Description: The US Senate, following a long weekend of reading and debating has passed the tax cutting and spending bill proposed by President Donald Trump. The vote was hanging on a knife’s edge as Vice – President Vance tipped the scales towards the passage of the bill which would now be subjected to voting in the US House of Representatives, where Speaker Mike Johnson stated the House has already approved the bill in the preliminary voting cycle. Three members of the Republican Party have sided with the Democratic camp in voting against the bill and managed to push the Democratic party camp towards forcing some amendments into the language and text of the bill without any serious consequences to the bill’s final form or purpose. The bill, set to become law in the US, includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts from government initiatives such as green energy tax credits, food stamps and healthcare insurance covered by the Medicaid program. The spending part of the bill would repurpose those funds towards investments in Trump’s immigration and mass deportation policy initiatives, strengthening military capacities and reiterating the country’s energy policy towards drilling oil and mining coal.
Impact: The Senate has predictably voted in favor of incorporating the tax cutting and spending bill as part of the US legislature which would cause immense negative reverberations throughout multiple crucial and ailing sectors. The House of Representatives voting procedure would only follow suit with the Senate’s decision while putting sectors in the US such as healthcare insurance, green energy projects and initiatives under substantial strain over the cutting of funds. The planned tax reconstruction would see repressive mechanisms getting enforced such as ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agency and the US military potentially causing civic upheaval alike the anti – immigration protests which gathered nationwide attention. Under the Trump administration, the US is experiencing an unprecedented constitutional reconstruction which is focused on accumulation of power and political capital towards small centers of governance while strengthening President Trump’s conservative and isolationist vision as to what kind of a role the US would have on the global stage going forward.