Trump Live Updates: Home Republicans Divided into domestic policy law

There were representatives of Chip Roy, the congress member in Texas, who insisted that the law template Medicaid contained steep cuts. And there was representative Andrew Garbarino, the New Yorker, who committed to an invoice to reduce the cover of Medicaid for his voters.

The representative Nick Lalota from New York, who has explained that the rollback from the bidding era, which is clean energy tax credits, goes too far. The representative Andy Harris from Maryland, who asked the Republican leaders, was fully lifted these tax benefits.

The tableau of the participants, who were charged by Mr. Johnson at the end of last week, when he tried to collect support for what Mr. Trump described as a “large, beautiful draft law”, encapsulated the precarious change of change with which the speaker is confronted when he creates the extensive tax and budget legislation by the house. The political groups are very different, competing priorities for the most important parts of the domestic politics package and include the different ideological, political and regional interests inside the GOP

For each block with a claim that must be met before its members agree to the measure to support the measure, another demands the opposite.

And with his tiny control margins, Mr. Johnson can afford to lose only three Republicans on the bill, which is rejected by Democrats uniformly when all members are present and vote. The situation explains why the legislation has stalled in a key committee last week, how difficult it will be for the Republicans to push it through the house in good time in order to adhere to a self-imposed period for the day of remembrance, and why it is exposed to the Senate in front of an unknown fate.

“We have had a good rehearsal of the conference in my conference room here in the past few hours,” said Johnson after his meeting with Republican at the end of last week. “Not everyone will look forward to every big destination in an invoice, but everyone can be satisfied and we are very, very close to it.”

In view of the depth of disagreement between the decisive constituencies, this remains to be seen.

Conservatives that push for more cuts

The fiscal Hawks met first and defeated the draft law on Friday in the critical household committee and blocked the legislation to achieve a coordination of the House Floor. Mr. Roy and three other Republicans called for changes to the law and then allowed it to advance on Sunday evening after GOP leaders had assured them that the law was changed to solve their concerns.

Their main complaint was that the package did not make enough structural changes to federal programs in order to significantly reduce the deficit. They urged themselves to accelerate the new work requirements for Medicaid recipients who would not come into force until 2029 after the next presidential elections. They were also dismayed that the legislation, while it would limit most of the large tax credits for clean energy that are contained in the Inflation Reducation Act of the Biden era, would not all eliminate everyone.

These concerns are widespread by the most conservative members of the House GOP conference, which have a deep ideological dislike of federal deficits, which contradict both Mr. Trump's view and the prevailing approach of the rest of their party.

A group of approximately three dozen Republicans -many in the ultra -conservative House Freedom Caucus, but also others -who see themselves as fiscal falcons, have strategies on a group text and the meeting in the Capitol Hill home. Most of them signed a letter at the beginning of this year that they would not vote for a legislative template that would contribute to the federal deficit.

The legislation currently written would add around 3.3 trillion dollars to the deficit in the next decade, according to the committee for a responsible federal budget, an impartial group that calls for lower deficits.

The representative Eric Burlison from Missouri said that he was proud of the group last month when she staged an uprising, forced Mr. Johnson to delay a vote on the Budget blueprint in which the contours of the law were adopted. This prompted officials from the White House and the Senate top republican to undertake that their concerns would be addressed later in the process.

At that time, Mr. Roy said in a long statement that these promises were included “at least 1 trillion US dollars of real reductions in the mandatory expenditure” – the part of the federal financing that is not checked by congress, most of which are entitled to claim programs for poor, older people, veterans and others. He also said that the President had committed to fully lifted the harmful 'green fraud waste in the law on inflation reduction and to do “Medicaid reforms”.

“It was a victory for this group and I think it was monumental,” said Burlison. “The question is, will it deal with how much will we actually get? And at the moment we are in the middle of.”

These goals run exactly, which another crucial group – more moderate legislators from politically competitive districts – have said they want.

Swing distributor against Medicaida cuts

While the Republican Party has gone to the right in recent years, it is largely owes her majority in the house to victories in politically competitive districts in California and New York, two blue states in which many voters rely on programs such as Medicaid.

This has a number of the most politically endangered Republicans of the house – a block that party leaders are usually postponed to preserve their majority – main actors in the debate about Medicaid, perhaps the biggest climbing point in legislation.

Members of this group often demand spending cuts, but do not share the ideological opposition to deficits of their more conservative colleagues. They usually avoid major reductions to social programs that influence their voters and fear that they could lose their seats.

In their claim that the Republican leaders ultimately dropped two of the most aggressive options that they had considered to reduce the Medicaid costs.

“We had a few comments from people who said that this seems too far to be able to go,” said representative Brett Guthrie von Kentucky, the chairman of the energy and trade committee.

The Congress's household office estimated that, as written, 8.6 million more Americans are not insured at the end of a decade and, at the same time, the federal expenditure for health care is reduced by more than 700 billion US dollars during this period.

Republicans are struggling to obtain clean energy tax deletions

Some of the same politically endangered legislators reject the part of the draft law, which would reject most major tax credits for Clean -Energy projects as part of the law on inflation reduction of 2022, many of which were expected to take a decade.

The representative Juan Ciscomani from Arizona, who was one of the most valued recruits of the former speaker Kevin McCarthy and thrown a democratic seat in 2022, has developed as an unlikely supporter of some of the statutory tax credits. The breaks were a blessing in his district based in Tucson, in which Lucid Motors, a large American electric vehicle company, expanded its factory, which expected to harvest the rewards of the law.

“We have to be sure that current and future energy investments meet the country's growing demand for power and protect our voters from higher energy costs,” said Ciscomani in a joint explanation with 13 other Republicans in the house.

Conservatives like Mr. Roy are then dissatisfied with Mr. Ciscomani.

But while Mr. Ciscomani and his colleagues believe that the writers of the law went too far to target the provisions, Mr. Roy and his ILK believe that they did not go far enough. This was one of the main reasons why the Texas Republicans and three other conservative legislators in the household committee blocked legislation on Friday.

“When I said my voters, I would fight against IRA or the solar and battery facilities throughout the country in Texas Hill,” he wrote hours after derailing his party, “I meant it.”

Salt crusaders from high tax states

One of the greatest outstanding obstacles for the Republicans of Republicans is how legislation deals with state and local taxes.

Representatives of High Stax-Stax-New York, California and New Jersey have a critical campaign with their leaders against what they say, which has made some of them that contributed to their party to win back the majority.

The Republicans of the Tax Act passed in 2017 submitted a limit for the amount of state and local taxes that Americans can write off on their federal returns, and the legislative proposal now discussed would triple and bring the upper limit to $ 30,000. But Republicans from high -tax states urge that this upper limit essentially to be lifted and said they were ready to dismantle the invoice if this is not fulfilled.

They say that their party endangers that she loses her majority if she does not accept her demands.

“New York is a donor state that receives less money than sends it to the federal government in tax revenue,” said representative Mike Lawler from New York. “Republicans from Blue States such as New York, California and New Jersey were significantly involved in delivering their majority in the 119th Congress to the Republican Party.”

However, the conservatives have sentenced to raise the upper limit and argue that it is an expensive handout to wealthy residents of the Blue countries. A relatively modest change, such as doubling the upper limit for married couples, has an estimated price of 230 billion US dollars over a decade.

“I am sure when the congress with the subsidization of high tax blue states begins to learn to learn and stop taxes,” wrote Mr. Roy sarcastic on social media.

He added: “We are 37 trillion debts. Pound of sand.”

Produced by Martín González Gómez.