Posted on 07/01/2025 12:22:08 AM PDT by RandFan
Three conservatives — Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) — are pressing for the adoption of an amendment that would cut an additional $313m in federal Medicaid spending.
And at least two of them, Johnson and Scott, won’t say if they’ll vote for final passage if the amendment doesn’t succeed.
The amendment, which would stop the 9-to-1 federal match for Medicaid enrollees who are “able-bodied” and without dependent children in states that expanded the program, is unlikely to be adopted.
Multiple Republican senators, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), have pushed hard against the Medicaid cuts already in the bill.
“I think that this effort to cut Medicaid funding is a mistake,” Hawley told reporters over the weekend.
“Frankly, my party needs to do some soul-searching. If you want to be a working-class party, you’ve got to deliver to working-class people. You cannot take away health care from working people,” he said.
At least two moderates, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), haven’t yet said whether they will vote to pass the bill as they press for major changes.
Collins has offered an amendment to create a new 39.6 percent tax bracket for individuals who earn more than $25 million annually and couples who earn more than $50 million.
Her amendment would allocate the money raised to double the size of a rural hospital relief fund from $25 billion to $50 billion.
Murkowski, meanwhile, is planning to offer an amendment to slow down the phaseout of wind and solar tax credits.
The Alaska senator was spotted in a floor huddle with Thune and Utah Sen. John Curtis (R), who shares her concern about the quick phaseout of clean energy subsidies, during one of the amendment votes.
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I dont think Freepers will like the final bill much. A new tax bracket from Sen. Collins?
Update:
The Senate voted early Tuesday morning to defeat an amendment sponsored by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to create a new top marginal tax rate for the nation’s wealthiest income earners and use the money to double the size of a proposed rural hospital relief fund from $25 billion to $50 billion.
>> a new top marginal tax rate
because 37% isn’t enough for the $600k plus bracket
I’m completely lost to what’s in this monster now
They completely watered down the 2nd Amendment provisions so many voted Republican for. On social media they’ve sunk the ship that brought them to this place. Midterms are going to be a slaughter. A big serious WTF????
How many people would the 39 percent at a salary 50 million a year would that affect?
Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) are hard “no” votes.
how convenient randfand left out this information from the article
The longer the debate goes on, the more unpopular the bill gets too
Some food for thought from @CynicalPublius on X.
Long, so I’ll just post the link.
Just read it.
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1931166853688422516
Then Deep State is doing its work well, isn’t it...
Trump needs to shut down this political BBB jercle cirk and shut off the government completely. Thats’s what the Wilson Football Heads like Skyhook Hakeem, and Fartakiss Booker and the Pressley squaw want for their constituents.
Steve Bannon will be happy. He’s in favor of a 40% rate for “millionaires and billionaires.”
How many people would the 39 percent at a salary 50 million a year would that affect?
About 1,000 people who earn more the $25,000,000 per year. Not sure there are 1,000 people who earn that per year.
it affects those households with a $600k+ AGI
That’s why I’m not sure New Yorkers will mind him saying this.
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