The president of the House of Representatives, Johnson, tries to promote Trump’s ‘great’ agenda forward

“We are going to get everyone there,” said Johnson, from Louisiana, at an event at the beginning of the week, half jokes that had a “prayer application” involved.

The package, if approved, would be a crucial part of the budget process since Trump pushes Republicans who control the Congress to approve a massive bill that would extend the fiscal exemptions, which he assured during his first mandate but expires in the late This year, while reducing spending on federal programs and services.

But Republicans encounter a family problem: cutting federal expenditure is usually easier to say than it. With the cuts to the Pentagon and other programs largely outside the limits, many of the other disbursements of the government go for medical care, food coupons, student loans and programs on which they are based on their constituents.

Everything is being developed as multimillion -dollar advisor Trump, Elon Musk, is tearing federal agencies with their government efficiency department that fire thousands of workers throughout the country, and angry voters are beginning to face legislators at the City Hall meetings at home.

“While we fully support the efforts to control unnecessary expense and comply with President Trump’s agenda, it is imperative that we do not reduce programs that support US communities throughout our nation,” wrote the representative Tony Gonzales, R-Texas and several several Other Republicans legislators at the Hispanic Conference of Congress.

Democrats in the Chamber and the Senate promise to fight the entire process. The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, planned to gather legislators in the steps of the Capitol in protest during the session on Tuesday.

“This is not what people want,” said representative Jim McGovern, D-Mass., During a rules debate before planned votes.

“We all know that the drip economy,” he said about the 2017 fiscal exemptions that flowed mainly to the rich, “do not work.”

Trump has pointed out a preference for the “great” bill, but also seems to enjoy a competition between the Chamber and the Senate, legislators said, while facing the Republicans with each other to see which version will arise in a path to the approval.

The Senate Republicans, cautious that Johnson can lift their bill on the finish line, launched their own climbing package of $ 340 billion last week. He focuses on sending Trump’s money that his administration needs for his deportation and border security agenda now, with plans to address the tax cuts separately at the end of this year.

“I am containing my breathing. I am crossing my fingers, “said Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, who said he is supporting the camera approach as the best option.” I think a single opportunity is his best opportunity. “

Johnson, whose party lost seats in the elections last November, orders one of the thinnest majorities in modern history, which means that it must maintain almost all Republicans online or risk losing the vote.

Already, several legislators have opposed the package because it cuts too much or because it does not cut enough.

The most conservative Republicans warn that it will accumulate in the debt load of $ 36 billion of $ 36 of the nation, because the cost of tax exemptions, at least $ 4.5 billion during the decade, exceeds $ 2 billion in cuts in cuts from expenses to government programs.

The most moderate Republican legislators are concerned that the huge budget cuts that are seen, about $ 880 billion for the committee that manages the expense in medical care, including Medicaid, for example, or $ 230 billion to the Agriculture Committee that finances Food coupons. Back home.

Republican leaders are trying to convince legislators that the details will be discussed in the coming weeks and that this week’s vote is just a first step.

The budget is compiling during a long process that first sends instructions to the various Chamber and Senate committees, which will then have several weeks to design more detailed plans for debate and additional votes.

“The committees need time to work to find savings,” said the leader of the majority Steve Scalise, Republican of R-La. “But we can’t even get to that if we don’t exceed the budget. So, we have to take the first step as the end of this week.”

Ten presidents of the Chamber of Representatives of the Committees involved issued a joint statement in a sample of force to boost the package.

“The ‘One Big Beaut Beaut Bill’ of the Chamber of the Chamber offers about the entire political agenda of President Trump,” they wrote in a letter obtained by Associated Press. “We must comply with this historical moment with the bold action it requires.”

Representative Jodey Arrington, republican president of the Chamber Budget Committee, told reporters that he recognizes the tension between Republicans who want more cuts and those of politically competitive districts that “have a higher level of sensitivity to some of the reforms of bills”.

Arrington said that with the assumptions of economic growth, from 1.8% as projected by the budget office of the non -partisan Congress to 2.6%, as projected by the Republicans of the House of Representatives, the package would generate around $ 2.6 billion In savings for 10 years and guarantee that the plan helps reduce the deficit.

Some fiscal defense groups see the economic projections of the Republican party as too optimistic.