A tug of war has been entered into between home and senate republicans about how they can deal with the bill to extend Trump’s tax cuts for the rich. Senate -Republicans wanted to divide the priorities into several bills. Speaker Mike Johnson and Trump won and forced one bill in the Senate.
The Senate got hold of the house with a house and rewrote huge chunks.
The biggest change was that the Senate Republicans made the Medicaid cuts even more extreme.
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) actually stopped the Senate about the Medicaid changes, and although the Senate will probably pass something today or tomorrow, that does not mean that smooth sailing and blue skies move forward.
In fact, the opposite seems to be true.
Jake Sherman from Punchbowl News posted on X:
New – Johnson just “I had my colleagues from the Senate the upper hand to please, please, please, as close as possible to the house product, I have been very consistent from the start.” Johnson is still looking for changes to the Senate Act to bring it closer to the house.
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The Senate bill is on the ground. Senate people say that they do not change the bill considerably. Johnson is still looking for major changes hours prior to the last passage.
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At the moment there is just so much skepticism in the House Republican Conference that the Chamber can pass the reconciliation account this week. I am not saying they won’t do that. But mods, conservatives, leadership, etc. Everyone thinks this will be extremely difficult.
The bill of the house has only been adopted with one vote, so if one of the dozens of moderate decides to leave it, the bill sinks. What the house republicans have finally learned is that a person who is about Trump will be the target, but a group of defectors gives them strength in numbers.
