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The US House of Representatives issued a budget decision calling for trillion dollars from taxes and spending, in a major victory for President Donald Trump as he seeks to enact comprehensive changes in fiscal policy.

The decision was issued by 217 votes to 215 after a campaign by Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson to push the Republican episodes to support Trump’s “beautiful draft law”.

The draft law, which will start another round of budget talks in the Senate, proposes an amount of $ 4.5 million in tax cuts, about $ 2 in spending cuts and allocating hundreds of billions of dollars to military security and border security over a decade.

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives said: “Today, Republicans in the House of Representatives conveyed Congress closer to the presentation of President Trump’s full agenda in America – and not only parts of it.”

Since Republicans carry a high -ranking majority in the House of Representatives, even a small number of opposition votes from within the party may endanger the draft law.

Three Republicans in the House of Representatives – Tim Porsket, Victoria Spartez and Varne Davidson – indicated that they would vote against him, but all of them fell behind the speaker. Thomas Massi was the only Republican to vote against him. Before voting, Massi posted on X: “If the Republican budget succeeds, the deficit is getting worse, not better.”

Budgets They are non -binding decisions that define financial goals. It refers to Congress committees the amount of increase or reduction of spending, but it does not set specific programs that must be targeted.

Once the Senate passes on the budget, Republicans in Congress can start a process known as “reconciliation” and eventually move legislation without democratic support to extend the tax discounts that were enacted during the first period of Trump in 2017.

The draft law guides the Energy and Trade Committee in the House of Representatives to reduce $ 880 billion in spending, a move that is widely considered to target the Medicaid health insurance program for low -income Americans. Likewise, the Agriculture Committee’s invitation to reduce spending by $ 230 billion aims to the food aid plan called the additional nutritional assistance program.

According to the non -party committee on the responsible federal budget, the new measures will add at least $ 2.8tn To the deficit by 2034.

“When they face billions of dollars in a deficit and debt climbing towards record levels, the legislators’ response is to pass a budget that allows themselves to add other trillion debt over the next decade,” said Maya McQuenes, chairman of the committee.

But Joshua Boltin, CEO of the Lobby Group, praised the business table, praised the “House of Representatives to advance the fiscal year 2025 budget resolution. The House of Representatives vote represents a pivotal moment in the Congress’ work to protect and enhance the economic benefits that are offered to tax reform for American companies, workers and families.”

The budget of the House of Representatives will also raise the roof of the debt by 4 Americans, which will temporarily remove a threat to the debt.

Democrats described the budget as a “stigma”. “It betrays the working families by reducing funding for the critical programs they depend on to help donor, such as Elon Musk, with trillion dollars in tax cuts to raise the deficit,” said the leaders of the new Democratic Alliance, a group of moderate Democratic lawmakers.

Johnson faced resistance from Republicans concerned with the potential impact on medical aid, as well as those who felt that the bill should go further in curbing in spending.

Party leaders defended the cuts, and they insisted that they would enhance economic growth, as well as other Trump measures such as definitions, which increases the limit to the deficit. Independent analysts oppose the extent of economic gains to increase the deficit.

The draft law clip comes at a time when Congress leaders are fighting to pass legislation to avoid the government’s closure on March 14.

Participated in additional reports by James Politi in Washington