliament, and the in -house judgment supervises the reconciliation process.
Senator Brian Schatz of D-HAWAII called this “magic asteron.”
“They are trapped between rocks and difficult places. They know that cutting Medicaid will be politically fatal, but they are also trying to operate this number.” “And the only way to operate this number without cutting Medicaid is for Bulls.”
Details of housing
Republicans and Senators of the House of Representatives are also divided forward to develop Trump’s policy agenda.
The two chambers adopted a conflicting budget resolution with Trump with the house version. On Monday, the House of Representatives GOP leaders asked the Senate to adopt the House of Representatives. But Republican Senators are waiting for the House of Representatives to deliver the actual bill. Despite the majority of the thin house, the Senate has no atmosphere to indicate the result.
RN.C. Senator Thom Tillis said that the two chambers would have to pass another bill and solve them later.
“The House of Representatives must work for the House of Representatives to vote for the baseline,” Tillis said. “And we must go to the similarity of meetings or meetings and find out how to agree with the two chambers.”
Debt limit
Another major problem is that the upcoming deadline is the deadline for disrupting the risk of US debt limit or debt.
The “X Date”, which Congress will act, is expected to someday this year, but the Treasury may not know forever until the tax on April 15.
The budget plan for the House of Representatives required an increase of $ 4 trillion in the upper limit of debt, but it must pass the reconciliation bill to formalize. In other words, before the deadline, the bill should be sent to Trump’s desk or at risk of economic disasters. If there is not enough time, the debt limit may be slaughtered and delivered separately.
But if you keep it in the bill as part of your efforts to avoid negotiations with the Democratic Party, you may need to provide significant expenditures to persuade the GOP hard liner.
