- The procedural vote features a debate overnight.
- Changes made to the tax provisions of Medicaid, state and local.
- A non -partisan group says that Bill would add 4 billions of dollars to debt.
Washington: The US Senate has advanced the bill on tax and expenses of President Donald Trump on Saturday, the billionaire Elon Musk warning that the bill “would destroy millions of jobs” and “would cause immense strategic damage” in the United States.
Musk criticized the plan as “totally crazy and destructive”, saying that he had given subsidies to the obsolete industries while undergoing those of the future.
His remarks intervened after a key procedural vote was adopted from 51 to 49 years, increasing the chances that legislators can adopt the “big and beautiful bill” of Trump in the coming days, which is his main legislative priority.
The procedural vote, which would begin to discuss the 940 -page megabill to finance the main priorities of Trump, border, tax cup and military, began after hours behind.
He then remained open for more than three hours of the judgment while three republican senators – Thom Tillis, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul – joined the Democrats to oppose the legislation. Three others – Senators Rick Scott, Mike Lee and Cynthia Lummis – negotiated with republican leaders in the hope of obtaining greater expenditure reductions.
In the end, the senator of Wisconsin Johnson launched his vote without yes, leaving only Paul and Tillis opposed to the Republicans.
Trump was watching the oval office vote late at night, said a senior White House official.
The Megabill would extend the 2017 tax reductions which were the main legislative achievements of Trump during its first mandate as president, reduced other taxes and stimulate expenses for military and border security.
Non -partisan analysts believe that a version of the Trump Tax Cup and expenses would add billions of Billions to the US government debt of $ 36.2 billion.
The Democrats fiercely opposed the bill, claiming that its tax cutting elements would benefit in a disproportionate manner to the rich to the detriment of the social programs on which the low -income Americans count.
Chuck Schumer, the best Democrat in the Senate, demanded that the bill be read aloud before the debate can begin, saying that the Senate republicans rushed to adopt a “radical bill”.
“If the Senate republicans will not say to the American people what is in this bill, the Democrats will force this Chamber to read it from start to finish,” said the New York Democrat.
