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Four embroidery points for republican rebels

Bernd Debusmann Jr.

BBC News, Washington

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Donald Trump's “Big, Beautiful Bill” has stalled so far on the Capitol Hill.

In a setback for Donald Trump, his Republicans in the House of Representatives did not adopt the “large, beautiful” package of tax breaks and patterns of the president, which emphasized the party's budget departments.

The 1,116 -side legislation -officially described as a large, beautiful legal board and, as Trump's own description had failed on Friday to achieve the household committee of the House Household before a full vote.

The president went to social media to demand the Republicans, “stop talking and do it!” However, some of them argued that the cuts did not go far enough and torpedo the measure.

Let's take a look at where the disagreements are.

How much to cut?

One of the primary embroidery points in the negotiations includes exactly how much one has to do from the budget bill, with several conservative congressmates demand for steeper cuts.

As things exist, the total tax breaks of the measure of around 4.9 meters (3.7 m), partly paid by cuts to the public health program known as a Medicaid program and the tax breaks approved by the former President Joe Biden for environmentally friendly energy.

Four right -wing legislators have held their support and argue that the cuts should be steeper to avoid swelling of the public debts of America, which is currently $ 36. A fifth legislature also voted on without procedural reasons.

“This draft law drops deeply,” said one of the rebels, the Texas Republican Chip Roy. “I am a” no “in this draft law unless serious reforms are carried out.”

Medicaid

Perhaps the most controversial article in the invoice is cuts – partly through work requirements – for Medicaid, a health program for Americans with lower incomes.

Mr. Roy and other Republicans – including Ralph Norman by South Carolina, Josh Brecheen from Oklahoma and Andrew Clyde in Georgia – want further cuts in Medicaid and other social security programs.

The law would require the states to refuse to cover the medicaid cover if the reigning Americans who use the program do not work at least 80 hours a month or carry out other community options from 2029.

It would also end reporting for those who cannot prove that they meet the work requirements.

Roy and other conservatives want these work requirements to start immediately – and not after President Trump left the office.

Other legislators such as the Republican Senator Josh Hawley in Missouri argued against Medicaid's cuts because they warn that it would affect millions of voters with lower incomes.

“This wing of the party wants the Republicans to build our large, beautiful, beautiful calculation for health insurance for the working arms,” ​​Hawley wrote on May 12th in the New York Times. “But this argument is both morally wrong and politically suicidal.”

Dozens of other republicans of the house have also expressed concerns.

State and local tax deductions

Another point of dispute in the invoice is a tripling of a local tax deduction – known as salt – from 10,000 to 30,000 US dollars for couples.

Some legislators from states with high taxes such as New York, California and New Jersey have raised objections and said that the proposed upper limit is not high enough.

In a joint explanation in May in May, Elise Stefanik, Andrew Garrarino, Nick Lalota and Mike Lawler proposed the Republican Congress member, the spokesman Mike Johnson, “proposed an amount that they already knew to earn our support”.

“It is not only offensive – it risks to derail President Trump's only nice bill,” added the explanation. “We rejected this offer.”

Some so-called Salz Republicans have publicly demanded that the upper limit for individuals are collected to $ 62,000, and twice for the joint submission of couples.

According to reports, the Republican of Republicans of the Republicans after a compromise in which the upper limit for individuals and 80,000 US dollars for common filers would be collected at 40,000 US dollars.

The “Salt Caucus” formed in 2021 is a cross -party effort that brings together both Democrats and Republicans, which hope to lift the current upper limit of $ 10,000.

Food aid

As part of the legislation, the Republicans from House have requested significant reforms to the supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Snap.

More than 42 million Americans currently benefit from the SNAP program with which you can buy federal funds every year.

The legislation would oblige individual states to owe 5% of the costs of service costs and 75% of the administrative costs each year.

The states are currently not responsible for SNAP costs and pay half of the administrative costs.

The Republicans also hope to expand the existing work requirements for recipients that currently apply to people without relatives between the ages of 18 and 54. The current proposal would expand this to 64.

Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said the proposal was “a slap in the face” for millions of Americans “who rely on the program for food aid to put food on the table and ensure that their children do not become hungry.

The Republicans argue that the proposal would reduce state waste, promote work through well -being and restore “common sense” for the program.

The House Agriculture Committee has already approved 300 million US dollars in cuts for the SNAP program for the financing of tax cuts.

Government data show that around 12% of Americans received Snap advantages last year, with the number higher in some Republican countries such as Alabama and Oklahoma.

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