Tensions In MAGAland: GOP Senate Stalls The One Big Beautiful Bill!

The GOP is stung out on ignorant power.

“One Big Beautiful Bill Act”

Republicans are caught between a rock and a hard place. They are trying to ram through a massive spending bill which gives tax cuts to billionaires and massive cuts to the safety net. It also allocate more funding to the military and Israel.

It includes funding for the border wall, work requirements for Medicaid, work requirements for food stamps, rollbacks on clean energy tax credits, raising the debt limit by $4 trillion and pork projects for several Republicans.

It also includes a child tax credit for people to have more children.

President Donald J. Trump praised the Republicans in the House for passing the bill. Now he is pressuring Republicans in the Senate to pass this bill.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is already opposed to it and he's not alone.

About 27 of 53 Republican senators strongly oppose the Trump bill.

Did you know Americans making under $50,000 will not get a tax break?

Enacted via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or TCJA, of 2017 is a $10,000 limit on the deduction for state and local taxes, known as SALT. Filers must itemize deductions to claim it.

The bill would raise the SALT cap to $40,000 in 2025 and phase out the tax break for incomes over $500,000. The SALT limit and income phaseout would increase annually by 1% from 2026 through 2033.

Before TCJA, the SALT deduction was unlimited, but the so-called alternative minimum tax curbed the benefit for some wealthier Americans.

The bill passed in the House with 215 votes to 214. Reps. Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) voted with all Democrats in oppositions.

Dubbed by Trump as the "big, beautiful bill," the legislation would extend the president's expiring tax cuts passed in 2017, and it includes an infusion of money to expand the military, beef up border security and carry out his mass deportation plans. It would also fulfill two of Trump's campaign promises: eliminating taxes on tips and overtime work.

Lisa Murkowski and six senators could sink the One Big Beautiful Bill.

The bill would also slash spending in other areas, including hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, while rescinding a series of clean energy tax credits passed by Democrats in 2022. And it would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion.

Taking a victory lap, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters that the massive package had been on the verge of collapse at times.

"There’s a lot of prayer that brought this together. I’m just going to be very blunt about it. There was a few moments over the last week when it looked like the thing might fall apart," he said, flanked by his GOP leadership team and committee chairs. "And I went to the little chapel over here and got on my knees and prayed that these guys would have wisdom and stamina and discernment.

"And that’s the secret here — and teamwork and mutual respect that everybody has for one another, and I think that’s what defines the Republican Party," he continued. "It’s a great day to be an American. It’s great to be a Republican."

But Johnson acknowledged there is still a long way to go. He had lunch with Senate Republicans this week and said he has encouraged them “to modify this as little as possible." The House would have to approve any changes the Senate makes.

GOP congressional leaders have said they want to send the final bill to Trump's desk for his signature by July 4.

"Now, it’s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work, and send this Bill to my desk AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! There is no time to waste," Trump said on Truth Social.