House Republicans Start Marathon hearing to push Trump's budget bill

Washington (AP) – tax relief count more than 5 trillion dollars – but also considerable reductions in Medicaid Health CareFood marks for the elderly and Green energy strategies To combat climate change – there are sharp debate on Tuesday, while the Republicans of the Republicans through marathon lists on theirs “Big, beautiful bill.”

It is still a long night ahead of us. Republicans are working to advance President Donald Trump Signature Legislative package through a glove of committees about the increasing opposition of Democrats, interest groups and even some careful Republicans themselves.

From the beginning, a meeting was immediately interrupted by demonstrators, which screamed, which the top democrat of the committee described as “cruel” coil for Medicaid.

“People feel very strong because they know that they lose their health care,” said Rep. Frank Pallone, Dn.J., in Energy & Commerce Committee.

And it went for hours.

It is the greatest political and legislative debate for the Republican who has been leading Congress since Trump's first term and a career -related collision over the nation's priorities that come with Trump's trade war and other uncertainties at a time of economic discomfort.

Trumpf, Speak in a forum in the Middle EastBeated an ambitious chord and said that the congress was “shortly before it was to say goodbye to the greatest tax reduction and regulation in American history”.

“If we get that, it will be like a rocket ship for our country,” said Trump in Saudi Arabia.

But to be safe, there are many more steps before the package becomes the law.

The goal for GOP legislators is essentially the goal of the GOP No taxes on tips, income from social security and car loan rates.

There is also a larger standard deduction, 32,000 US dollars for couples, an increase in the tax credit for children and a potentially higher upper limit of $ 30,000 for state and local tax deductions that are known as a salt that are still negotiated.

This is compensated for by 1.9 trillion dollars, mainly from the rollback from Green Energy tax credits for a net payment of 3.7 trillion US

In addition, the Republicans increase the expenses for their GOP priorities 350 billion US dollars for Trump's mass postponement plans and financing for the Pentagon.

At the same time, the Republicans try to promote the lost tax revenue and to avoid national deficits with another GOP target that trains the federal expenses back.

Over the decade, Republicans propose cuts of almost 800 billion US dollars for the Medicaid Health Care program used by 70 million Americans. 290 billion US dollars for food aid in the supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP; and other.

Integrated into the package other provisions Important for the White House – including one that would enable the Trump government to Tax exemption status of groups who say to support terrorists and send a shaking frost Organizations of civil society Whoever warns is a way to punish opponents.

House of democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries accused the Republicans of “hunting another GOP tax fraud”, which benefits the rich at the expense of programs and services that are used by many Americans.

Speaker Mike Johnson It is determined to push the package through the house to the memorial day and send it to the Senate, where the Republicans work on their own version.

Johnson and his management team constantly connected to Trump every step.

MP Jason Smith, the Republican Chair of Ways & Means Tax Reflect Committee, said he met Trump on Friday and exceeded the tax regulations “Line to Line”.

“He was very satisfied with what we deliver,” said Smith.

On Tuesday, the last three out of 11 house committees working on the package that is reduced to some of the largest components.

The mind flammed in the listening rooms. At one point, Rep. Brett Guthrie, the Republican chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee, legislature, to accuse colleagues, to be “lied”.

Democrats create posters of components with the words “Medicaid affairs”. One, Rep. Marc Vasey from Texas, put one on the loudspeakerphone to share their history – until her certificate was excluded outside the order.

The US Capitol police said 26 people were arrested in the Rayburn House Office building in which the committee met.

Estimates from the impartial congress budget office show that at least 7.6 million people with the Medicaid cuts and possibly more with the changes to the Affordable Care Act through the MedicAID can lose. Most of the time, the changes in the healthcare system will include new work requirements for the recipients of auxiliary recipients from January 1, 2029.

But the Republican MP Gary Palmer from Alabama said his team tried to make the health program better by spending waste and inefficiencies.

“We try to save medicaid,” he said.

As a minority party in the Congress, Democrats plan not to stop the legislative template in the available procedural instruments in order to slow down the process. It is expected that the hearings push into the morning hours.

The Republicans have dissent in their own ranks about health care and green energy cuts, which shows the upcoming pressure points.

Smith suggested that some changes to the legislation could be made in order to gain these legislators of the state of state from New York and California, which believe that the proposed salt cap is inadequate.

“There is a bit of scope there to provide additional priorities,” said Smith.

But Rep. Nick Lalota, Rn.Y., said after a one -hour meeting with the spokesman and the employees that they were “far from a deal”.

With the slimest majority in the house, Johnson has only a few votes to save and joins the resistance of his party, including the legislator in the Senate, which also has thin GOP margins.

Legislators drive for a period on July 4 to send the entire package to Trump's desk in good time in order to avoid dangerous debt delay. The finance minister said that the federal tax revenues have to increase the expenditure limit in order to further pay the invoices.

The package contains an increase of 4 trillion US dollars for the now 36 trillion dollar debt -related debt limit in the country in order to finance the operation through the intermediate election in 2026.

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Darlene Superville and Leah Askarinam, Associated Press Writers, contributed to this story.