The Chamber adopts the Senate Budget Resolution as a conservative cave

Washington – The Republicans of the House of Representatives adopted a budget resolution on Thursday after the conservatives received symbolic guarantees from the party’s leaders that they would support deeper expenses.

Around a dozen members of the far -right house there were It was supported in the resolution approved by the Senate on Wednesday night, forcing the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (Republican of LA-LA) to postpone a planned vote.

But then Johnson and the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune (RS.D.) appeared next to each other Thursday morning to announce that they had reached an informal agreement to appease the holdouts.

“Our first large and beautiful reconciliation package here implies a series of commitments, and one of them is that we are committed to finding at least $ 1.5 billion in savings for the US people and at the same time preserving our essential programs,” said Johnson.

The camera previously adopted a budget that requested $ 1.5 billion in expenses of expenses, only for the Senate to ignore and send a budget with only $ 4 billion in cuts.

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In particular, Thune did not unequivocally commit the Republicans of the state Senate with the figure of $ 1.5 billion.

“Our ambition in the Senate is that we are aligned in the Chamber in terms of what its budget resolution described, in terms of savings,” said Thune. “The speaker has talked about $ 1.5 billion. We have many senators from the United States who believe it is a minimum, and we will certainly do everything possible to be as aggressive as possible to see that we take the matter seriously.”

In fact, several Republican senators have said they would not support the budget reduction framework of the House of Representatives. Thune never let him vote in the Senate after the camera adopted it in February, after all.

But Thune’s words on Thursday were good enough for most retreats from the camera, whose support for the bill, casually, will save Trump’s anger and also allow the camera to go to a two -week Easter recess as planned.

“Has anyone seen a commitment like that before?” Representative Scott Perry (R-PA.) He said in response to a question about whether Thune’s words were sufficient security.

House Freedom Caucus president Andy Harris (R-MD.) Said Thune said essentially: “We agree on the numbers of the house. We agree within the framework of the house.”

Minutes later, Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO.) And Susan Collins (R-MAINE) told News themezone that they would not necessarily support the reduction of expenses of $ 1.5 trillion described in the budget of the House of Representatives, which requested up to $ 880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, approximately 11% of the future external external ones of the program.

“I’m not going to vote for Medicaid benefits cuts,” Hawley said. “Then, if you want my vote here, then it will not contain docks of Medicaid.”

“I have made it clear that I will not support the cuts in Medicaid that damage people with disabilities, our low -income families, our elders, our rural hospitals and other medical care providers,” said Collins, and added that he would be open to a narrow limit of medical benefits for unemployed adults.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) Said that President Donald Trump would finally be reduced bending the camera and the Senate to his will.

“We will inevitably have to go to the White House and sit with the Treasury Secretary [Scott] Besent and the president and others and decide what is and what is outside, and what is inside, what is outside, and then the president will have to leave all the strength of his authority, “Kennedy said.

The measure adopted on Thursday He would use a budget trick to remove the cost of $ 4 billion extending the tax cuts that President Donald Trump signed during his first term, with little promise of expenses of expenses to compensate for the additional fiscal exemptions that Trump launched during his campaign for president last year. Republicans from the House of Representatives have howled on the trick, which goes against everything they have said about fiscal responsibility.

The budget is not designed to become law, but indicates to the Congress committees to write the legislation that meets specific cost objectives. Both the Chamber and the Senate would need to vote on that legislation; Democrats could not file the bill thanks to the special process of two steps of the budget process that Republicans are using.

The proposed Medicaid cut has already been politically harmful to Republicans, with voters shouting about the municipalities.

“The struggles that Republicans have faced so far are just a ray of what is coming,” said Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (Dn.y.). “If they had it hard in the Budget resolution, imagine how difficult the reconciliation will be with all its contradictory promises. “