- Procedural voting sets the scene to the debate overnight.
- Changes made to Medicaid, Government and Local Tax Orders.
- Non -Partisan Group says Bill would add $ 4 trillion to debt.
Washington: The US Senate’s advanced President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spent bill on Saturday, with billionaire Elon Musk, who warned the draft of the legislation would “destroy millions of jobs” and “cause huge strategic harm” to the United States.
Musk threw the plan as “completely crazy and destructive” and said it gave subsidies to outdated industries while undermining the future.
His comments came after an important procedural vote adopted 51-49 and raised the odds that legislators will be able to adopt Trump’s “large, beautiful bill” in the coming days, which is his greatest legislative priority.
The procedural vote that would start the debate on the 940-page megaBill to finance Trump’s supreme immigration, border, tax and military priorities, began after hours of delay.
Then it remained open in more than three hours of standstill when three Republican Senators – Thom Tillis, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul – joined Democrats to oppose the legislation. Three others – Senators Rick Scott, Mike Lee and Cynthia Lummis – negotiated with Republican leaders at night hoping to secure major cuts.
In the end, Wisconsin -senator Johnson turned his non -voice to yes, leaving only Paul and Tillis opposite among Republicans.
Trump monitored the vote from the Oval Office late at night, a senior official said in the White House.
MegaBill would extend the tax cuts of 2017 that were Trump’s most important regulatory performance in his first period as president, cut other taxes and increase the cost of military and border security.
Non-Partisan analysts estimate that a version of Trump’s tax and utility bill would add trillion to the $ 36.2 trillion US government debt.
Democrats violently opposed the bill and said that its tax -made elements would disproportionately benefit the wealthy at the expense of social programs that Americans with lower income are dependent on.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, demanded that the bill be read aloud before the debate could begin and said the Senate Republicans shrinked to adopt a “radical bill”.
“If the Senate Republicans do not tell the American people what is in this bill, Democrats will force this chamber to read it from start to finish,” the New York Democrat said.
