Senate Republicans are struggling to push Trump’s budget bill in the final

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Anna Faguy

BBC News, Washington

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JD Vance arrived in Capitol at Dawn and is likely to play a key role in the fate of Trump’s bill

US senators have spent more than 24 hours negotiating a mega-bod change of taxes and expenses that seem to be stagnant without enough votes to pass.

Four Republicans in the Senate said they could not support the legislation on almost 1000 pages, as it is, but with a thin control margin the party should win only one senator.

After the bill passes the Senate, he will have to return to the House of Representatives, where he faces another difficult battle, as Republicans control the Chamber with only a few votes.

While President Donald Trump said earlier to the congress that he wanted the law of his desk until July 4, on Tuesday, he admitted that it would be “very difficult” to achieve this period.

The Republicans seem to have lost the support of four Republicans so far: Susan Collins of Maine, Tom Tilis in North Carolina, Lisa Murkovski in Alaska and Rand Paul on Kentucky.

As they can only have three defects, Vice-President JD Vance arrived on the Capitol hill shortly after 6:00 EST (11:00 GMT) to deliver votes to destruction.

He has helped to make a narrow margin amendment and is expected to play a key role in the fate of the bill.

The process of amendments is completed and the management of the Republican Senate talks and negotiates with its disagreements in order to receive the required number of votes. Leadership will not bring the bill to a final vote until they have the necessary numbers. It is unclear when this can happen.

The bill – essential for Trump’s agenda for the second term – will extend the major tax reductions that the president introduced during his first term.

To compensate for this loss of revenue, Republicans want to reduce costs from different programs, including healthcare for lower-income Americans and food subsidies. But in the Senate, Republicans do not agree where these abbreviations should come from.

Previously, Trump requested the Republican -controlled Congress to send him a final version of the bill to enter the law by Friday.

But after more than 24 hours a debate on the amendments to the bill called the vote-A-Rama, which emphasizes clear divisions on the bill, it softens its tone within 4 July.

“I would be glad to do July 4, but I think it’s very difficult to make July 4 …. I would say maybe July 4 or somewhere around,” Trump told reporters as he left for the White House.

In May, the Chamber of Representatives accepted its version of a budget bill with a voice margin. When the legislation arrived in the Senate, the Republicans made many changes to it.

So when the bill passes the Senate, it will have to return to the House of Representatives for another voting, where the Republicans are expected to have another battle of work.

The Democrats in both chambers do not support the bill, and in the Senate they tried to throw some obstacles along the path of its passage.

Watch: Why the Republican Senator Tom Tilis will not vote for Trump’s bill

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