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Senate Republicans deal with obstacles with tax and health provisions

Democrats criticize bill as benefiting wealthy Americans

Rural alert of negative impact from supplier tax cuts

By Bo Erickson, David Morgan and Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress scrambled on Thursday to fix nettlesome tax and healthcare provisions in their sweeping tax-cut and costs costs on Thursday as President Donald Trump pushed them to pass it by a July 4 deadline.
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Trump plans to promote the $2.4 trillion plan at an afternoon White House event that will include truck motorists, firemens, ranchers and other workers who say they would take advantage of the costs.

But Senate Republicans have yet to produce their version of their legislation ahead of a possible weekend vote, and the general shape of the expense appeared more uncertain after a nonpartisan referee ruled that several health care arrangements breached the complex procedure Republicans are conjuring up to bypass Democratic opposition.

Those elements jointly represented more than $250 billion in healthcare cuts, according to Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. Democrats have actually lined up against the bill, representing it as a wasteful giveaway to the wealthiest Americans.

It was uncertain whether Republicans might opt to remodel the costs to comply with the complicated budget guidelines, as they have actually currently finished with some elements, or seek to bypass the choice by the Senate parliamentarian.

The costs encompasses much of Trump's domestic program. It would extend his 2017 tax cuts, increase migration enforcement, absolutely no out green-energy rewards and tighten food and health safety-net programs.

Republicans who manage both chambers of Congress broadly support the bundle, and have actually currently passed it out of the House of Representatives. But they can pay for to lose no more than 3 votes in either chamber, and they stay at chances over several provisions-- significantly a proposed tax break for state and regional tax payments and a tax on health care service providers that some states utilize to boost the federal government's contribution to the Medicaid health strategy.

The bill would restrict those "company taxes," which nonpartisan guard dogs portray as an accounting trick that drives up Medicaid costs. But rural healthcare facilities and other health providers alert that those cuts could require them to downsize operations or fail. (Writing by Andy Sullivan