Republican senators want to make changes to Trump’s “big and beautiful bill.” This is the competing group

The Senate has set an ambitious timeline for passing President Donald Trump Sweeping method Reduce taxes and expenditures. But put it on the desk of a Republican president By July 4th A few big decisions will be required.

Republican senators are concerned about various parts of the law, including Medicaid cuts, food aid changes and the impact on the deficit. To pass the bill,Senate Majority Leader John TuneSouth Dakota and other negotiators need to find a compromise that meets both ends of the meeting. And it can still fill the House.

See some of the groups and senators that leaders have to persuade while working to push Trump forward“Big and beautiful” billTowards the Senate vote:

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All Republican senators represent states with rural constituencies. Some of their states are the most rural in the country. Many of these low-populated areas rely heavily on Medicaid for health care, and it warns that changes to the bill’s program could be devastating for already struggling communities.

Of particular concern is the freeze on the so-called provider tax that some states use to help pay most of their Medicaid programs. Extra taxes often lead to higher payments from the federal government. Critics say it is a loophole that allows states to inflate their budgets. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and several others have argued that tax revenues will freeze when it hurts local hospitals, particularly those that will cause tax revenues to be frozen.

“The hospital will be closed,” Holy said last month. “It’s that simple, and that pattern is replicated in states around the country.”

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Thursday that his state’s provider tax was “the money we use for Medicaid.”

“You start cutting it out and we’re having a big problem,” Tuberville said. Eliminating these taxes “can lead to loss of some people.”

At the same time, Republican senators have little interest in the provisions passed in the House, where they spend more money by raising the state and local tax credit limits known as salt. High caps traditionally benefit more urban areas in high-tax states, such as New York and California.

The House included a new hat after New York Republicans threatened to oppose the bill, but Senate Republicans uniformly dislike it. “We need to adjust the salt regulations,” Thune said Wednesday.

Former (and possibly the future) Governor

The House Passed Bill would also shift the costs of some Medicaid and food stamps to the state. This is a change that has been bothered by former Senate governors, particularly the ones that are concerned about.

West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice, a state governor for eight years before electing to the Senate last year, said he supports many aspects of the bill. He supports new job requirements for Medicaid and Food Stamp recipients, restrictions on benefits for illegally in the country, and efforts to reduce fraud. “There’s real savings there,” Justice said. “But we should stop.”

“We’re on our way to cannibalize ourselves,” Justice said. “We don’t want to hurt children or hurt our families.”

The most unsettling provision would shift 5% of administrative fees to the state to manage supplementary nutrition assistance programs, or food stamps known as SNAPs. A high error rate in a program must assume an even higher percentage of federal costs.

North Dakota Sen. John Haven, who is also a former governor, said the senator is working to get feedback from the current governor and may propose “incentive-oriented ideas” rather than a high error rate penalty.

“I don’t know if the state has really seen some of the impacts of this yet,” Hoeven said.

Tuberville, who is running for governor of Alabama next year, said the program should be reformed instead of shifting costs.

“We know what our budget is and what we can afford. We can’t start a federal program. We can’t say, ‘Oh, let’s send it back to the state and let them take the big chunks’,” Tuberville said. “I mean, that’s not our way.”

Moderate

Thune needs to leave Republican moderates to the bill, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Both have reservations such as Medicaid cuts.

Collins said she wanted to see how the snap changes would affect her condition. Murkowski questions expired subsidies for Affordable Care Act and whether it is necessary if people are kicked out of Medicaid.

Last month, Murkowski said he wanted people to be unaffected by the bill.

He also supports Markovsky and Senators of North Carolina, John Curtis of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas.Energy Tax CreditIt will soon be phased out under the House bill. Four senators argued that a rapid repeal could create uncertainty for businesses and raise consumer prices.

Right side

Rand Paul in Kentucky, Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, Mikeley in Utah and Rixcott in Florida advocated legislationDon’t save enough moneyHe then threatened to vote against it.

Paul is considered to be the least likely to support this measure. He says if it raises the debt cap, he won’t vote for it. This is an important priority for both the House and Senate GOP leaders. Package risesNational debt restrictionsAs the Treasury states the limit, up to $4 trillion to allow more borrowing to pay the state’s billsYou need to raise itBy mid-July.

Johnson has been opposed to the law since it was announced in the House of Representatives, claiming that it will rarely cut government spending over time. He took these discussions to Trump last week at a meeting between the president and members of the Senate Finance Committee.

After the meeting, Johnson said he would continue to insist that the bill needs to do more to cut costs. But he said he left with the realisation that he needed to be “more positive” as Trump puts political pressure on him to hand it over to Republicans.

“We’ve come a long way from bending the deficit curve, but we know that it takes time,” Johnson said. “The truth is that there are many good things I absolutely support in this bill, and I want to make it a success.”

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