That Republican senators voted against Trump’s agenda bill and why

The tax cut and expenses bill of President Donald Trump reached the cable when the republican leaders of the Senate hastened to put all the members of the Republican party before the final vote on Tuesday.

In the end, three members of the long-date Republican Party, Susan Collins de Maine, Rand Paul de Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina voted, forced Vice President JD Vance to break a 50-50 draw.

Each explained their reasons to stir the president.

Susan Collins

One of the mostly observed closely as the vote was approaching was Collins, who had been in the fence due to the medical cuts proposed by the bill.

“Approximately 400,000 main, almost a third of the state population, depend on this program,” he said in a statement after voting. “A dramatic reduction in the future financing of Medicaid, approximately $ 5.9 billion in Maine in the next 10 years, could threaten not only the access of the main to medical care, but also the very existence of several of the rural hospitals of our state.”

Collins added that the bill had “additional problems.”

“Fiscal credits on which energy entrepreneurs have been based should have been gradually eliminated so as not to waste the work that has already been put in these new innovative projects and prevent them from completing,” he said.

Republican senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska voted in favor of the bill despite reservations.

Murkowski was in the fence for weeks, but became a key vote after Collins rejected the bill.

“I fought powerfully with him [bill’s] Impact on the most vulnerable in this country, “he told reporters.

“Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests,” he said.

Thom Tillis

Tillis has been extremely vocal in his opposition since the weekend, calling attention for a passionate speech on the floor citing medical dispositions that, according to him, would damage his voters in North Carolina.

During a meeting of the Conference of the Republican Party of closed doors two weeks ago, it is reported that Tillis declared that Medicaid’s coverage for more than 600,000 Northern Carolinians would be at risk under the proposal of the Senate and asked their colleagues to consider how politics would affect their own states, even provide specific data of the State in a source.

“I simply encouraged other members to go to their states and just measure how … take a look at the proposed cuts and tell me whether or not it can absorb it in the normal course of business, and in many cases, you will discover that you cannot,” Tillis told the journalists of the Capitol last week.

Trump lashed out at Tillis on his social media platform and the press and threatened with the primary challenges. Tillis announced on Saturday that he would not seek re -election.

Rand Paul

Paul, a firm defender of maintaining the expense and ceiling of the debt under control, published in X that he wanted the bill to include a 90% reduction on the ceiling.

“There are no brands. Without brochures. Only a real fiscal reform. I was not looking for favors. I was not in horses. I was fighting for the American people and against our out of control,” he said.

“In a nutshell: I offered my vote for fiscal sanity. Congress chose to sell to taxpayers. Only once the bill will be published, we will know what the real price was,” Paul added.