Chamber Republican Party leaders are ready to vote on Trump

Washington – Republican leaders of the Chamber are moving forward when trying to approve the ambitious policy package of President Donald Trump, with a final vote as soon as the first hours of Thursday.

Republicans launched its final amendments To the massive proposal of tax cuts on Wednesday night, just before the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives, involves a hearing of almost 22 hours to obtain the final contours of the bill. Dozens of Democrats appeared before the committee to present hundreds of their own amendments, dragging the audience process for hours. The panel led by the Republican party rejected all its amendments.

Representative Virginia Newsx (RN.C.), president of the Committee, said after the hearing that she expected the Chamber to vote on Wednesday night on the rule of the tax package of the Republican party and that “there is the possibility that we do the bill tonight.”

The Republican leaders of the Chamber then alerted the legislators of their schedule for the next few hours: the debate on the bill around 2:15 am on Thursday begins, vote on the final approval between 4:30 and 5:30 am

However, the Democrats were already frustrating the plan at 11:15 pm on Wednesday. As soon as the Republicans tried to start the debate of the camera on the rule, the Democrats forced a vote to postpone the camera, an effort to drag the clock.

There is no final version of the bill, which is entitled “a great beautiful bill.” The Rules Committee still has to roll the amendments of the Republican Party of the 11 hour in the previous legislation of 1,100 pages that have been distributed. Nor is it clear what all minute changes of the Republican Party are, or if the final proposal even has the votes to approve.

Part of the strategy of the Republican leaders is to use the vote in itself to press the withdrawals so that they collapse and support the bill. The Republican party can only afford to lose a handful of votes, and so far, representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky) has said that he will vote no, and some others, such as the representative Dave Schweikert (R-Ariz), said that as recently as Wednesday night they did not agree with him.

The legislation is consistent: it includes approximately $ 4 billion in tax cuts for wealthy people and compensate for some of these cuts by cutting federal health and nutrition programs in more than $ 1 billion.

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Some of the additions of the last minute of the Republican Party to the bill began drawing attention on Wednesday night. During the Rules Committee hearing, the representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA.) Howled on a “magical amendment” that is now linked to the bill that would facilitate people from buying weapons silencers. Specifically, this provision eliminates a $ 200 firearms registration rate for silencers and also eliminates the requirement that people have to register their silencers.

The addition It was a demand Of the representative Andrew Clyde (R-G.), A member of the Freedom Caucus of the extreme right who had been circling the bill.

Scanlon called him “a shameless attempt to facilitate violent crime.”

The final package of the Republicans of the House of Representatives will not include mandates to potentially sell hundreds of thousands of public land acres. Some other public land provisions, such as advancing in a mining road in Alaska, were also stripped of the bill.

This seems to be a victory for representative Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), Who opposed these mandates. The Sierra Club celebrated this change in the bill, what he said is horrible.

“The American people have spoken strong and clear: our public lands should not be on sale,” said Athan Manuel, director of the land protection program of the Sierra Club, in a statement. “The members of the Congress on both sides of the corridor were right to throw this proposal in the garbage boat, but a bad bill remains a bad bill.”

The Western priorities center specifically thanked Zinke for helping to take this provision of the final bill.

“Clearly, the sale of public lands remains a third rail for the members of Congress on both sides of the hall,” said the group deputy director Aaron Weiss. “I am grateful to our champions on both sides of the hall, especially representative Ryan Zinke, who fought against this wrong attack against our public lands.”