Trump budget package in danger when it hits the GOP opposition

Washington -The Republicans of the House must have added several important disputes that threaten to derail the domestic law of President Trump than more conservative members and Blue-State Republicans.

The spokesman for the House of Representatives Mike Johnson is still obliged to enter the legislation that would extend the tax reductions of Mr. Trump's first term and temporarily exercise new ones before the day of remembrance. The tax measures as well as the increased expenditure for military and border security would be partially compensated for by cuts against medicaid, food brands and subsidies for clean energy.

But first of Friday, the household committee of the House of Representatives has to lead, where a handful of conservatives have declared that legislation does not go far enough to reduce federal expenses. MP Ralph Norman from South Carolina said on Thursday that he and MP Chip Roy from Texas would vote against the laws of the law.

“We have an expenditure problem. We have a deficit problem, and that is not addressed,” said Norman.

MP Jodey Arrington from Texas, the Republican Chairman of the Budget Committee, said that he was confident that there are enough votes to drive it forward if the committee meets on Friday to merge the various parts of the reconciliation package that was made by other committees in a single invoice. If it can get out of the household committee, the plan that the rules will hit the committee on Monday to create it for a floor vote later a week.

In the meantime, a group of Republicans from Blue States has threatened to withhold their support in a ground vote if the draft law does not increase the upper limit for state and local taxes that can be written off for the federal tax return. The invoice increases the upper limit for the deduction from $ 10,000 to $ 30,000, but several Republicans in New York have insisted to increase it even further.

The Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, named the upper limit on Thursday as “unacceptable” and said that the group had made it clear to the lead that “none of us will support what is currently going on”.

Among the requirements that conservative members have been raised, the work requirements for Medicaid recipients without disabilities and children are increased. The requirements would only be determined in 2029 as part of the current law, and the conservatives would like them to enter as soon as the legislation becomes a law.

Steve Scalisene, a Republican in Louisiana, said on Thursday that they will be considering to improve the work requirements on Thursday to bring more members with the end product on board, but added that the last details were not worked out.

Johnson, a Republican in Louisiana, spent the opposing factions on Thursday and said that they would continue to negotiate over the weekend to solve the remaining differences. He can only afford three defects if all members vote in a floor vote.

Ellis Kim

contributed to this report.