Senators want to delay Trump’s budget law

With bizarre tactics

US MPs want to delay Trump’s budget

Despite internal party criticism, Trump brings his billion -dollar budget law into the Senate. Democrats protest – with an unusual means.

The US Senate has started its debate about the controversial budget and tax law of the government of President Donald Trump. The meeting opened on Saturday evening (local time) in Washington to the draft called “One Big Beautiful Bill” (a great beautiful law), which was also controversial under Trump’s Republicans, continued on Sunday in the early morning. Despite voting against from his own ranks, Trump celebrated the approval of the design for debate as a “great victory”.

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” provides for tax relief in the trillion area, additional military spending and cuts in social benefits. Planned cuts at Medicaid – the state health program for low earners – and at food aid are particularly heavily criticized. An estimated 8.6 million people could lose their health care.

The planned counter -financing also ensures criticism: tax relief from Trump’s first term of office is to be extended of $ 4.5 trillion. Independent analyzes expect additional public debt of over three trillion dollars.

Trump also wants to delete tax breaks for climate -friendly technologies that were introduced under his predecessor Joe Biden. The Republican parliamentary group leaders are now pushing for a quick farewell – ideally this weekend – so that the House of Representatives can agree to the design in good time and Trump can sign it at the latest on the independence day on July 4th.

The opposition Democrats accuse Trump of enforcing tax reliefs for rich on the back of the workers’ layer – particularly explosive in times of high inflation. In order to delay the vote, they demand that the approximately 1,000 -page text text is completely read out in the Senate – a procedure that could take up to 15 hours.

There is also resistance within the Republicans – especially because of the growing public debt and drastic social cuts. The party -internal pressure is high: Trump cannot afford too many deviators. Opinion surveys show: In the population, the law encounters rejection across the part – especially among older and low -income groups of voters.