Washington – Senate Republicans are advancing with their own budget plan to finance the agenda of President Trump despite a request from the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, A wait And let the lower camera take the lead.
Senator Lindsey Graham, republican of South Carolina, launched a 61 pages budget resolution On Friday, establish the basis for the Senate to then approve a draft Budget Reconciliation Law focused on border security, defense and energy priorities.
“This budget resolution increases a process that will give the President Trump’s team the money they need to ensure the border and deport criminals, and make the United States strong and more independent of energy,” said Graham, who directs the Senate Budget Committee, in a statement.
The resolution would direct the Judicial Committee and the National Security Committee to each of the $ 175 billion in additional expenses. The Armed Services Committee could propose $ 150 billion in new expenses, while the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation would be assigned $ 20 billion and the Environment and Public Works Committee of $ 1 billion.
Several other committees would be instructed to find at least $ 1 billion in cuts.
According to Graham, the resolution would increase annual expense by $ 85.5 billion, which would be paid for the same amount in expenses.
Graham announced that his committee will meet on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss and vote on the resolution, which establishes a deadline of March 7 for the committees to make their proposals.
“The Senate Republicans are ready to shoot”, the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, from Dakota del Sur wrote.
According to the budgetary reconciliation process, Senate Republicans can avoid the 60 -vot threshold required in the upper chamber and approve the bill without any democratic support.
Graham released the plan before the Senate Republicans with Trump on Friday night in Mar-a-Lago and one day after the Republicans of the House of Representatives spent hours at the White House trying to gather Your own frame.
Republicans from the House of Representatives have disagree with their Senate colleagues, preferring to approve an important bill that also includes extending the tax cuts promulgated during Mr. Trump’s first mandate and potentially a debt roof suspension. Senate Republicans believe that tax legislation should be part of a second bill. But Republicans of the House of Representatives believe that putting everything in a single bill gives him the best opportunity to approve his divided conference.
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said Friday that the camera frame could be launched this weekend.
“The expectation is that we will mark a budget at the beginning of next week,” he said, adding that he and Graham had been playing on the phone for a day and a half.
Johnson said he would be watching the Super Bowl in Mr. Trump’s suite in New Orleans.
“This will be one of the great discussion issues,” he said.
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