After meeting at the White House Speaker Johnson vows to push ahead on Trump’s big bill

Washington (AP) – Challenging the opposition within its ranks, the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, insisted on Wednesday night that the Republicans would march ahead of their Multimillionaire tax bisuros package After a long white house meeting with Holdouts of the Republican Party that refuses to support the bill.

Johnson and his republican leadership team seemed to be sure that they could comply with their schedule and underpin the support of the Republican Party for the final passage Wednesday night or Thursday after the last conversations to save the rescue of the salvation of the salvation of the salvation of the «Great, beautiful bill.» But the next steps are very uncertain.

«We are excited that we are going to land this plane,» said Johnson, Republican of the la-la, in the Capitol.

But as the afternoon hours were dedicated, the optimistic tone disagreed with the difficult scene to drive in the Capitol. The Rules Committee has been moving through a marathon session, passing its time 18, while the process advances. Another Republican, the representative of Tennessee, John Rose, announced his opposition to the Republican bill. And the Democrats, without the votes to stop the Trump package, are using all the available tools and passionate speeches to press their opposition and capitalize on the disorder of the Republican Party.

«We believe it is a big and ugly bill that will hurt the American people,» said House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries New York while he and his team testified to the committee.

«Wounding children, hurting families, hurting veterans, hurting the elderly, reducing medical care, reducing nutritional assistance, exploiting debt,» he said.

It is a creative moment for the president and his party in Congress. They have invested much of their political capital during the first crucial months of Trump’s return to the White House in this legislation. If the Republicans of the Chamber align with the President, overcoming unified democratic objections, the measure would go to the Senate.

Trump had implored legislators a day before in the Capitol that he did, but the Holdouts endured. It is not clear what, exactly, was agreed, or not, during Wednesday’s long meeting at the White House. However, Johnson later indicated that Trump himself could achieve for executive actions, some of the objectives that Congress cannot accept in the legislative process.

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the meeting was productive and moved the ball in the right direction.

A big problem has been the tentative agreement with the legislators of the Republican Party of New York and other high -tax states to boost local tax deductions to $ 40,000. But that expensive disposition, which meets the hundreds of billions of dollars, alarmed the most conservative Republicans, worried that those of the nation are sounded. $ 36 billion debt.

For each faction of the majority of the Slim house that Johnson applies, runs the risk of losing others.

Representative Andy Harris, R-MD., President of the Freedom Caucus of the House of Representatives, he said previously that he did not believe that the package could pass in a vote of the camera, but «there is a way forward that we can see.»

A new analysis of the Congress Budget Office said that fiscal provisions would increase federal deficits by $ 3.8 billion during the decade, while the Changes to MedicaidFood coupons and other services would have $ 1 billion in reduced expenses. The lowest income households in the United States would see their resources fall, while the highest would see an impulse, the CBO said.

In essence, the package focuses on extending tax exemptions approved during Trump’s first mandate in 2017, while adding new ones that campaigned during his 2024 campaign.

To compensate for some of the lost income, the Republicans focus on the cuts of expenses to the federal programs of the security networks and a huge Rolón of green energy tax exemptions of the Law on Inflation Reduction of the Biden Era.

In addition, the package adds $ 350 billion in new expenses, with around $ 150 billion going to the Pentagon, even for the president’s new. » Golden Dome ”Defense ShieldAnd the rest for Trump’s mass deportation and border security agenda.

The package title carries Trump’s own words, » A great bill. «

As Trump promised voters, the package proposes that There are no taxes on advice For certain workers, including those of some service industries; Interest of loans for cars; or some payment of overtime.

There would be an increase in the standard deduction of the Income Tax, to $ 32,000 for the joint filing archivators and an impulse to the children’s tax credit at $ 2,500. There would be an improved deduction, of $ 4,000, for older adults of certain income levels, to help cover taxes on social security entry.

To reduce spending, the package would impose new work requirements for many people who receive medical care through Medicaid. Healthy adults without dependents would need to meet 80 hours a month in a job or in other community activities.

Similarly, those who receive food coupons through the supplementary nutritional assistance program, known as SNAP, would also face new work requirements.

Americans older than up to 64 years, instead of 54, who are capable and without dependents would need to work or participate in community programs for 80 hours per month. In addition, some parents of children over 7 years would have to meet the work requirements; According to the current law, the requirement occurs after children are 18 years old.

Republicans said they want to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in federal programs.

The Congress Budget Office has estimated that 8.6 million people would have health insurance with the various changes in Medicaid and the affordable care law. He also said that 3 million less people each month would have Snap benefits.

Conservatives insist on faster and more pronounced cuts to federal programs to compensate for the costs of billion dollars in lost tax revenues. The leaders of the Republican Party have accelerated the start date of the Medicaid work requirements from 2029 to 2027.

At the same time, the most moderate and centrist legislators distrust the changes in Medicaid that could result in a loss of medical care lost by their constituents. Others are concerned that the elimination of renewable energy tax exemptions prevents companies from using them to invest in green energy projects in many states.

In addition, those legislators in New York, California and other high -tax states wanted a larger state and local fiscal deduction, called Salt, for their voters at home.

According to the emerging salt agreement, the deduction limit of $ 10,000 would quad up to $ 40,000 with an income limit of $ 500,000, according to a person granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. The lid would be reduced for income above that level.

The committee of a responsible federal budget, a non -partisan fiscal surveillance group, estimates that the Chamber’s bill It is forming To add approximately $ 3.3 billion to the debt during the next decade.

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The Associated Press writer Chris Megerian contributed to this report.