Thune pushes `Big Beautiful Bill ” from Trump to July 4 in the middle of the GOP divisions
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First on Fox: The head of the majority in the Senate, John Thune, was the opposite winds in his own conference on exceptional concerns to the President Donald Trump “Big, a beautiful bill” which threatens to have the legislation derail, but it skyrocketed and firmly that the Megabill will go to the president’s office by July 4.
“We have to hit him, and you know if it means that this is the end of next week, or if we enter this week of July 4,” said the Southern Dakota Republican at Fox News Digital during an interview with his management.
“But if we have to enter this week, we will,” he continued. “I think it’s so important. And you know what I have seen here, at least in the past, my experience, if there is no delay, things tend to hang around.”
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The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, speaks at a press conference at the American Capitol on June 17, 2025. (Getty Images)
The Senate Republicans worked on their version of Trump’s Mammoth Bill, which includes priorities to make its tax reductions and its permanent jobs, radical changes in health care, energy credits from the Biden era and deep expenditure reductions, among others, since early June.
Now that each part of the bill has been released, Thune plans to have the soil bill in the middle of next week. However, he still has to endeavor to disparate factions within the GOP of the Senate to board the bill.
“It’s a work in progress,” said Thune. “It is, you know, sometimes it’s a kind of uncommonstile baby step.”
A cohort of fiscal hawks, led by Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Are not satisfied with the level of expense reduction in the bill. Some Senate Republicans wish to reach at least 2 billions of dollars in spending discounts during the next decade, but Johnson has remained firm in his conviction that the bill should go further and return to the Pandemic Pandemic Expenditure levels.
Others, including meaning. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Josh Hawley, R-MO., And Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, are thwarted by Medicaid adjustments, and the impact that these changes could have on rural hospitals and workers on beneficiaries of the health care program.
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, indicates that the changes are subject to the version of the chamber of the “Big and Beautiful Bill” of President Trump. (Getty Images)
Thune must strike a precarious balancing act to respond to the concerns of his conference, since he cannot afford to lose three votes. It is a reality that he recognized and described as trying to find “The Sweet Spot” where he can advance the bill in the House.
He met the factions individually, communicated with the White House and works to “make sure that everyone is driving in the same direction”.
“Everyone has different opinions on how to proceed, but in the end, he is breaking the 51 votes necessary, so we are working with anyone who offers comments,” he said.
Collins and others work aside to create an emergency fund from the supplier who could offer a balm to the persistent problems concerning the repression of the tax on the MEDICAID provider in the invoice.
The Senate financing committee went further than freezing the chamber of the tax rate of providers, or the amount that Medicaid state programs pay to health care providers on behalf of the beneficiaries of Medicaid, for the expansion states of the non -affordable care law, and include a provision that reduces the rate of expansion states annually until it reaches 3.5%.
“We are going to do our best to make sure that, for example, rural hospitals have additional assistance for somehow this transition,” said Thune.
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A modified version of the Trump budget adopted by the room was voted at the end of a series of marathon votes in the Senate. (Reuters)
Thune, who is a member of the finance committee, noted that “we all agree that the supplier tax has been played” and “abused” by blue states like New York and California, and argued that the changes had been made to help “put the ship again”.
“I think that is why the kind of approach outside ramp and soft landing (de) the finance committee makes sense, but these are substantial changes,” he said. “But on the other hand, if we do not start to do certain things to reform and strengthen these programs, these programs will not be there forever, because we are not going to be able to allow them.”
The Senate product will not, however, be the end of the reconciliation process. The changes in the bill will have to be lit in green by the chamber, and a particular change in the tax deduction ceiling (salt) and local already has a cohort of republicans of Blue State House Furious and threatening to kill the bill.
The Senate bill, for the moment, has left the ceiling unchanged at $ 10,000 in the policy inaugurated by Trump tax reductions, a figure that the Senate republicans consider a reserved space while negotiations continue.
Indeed, Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Works with members of Salt Caucus in the room to find a compromise on the ceiling. But the appetite to maintain the ceiling of $ 40,000 at home is not strong in the Senate.
“The passion of the Senate is as strong as in the Chamber against the modification of current policy and law in a way which … promotes states with high taxes to the detriment and disadvantage of low tax states,” he said. “And it is therefore the emotion you see on the side of the room on this particular question is equal to the Senate in a different direction.”
Meanwhile, while negotiations continue behind the scenes on the means of resolving questions among the Senate Republicans, the Senate parliamentarian is currently going through each section of the biggest “big bill”.
The role of the parliamentarian is to determine whether the policies of each section of the bill behave with the Byrd rule, which is the set of arcanic parameters that govern the process of budget reconciliation.
Thune clearly indicated that he would not prevail over this parliamentarian on Trump’s megabill, and reprovisited this position once again. The reconciliation process gives one or the other in power the possibility of adopting legislation on the parties of the parties and bypassing the Senate filibusier, but it must respect the requirements of the Byrd rule according to which the policy deals with expenses and income.
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However, he replied that the Senate Republicans planned to take a page of the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., when the Democrats struck the agenda of former president Joe Biden by the Congress.
“Democrats with (inflation Reduction Act) and (American Rescue Plan Act), moreover, they have considerably widened the scope of reconciliation and what is eligible for consideration,” he said.
“So, we used this model, and we push as hard as possible to make sure that this allows us to accomplish our program, or at least as much of our program as possible, and to adapt to the parameters of what is authorized,” he continued.
