The Senate likely to change the megabill adopted by the house has advanced Trump’s agenda

The House Republicans approved the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” included the legislative program of President Donald Trump on Thursday. But erasing the Chamber is only the first obstacle for the bill, which will also have to spend hunting with a republican conference in the Senate which is already a telegraphic that changes.

Trump pushes rapid action on his megabill, urging senators In a post on x Act “as soon as possible” after the narrow victory of the house.

“We can celebrate this pass in the bedroom for a few hours, but it is now time for the Senate to go to work,” said the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during the White House press briefing on Thursday. “The president has an excellent relationship with … the head of majority in the Senate [John] THUNE, and of course, so many friends on the side of the hill Senate. And he expects them to deal with this invoice and send it to his office as soon as possible. “”

The Senate Republicans say that they clearly have in the eyes of wanting to transmit Trump’s legislative program into law as quickly as they can, but have the intention of modifying the bill to leave their own distinct mark on the package and work to change things to which they oppose.

The head of the majority, Thune, said on Wednesday that “there are things that we have to adjust or modify or change”, adding that President Mike Johnson “understands and accepts it perfectly”.

The main questions that GOP senators have raised about the bill is that it adds billions of dollars to national debt.

“”[The] House Bill will add about 4 billions of dollars to the debt ceiling. The Senate bill adds 5 billions of dollars. There is nothing in a fiscally conservative way to expand the ceiling of debt more than we have never done before, “Republican senator Rand Paul said on Thursday.” It will be the greatest increase in the debt ceiling of all time, and the GOP has this now … The deficit this year will be 2.2 billions of dollars that the GOP also has now. “”

Some Senate Republicans call for stronger spending reductions so that the increase in the debt limit is not part of this bill.

Republican senator Ron Johnson, a notable fiscal hawk, also strongly pointed out that he would not support the bill in its current form, since it increases the deficit.

“It is so far from the brand. It’s so bad. I tried to interview reality. I tried to interjection to the facts and the figures,” said Ron Johnson on Wednesday afternoon in the Capitol, while the Chamber was always advancing the bill through the rules committee.

“Currently, the budgetary situation is not even in the conversation in the debate of the house. We miss the forest talking about twigs and leaves. Medicaid, that is to say, it is a tree. It is a fairly important problem. But all that, all these small adjustments that they are trying to conclude to obtain the completely ignoring the elf in the room. Which says, on average, I mean, today [Congressional Budget Office] Estimate, on average, we will have a deficit of 2.2 dollars of dollars per year, “added Senator Johnson.

Some GOP senators seemed more favorable to the bill, but noted that there was an important job to do to go through the upper room.

The Republican senator Thom Tillis said that “many things look pretty good”, adding that it is a “good start”.

“However, I think there are opportunities for more efficiency, additional savings, and we have to examine the details of some of the investment tax credits and production tax credits, and I think that even if we will revise them, we must make sure that companies believe that the government defined this because the priority does not have many brands costs,” he added.

If the bill is restricted by the Senate, it risks a complicated path for the speaker on the road when the bill returns to the House. The Republicans have established a deadline of July 4 so that the two chambers adopted the bill and take it to the Trump office.

Passing this massive set through the Senate is not a cake for Thune either, which cannot afford to lose three of its members if this arises for a vote on the Senate soil.

The bill adopted by the Chamber includes new tax reductions, reductions in social security nets programs and changes in the food assistance program, Snap – all of which led Democrats to Lambaster the legislation to create advantages for some of the richest Americans and discounts for some of the poorest.

The chief of the minority Chuck Schumer criticized the bill A message on X Thursday morning.

“It’s not a big, beautiful bill. It’s ugly,” said Schumer. “There is nothing beautiful to eliminate people’s health care, to force children to be hungry, to refuse communities the resources they need and to increase poverty.”

Democratic senator Patty Murray described the “scam” bill In a post on xUndering all the Republicans to vote no.

“The Republicans of the Chamber do not want you to know that they have just adopted a bill that makes health care more expensive and gives a kick at millions of Medicaid, everything to pass down tax cuts for billionaires & Giant Corporations, “wrote Murray.” We have to make sure that America knows. And we have to kill this bill in the Senate. “”

Leavitt criticized Democrats as being “out of contact” with the Americans.

“Each democrat in the House of Representatives who voted against all these common sense and massively popular policies,” Leavitt said during the White House press briefing on Thursday. “The Democratic Party has never been so radical and disconnected from the needs of the American people.”

The Senate will also have to deal with the rules governing what can be included in such a package. Make sure that the bill adopts the rally with the Senate parliamentarian could result in additional changes to the bill that Mike Johnson will possibly have to sell at his conference in the House.

While Trump is now preparing to negotiate with the senators, Leavitt told the chief correspondent of the ABC News, Mary Bruce, whom she did not know if these conversations had already started.

What did GOP Holduts get?

President Johnson had to work with his right flank to pass the Megabill to the House, which he managed to do with a vote. So, what changed to get them more than a dozen retained on board?

Not much, ABC News told ABC News.

After working for days to put pressure for higher spending discounts and a braille on several occasions against expenses that added to the swollen national deficit, many selected yielded.

“The Freedom Caucus played a decisive role, and we played it as long as possible to get the cuts, as long as we could. We could no longer do it. We live to fight another day,” said Republican journalists, Ralph Norman, a key selector, to journalists.

Norman says that there was no specific agreement concluded between Trump, the speaker and the conservations of the hard line – even after a meeting with high and last challenges in the White House on Wednesday.

The president of the House Freedom Caucus, Andy Harris, would not give the bill his vote. He voted “present”.

Republican representative Keith Self, another hardliner, told ABC News that he waited until the last minute to vote yes on the bill. He did not fully support the bill, but did not want to be the only one to nest it.

“We have something … I would have preferred to go further, to be honest with you, but we did what we could, and we fought the right fight,” said self.

This number of “more than a dozen” retained also included state republicans like New York and California, putting pressure on a higher ceiling on the tax deduction of the state and local. President Johnson noted this ceiling from his $ 30,000 project to $ 40,000 and increasing 1% per year thereafter. It was enough to get their support.

But, for the Hawks spending, we do not know how they can characterize it as a victory.

Leavitt said on Thursday that she thought Trump would like to see the two Republican representatives who voted not on the bill – representatives Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson – should be essential.

“I do not think he likes to see the tidalies at the Congress. What is the alternative? I would ask these members of the Congress. Did they want to see a tax hike? Did they want to see our country going bankrupt? This is the alternative by them trying to vote no,” said Leavitt.

Sarah Beth Hensley of ABC News contributed to this report.