The Republicans of the Senate vote during a dramatic Saturday on Saturday, they cleaned a key procedural step when they race to develop the US President Donald Trump's tax credit package, cuts and strengthened funds for deportation in July fourth.
Tally, 51-49, came after a turbulent night with the vice-chairman of JD Vance in Capitol to break a potential tie. The tense scenes took place in the chamber when the voting stopped, pulling for over three hours, when the senators stopped for negotiations and took private meetings from the floor. Ultimately, two Republicans opposed the application for continuing, joining all democrats.
A long work weekend will continue.
Republicans use their majority in Congress to repel the democratic opposition, but they encountered a series of political and political failures. Not all GOP legislators are on board a proposal to reduce expenditure on Medicaid, food vouchers and other programs as a way to cover the costs of extending Trump's tax breaks.
“It's time to get these recipes at the finish line,” said John Thune, leader of the majority of the Senate.
Before Roll Call, the White House published a statement of administrative policy, saying that he “strongly supports the transition” of the act. Trump himself was in his golf course in Virginia on Saturday, and GOP Senators published a visit to social media.
But during darkness, Trump fought against detention, threatening a campaign against one Republican, Senator Thom North Carolina, who announced that he could not support the law because of serious Medicaid cuts, which worries that he would leave a lot without health care in his condition. Tillis and Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky voted against.
Pressure grew from all sides – billionaire Elon Musk criticized the package as “completely crazy and destructive.”
After a very public war of words, he looks like a honeymoon for Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Eli Glasner from CBC spreads the unexpected bromank between the two most powerful characters in the world and, like a “large, beautiful bill”, eventually ripped him off.
The 940-page Act One Beautiful Bill was released shortly before midnight Friday, and senators should threaten all-night debate and corrections in the coming days. If the Senate is able to pass it, the law will return home to the last round of votes before it reaches the White House.
With a narrow republican most in the Chamber and Senate, leaders need almost every legislators on board. A new analysis from the non -party Congress Budget Office stated that the Senate Act would increase by 11.8 million people without health insurance in 2034.
The leader of the Democratic Senate Chuck Schumer from New York said that the Republicans presented the act “In the middle of the night” and are rushing to complete the bill before public opinion fully knows what is in this. He immediately forced to read the text full late Saturday in the Senate, which would take many hours.
Foreign Minister Anita Anand says power and politics that Ottawa “will ensure that the best result will be achieved for our country” in commercial negotiations in the USA, while diversifying the Canada supply chain.
Moment Make-Or Break for GOP
The weekend session can be the moment of Make-Or Break for the Trump party, which has invested a significant part of its political capital in its characteristic national politics plan. Trump forces Congress to end him and admonished “grandchildren” among GOP Handouts to resist. Legislation is an ambitious but complicated series of GOP priorities. At the root, this would permanently make many tax breaks on Trump's first term, which would otherwise expire until the end of the year if the Congress did not work, which caused a potential increase in the tax on Americans. The bill would add new interruptions, including without taxes on tips, and would oblige $ 350 billion for national security, including the Trump's mass deportation program.
But the intersections of Medicaid, food vouchers and green energy investments also cause opposition in the ranks of GOP.
Republicans rely on reductions in order to compensate for lost tax revenues, but some legislators say that the cuts are going too far, especially for people who receive health care through Medicaid. Meanwhile, conservatives worried about the debt of the nation, pressing on more steep cuts.
Canadian tax on digital services within the fire
Named “tax on revenge”, section 899 One Big Beautiful Bill Act calls on the imposition of a new deduction tax Investment revenues paid by American companies to investors living in countries The US government believes that they have unfair or discriminatory taxes.
Canadian tax on digital services (DST), which will go to companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb with tax on revenues from Canadian users, belongs to taxes that the US consider discriminating.
Over the past few weeks and months, Trump has presented many justifications for escalating the commercial dispute between Canada and the United States. On Friday he Zero on DST.
DST touches mega companies offering digital services – such as online advertising or shopping – and earn over $ 20 million in revenues from Canadian sources. Giant companies such as Amazon, Apple, Airbnb, Google, Meta and Uber will be taxed three percent of money that they earn from Canadian users and customers.
US President Donald Trump pointed out that he would increase government expenditure and loose some fiscal restrictions with a new expenditure project, called “a large beautiful bill” last week. Mark Ting, a partner with the foundation of wealth and a columnist for finance of a personal coast, says that the markets have already responded positively to the account.
The fee has been valid since last year, but the first payments are due from Monday. It is retrograde until 2022, so the companies will end with $ 2 billion of the bill for the end of July.
Revenues are one big advantage. The Parliamentary Budget Office estimated last year that the tax will bring over $ 7 billion in five years.