공화당 강경파 하원의원 5명이 16일(현지시각) 하원 예산위원회에서 도널드 트럼프 미 대통령이 "아름다운 법안"이라고 부른 세금 감면 및 지출 삭감 패키지를 부결시켰다.
뉴시스 보도에 따르면, 이들은 트럼프 대통령의 법안을 지지하기 전 먼저 메디케이드와 바이든 시대의 녹색 에너지 세제 혜택에 대한 지출 삭감이 이뤄져야 한다고 주장하며, 세금 감먄만으로도 36조 달러(5경218조원)의 국가 부채가 증가할 것이라고 경고한다.
이들의 반란으로 찬성 16대 반대 21로 트럼프 대통령의 세금 감면 및 지출 삭감 패키지가 부결됨에 따라 마이크 존슨 하원의장은 다음주 이 법안을 승인을 다시 추진하기로 했다. 예산위원회는 18일에 다시 소집될 예정이다. 의원들은 주말에지 협상을 계속할 것이라고 다짐했다.
칩 로이(공화, 텍사스주) 하원의원은 "뭔가 바뀌지 않으면 지지하지 않을 것"이라고 말했다.
As it stands, the bill proposes tripling what's currently a $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deduction, increasing it to $30,000 for joint filers with incomes up to $400,000 a year.
Rep. Nick LaLota, one of the New York lawmakers leading the SALT effort, said they have proposed a deduction of $62,000 for single filers and $124,000 for joint filers.
The conservatives and the New Yorkers are at odds, each jockeying as Johnson labors to pass the package from the House by Memorial Day and send it onto the Senate.
At its core, the sprawling package extends the existing income tax cuts that were approved during Trump's first term, in 2017, and adds new ones that the president campaigned on in 2024, including no taxes on tips, overtime pay and some auto loans.
It increases some tax breaks for middle-income earners, including a bolstered standard deduction of $32,000 for joint filers and a temporary $500 boost to the child tax credit, bringing it to $2,500.
It also provides an infusion of $350 billion for Trump's deportation agenda and to bolster the Pentagon.
To offset more than $5 trillion in lost revenue, the package proposes rolling back other tax breaks, namely the green energy tax credits approved as part of President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. Some conservatives want those to end immediately.
The package also seeks to cover the costs by slashing more than $1 trillion from health care and food assistance programs over the course of a decade, in part by imposing work requirements on able-bodied adults.
Certain Medicaid recipients would need to engage in 80 hours a month of work or other community options to receive health care. Older Americans receiving food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, would also see the program's current work requirement for able-bodied participants without dependents extended to include those ages 55-64. States would also be required to shoulder a greater share of the program's cost.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates at least 7.6 million fewer people with health insurance and about 3 million a month fewer SNAP recipients with the changes.
While Republicans insist the package will pay for itself, partly with economic growth, outside budget analysts are skeptical and say it will add trillions of dollars to the nation's deficits and debt.
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