One could say that it is an attempt to influence the legislative work. Are. And even publicly. By Donald Trump Of course, of course, it became a “gunpowder” because the “big and nice” has not passed (yet) bill of! And he put them with the Republicans, warning them (or threatening them) that they were losing votes.
Until late Wednesday night (02.07.2025) Republican Members of the House of Representatives failed to overcome their disagreements and approve the sweeping bill on tax exemptions and cost cuts promoted by Donald Trump. It is the “big and nice” bill of the US president, for which became (publicly) “balloons” with his once adorable Elon Musk.
The bill has passed through the Senate by a marginal majority. He then went to the House of Representatives. But the opposition of many conservative MPs has caused long delays in the process. And of course Donald Trump’s intense (public) reaction.
Republicans have a majority of only eight seats and that means they can lose only three votes. But by midnight (Washington time), five Republican MPs insisted on voting “against” during the latest procedural vote before a final vote on the bill.
Members can change their vote as long as the vote remains open, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson told Fox News that it will keep it open “for as long as it takes”.
Angry Trump
The fact that the bill has not yet passed has triggered Donald Trump’s furious reaction. And he grabbed the … keyboard and started posting on Truth Social. And the threats because, as he wrote, in the Make America Great Again movement, they don’t like it all and that means that the rebels are losing votes.
“What are the Republicans waiting for? What are you trying to prove? Maga is not happy and that costs you votes!“, Trump wrote. And continued: ‘For Republicans should be a Easy vote ‘yes’. Ridiculous!ยป.
What does the “nice bill” foresee
The ‘big and nice’ Trump bill, ie the tax billis the basis of the US president’s financial program. Congress has been pushing for many weeks to approve it before Friday, on the day of independence for the US.
Basic Axis: The extension of huge tax exemption adopted during Trump’s first term. At the same time, it provides for the abolition of tax on the graduates, a pre -election commitment, as well as billions of dollars for defense and the treatment of irregular migration.
The US president said a few hours before the … release to the Rebubus that, if the bill was adopted, the US will get to know “an economic rebirth as never before”.
However independent analysts estimate that by Trump’s bill will mainly benefit the richestwhile millions of Americans with lower incomes may lose access to healthcare and social security programs.
At the same time the bill provides for a drastic reduction in Snap, basic food aid program in the USas well as the abolition of many tax incentives adopted by the Joe Biden government to promote renewable energy sources.
Experts but also politicians also point out that the bill will launch US public debt.
The Congress Budget Office, responsible for assessing the impact of bills on US budgets, announced on Tuesday that the Trump bill will increase the country’s debt by more than 3.4 trillion. dollars by 2034. Only the extension of tax exemptions will cost 4.5 trillion. dollars.
“I came to Washington to help put a brake on our national debt,” Keith Self, a Republican MP said, justifying the reason why he voted “against” procedural vote.
The Texan MP accused the Senators of “trampling” the previous version of the bill adopted by the House of Representatives, stressing that his negative vote was “a matter of ethics”.
The Democrats, as expected, are opposed to the bill. Their head of the House of Representatives Hakim Jeffris has described it as a “monstrous abomination” which “will make ordinary Americans suffer” in order to benefit the richest.