The Chamber of Representatives approved a budget framework that adopts the Senate amendments on April 10, allowing Republican legislators to advance with the budget reconciliation process in accordance with the priorities of President Donald Trump.
“It was a great step, because this will allow us to move forward, that our committees wrote the” great bill “,” he told the president of the house Mike Johnson (r-), he told journalists after the vote.
The motion approved by a vote of 216-214. No Democrat voted in favor. The vote was originally scheduled for April 9, but some hard -line Republicans refused to support the bill without additional expense cuts. Most of the stakes ended up voting, apart from the representative Thomas Massie (Ky.) And Representative Victoria Spartz (Ind.), After Johnson and the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune (Rs.d.), they agreed to reduce $ 1.5 trillion on expenses.
“I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues, but the instructions we voted today still prepare us for the greatest increase in deficit in the history of our Republic, [and] Opening a “Pandora” box changing the accounting rules for hiding -la, “wrote Spartz on social media.
Framework would allow for an additional amount of $ 5.8 trillion to deficit up to 2034, but requires only $ 4 billion in reduction of gross deficit to compensate, according to the non -partisan committee for a responsible federal budget (CRFB).
“This budget establishes the scenario for increasing the highest deficit in history,” said Maya Macguineas, President of CRFB, in a statement.
The measure also expands the 2017 tax cuts to be expired, which Johnson said that the largest tax hike in history would have been effectively.
As legislators are now seeking to draft their budget, Johnson said that the Senate and the Chamber Republicans will collaborate. He also exposed his priorities: border safety, reduction of regulations, military preparation, energy and reducing the costs of life.
Democrats were critical of the cuts provided for in the budget, such as Medicaid and other health and social programs. Proponents of renewable energy have also aroused concerns about the possible loss of incentives of the project of the Inflation Reduction Law of 2022.
“The budget resolution that has passed the house today will launch some of the most extreme cuts in healthcare, nutritional assistance and things that matter to the everyday Americans in the almost 250-year history of our nation,” the leader of the House Minorities, Hakem Jeffries (DN.Y.), told the journalists. “It is a riot.”
