On Thursday, US President Donald Trump lashed out at congressional Republicans for failing to quickly approve his priority legislation, telling them on social media that if the bill failed, they would lose MAGA votes.
Republicans in the House of Representatives appeared to be moving forward with Trump’s massive tax-cut and spending bill on Wednesday, but progress stalled when a handful of holdouts refused to vote for a bill that nonpartisan analysts say will add $3.4 trillion to the nation’s $36.2 trillion debt over the next decade. The holdouts might modify their votes and support the president because Republican leaders kept the vote open while negotiating. Trump said that the law would boost economic development and was popular among his MAGA constituency.
The proposal includes the majority of the president’s key domestic priorities: extending his 2017 tax cuts, reducing health and food safety net programs, supporting Trump’s immigration crackdown, and eliminating several green-energy subsidies. It also contains a $5 trillion increase in the nation’s debt ceiling, which legislators must address in the coming months to avoid a catastrophic default.
As a marathon session on Wednesday continued into the early morning hours of Thursday, Trump and his friends were upset that the measure had failed to cross a procedural obstacle, with voting still ongoing in the US House of Representatives.
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