Thun's power game to promote Trump's agenda

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Washington - The Republicans in the Senate announced on Wednesday that they will progress with their preferred law strategy to get Donald Trump's agenda going. This only happens hours after the president has supported a completely different approach.

legal conflicts and strategic decisions

This test of power by the majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, indicates a dramatic conflict with the spokesman for the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, when the house returns next week. The party leaders try to achieve the ambitious political goals of the White House despite a historically narrow distance in the congress. Both chambers have to agree on an identical approach to unlock the special powers that enable Trump to say goodbye to his agenda without the threat of a filibuster in the Senate - and all of this in the face of critical deadlines, such as the expiry of Trump's tax relief later.

support and resistance within the party

"President Trump prefers a great, beautiful law. I also have a plan B here," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and chairman of the Senate budget committee. "I sit on the fact that the house comes together and adopt a large, beautiful law that corresponds to Trump's tax agenda. At the moment, the tax agent is to make tax relief permanently, and the law of the house does not."

Different approaches between the Senate and House of Representatives

On Wednesday,

Thune said that he is planning to continue preparing for the first part of Trump's Agenda this week - a budget that shows the Senate to adopt measures for border security and energy production. This is done, although Trump himself has supported the significantly more comprehensive approach of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, which includes a variety of plans to adopt tax benefits as well as a temporary increase in the debt limit and trillions of reductions in federal programs.

criticism and internal tensions

The Republicans in the House of Representatives have declared that they have to bundle everything in a single law in order not to miss important deadlines such as those for the tax reform or the spring-up limit. However, the leadership of the Senate Republicans emphasizes that it is primarily a matter of quickly helping Trump to success and providing him with funds for his priorities.

The internal dispute of the Republicans, who has been going on for months, affects more than just tactics. He is a sign of the concern of many Republicans, especially in the Senate that Trump's entire agenda may not get through in the Chaotic House of Representatives. This becomes an early test for how the comparatively inexperienced leaders of the Republicans, Thun and Johnson, can bundle their extremely short majorities in order to work together with a strengthened Trump and his aggressive plans for redesigning Washington.

The reaction to different budgets

Some members of the conference, including Sen. Josh Hawley from Missouri, said, in astonishment, about Thunes's decision to advance, especially with regard to the hours of voting on a draft budget that Trump has not even supported. The Senate will begin this marathon vote on Thursday evening, which is expected to take until Friday morning.

"To be honest, I am a little perplex about what we do," said Hawley, adding that he was not ready to vote for the household as long as he did not receive "some insurance" from the president that Trump supported him. "It seems a little bizarre to me. I can't quite understand what we are doing here."

The influence of Trump's support

Trump himself spoke out for the comprehensive approach of the Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday and praised Johnson's measure. "The resolution of the house is implementing my full America First Agenda, everything, not just parts of it!" Trump wrote on Truth on Truth and asked both chambers to say goodbye to the version of the house.

The GOP senators warned that their law was a kind of insurance for Trump. "We all heard (Trump), but we won't put our hands in our laps," said Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama. "We will do something so that if their plan fails, we have prepared something."

CNN reported that Vice President JD Vance asked the Republican senators in a one -hour meeting in the Capitol questions about the budget and the debt limit and gave the senators the impression that Trump could support the progress of the Senate. The pressure on the members grows to gather behind a uniform strategy in order to optimally use the remaining time before important deadlines.