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There was a rope struggle between the Republicans of the Chamber and the Senate on how to manage the bill to extend Trump’s tax reductions for the wealthy. The Senate Republicans wanted to divide priorities into several bills. President Mike Johnson and Trump won and forced a bill in the Senate.
The Senate took control of the Bill of the Chamber and rewritten huge songs.
The biggest change was that the Senate Republicans made the Medicaid cuts even more extreme.
Senator Thom Tillis (R-N-NC) has essentially left the Senate on Medicaid changes, and even if the Senate is likely to pass something today or tomorrow, this does not mean that there is a gentle navigation and a blue sky to come.
In fact, the opposite seems to be true.
Jake Sherman from Punchbowl News published on X:
NEW – Johnson earlier “I prevailed on my colleagues from the Senate to please, please, please, put it as close to the product of the room as possible, I was very consistent from the start.” Johnson is still looking for changes in the Senate bill to bring him closer to the Chamber.
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The Senate bill is on the ground. The people of the Senate say that they do not modify the bill significantly. Johnson is still looking for major hours of hours before the final passage.
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There is so much skepticism in the House Republican Conference at the moment that the Chamber can adopt the Bill of Reconciliation this week. I’m not saying they won’t. But mods, preservatives, leadership, etc. Everyone thinks it will be extraordinarily difficult.
The House bill was adopted only by a single vote, so if one of the dozens of moderates decides to abandon it, the bill flows. What the republicans of the Chamber finally learned is that a person defection of Trump will be targeted, but a group of defectors gives them strength in number.