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27-05-2025

If you think every Republican on Capitol Hill is onboard with President Donald Trump's domestic policy megabill, think again.
The sprawling bill, which takes on tax cuts, immigration policy, and domestic issues, narrowly passed the majority-Republican U.S. House. And it's already hitting speed bumps in the U.S. Senate.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, has said he wants to pass the bill by the July 4 holiday. And Republicans can only afford to lose three GOP votes to pass it by a simple majority and likely send it back to the House for more tinkering before it finally heads to Trump's desk.
From The Washington Post, here are the seven big places where GOP lawmakers are split over the bill:
This was a serious bone of contention in the House and is shaping up to be a similar fight in the Senate, according to The Post.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has said she's worried about kicking Medicaid beneficiaries who are unable to work out of the joint state/federal program, according to The Post. She also has concerns about the bill's impact on rural hospitals.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has said she's worried that her state will have a hard time imposing new work requirements because of outdated Medicaid payment systems, the newspaper reported.
'There are provisions in there that are very, very, very challenging if not impossible for us to implement,' Murkowski said, according to The Post.
This is another big one. U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, who chairs the Senate's Finance Committee, wants to make permanent several business tax cuts that the House's version of the bill would allow to expire. That's also a priority for Thune, according to The Post.
'We believe that permanence is the way to create economic certainty, and thereby attract and incentivize capital investment in this country that creates those good-paying jobs and gets our economy growing and generates more government revenue,' Thune said last week, according to The Post.
House Republicans from high-tax states refused to vote for the bill unless their constituents could deduct more in state and local taxes on their federal returns. The issue is pretty much a non-starter in the Senate, according to The Post. And some want to strip the language from the bill.
'I don't know why we'd give a huge tax cut to rich people who live in California, New Jersey, and New York,' U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, said.
The House bill would scrap tax credits for wind, solar, and geothermal energy approved by Democrats in 2022 unless companies start construction within 60 days of the bill becoming law.
Murkowski and U.S. Sens. John Curtis, R-Utah, Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, and Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, have told Thune they have concerns about such an approach.
Tillis suggested that he would push for a more gradual phaseout to avoid blindsiding businesses, The Post reported.
'If we don't do that, then we're no better than Joe Biden when he canceled the XL pipeline,' he said last week, referring to Biden's 2021 decision to scrap a long-planned crude oil pipeline. 'We've got to figure out a way to strike that balance.'
A cadre of Republican senators, U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Roger Marshall of Kansas, and Ted Cruz of Texas, are pushing for deeper spending cuts than what's included in the House-passed bill.
This one is serious inside baseball. This rule, named for the late Sen. Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, limits what can be included in Senate bills under the reconciliation process, which Republicans are using to head off a Democratic filibuster.
Republican Senate staffers are going through the legislation to look for any potential violations, according to The Post. Republicans will strip out violations, while Democrats can challenge anything that runs afoul of it, according to The Post.
The House's version of the bill temporarily increases the child tax credit to $2,500. But Missouri's Hawly wants to make it more generous — 'I'd like it to be double that, but anything higher,' he said, according to The Post.
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, wants her fellow Republicans to expand two child care tax breaks. And the list, which also includes scrapping the estate tax, only gets longer from there.
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