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The pressure that has been applied to the system all this time has been condensed in just over two weeks in unprecedented milestones: Trump bombed Iran, ignoring the critical voices of the foundations and showing absolute control over the Pentagon, and then saw the Supreme Court limit the power of federal judges to block their executive orders.
All in all, while NATO members kneel over their 5% demand in defense – who also wants to be buying US weapons – and Secretary General of the Alliance Mark Rutte said “Papi”. And now, the King’s Thinks have been even more reinforced by passing through the funnel a law that had been stuck in the Senate at the beginning of the week and was not so clear that it could be passed by July 4.
“Has anyone ever had two better weeks?” Trump said on Thursday evening, after Congress approved his law for the minimum. The fiscal plan was approved in the House of Representatives with 218 votes in favor and 214 votes against, after passing on Tuesday to the Senate, thanks to the vote of the tiebreaker of Vice President JD Vance. In the final session, the Republicans could only afford three casualties between their ranks, and finally, only two congressmen have been disassociated from the party line.
Republicons against
“ I voted not in the final step because this would significantly increase US budget deficits in the short term and will adversely affect all Americans due to sustained inflation and high interest rates, ” the Thomas Massie, Kentucky Republican representative, and one of the leading opponents of legislation, published on Thursday. Trump and his team are already working to make him out.
It was not so clear that the text was approved, as the chamber had initially gave a project that provided $ 2.4 trillion debt, and the upper house had returned a new version to it at 3.3 trillion. To make this possible, Trump spent the whole week in Washington, pressing the Discol legislators to move the law to advance.
The one who also played a key role in convincing the Republican ranks was Russell Vought, the current head of the White House Budget Office and one of the architects of the 2025 Project 2025. Vought was the brain in the shadow of the Government Efficiency Department Department (in English), which was led by Elon Musk and now that he is no longer there.
Purge of the official
The approval of the current fiscal plan firing public spending demonstrates how, in essence, the function of the DOGE was not to reduce the supposedly unnecessary public spending, but a tool to purge civil servants. Vought was already explained in his Chapter of the 2025 Project, which analyzed how the President could use executive orders and other tools to get out of the middle of the institutional brakes. For example, career and long -haul officials who were not willing to obey orders.
Apart from extending the 2017 tax sales, with a total cost of about 4.5 trillion, Trump will also increase the budget for the management of the border and the army. In fact, more than $ 30 billion will go to the Customs Immigration and Control Service (ICE) to hire more agents, pay for transport centers and maintain detention centers.
The injection occurs at a time when immigration agents are increasingly aggressive and arbitrary shakes against the migrant population-the city of Los Angeles has become the main scenario-and just as the buildings to hold migrants are on the edge of their capacity.
The reverse of all this is that more than 11 million American will run out of medical coverage by 2034 thanks to the President’s new law, which cuts about a trillion dollars from Medicaid and reduces food help for the most vulnerable.
