アメリカの
トランプ大統領は4
日、
重要政策として
掲げてきた
減税策を
盛り込んだ
法案に
署名し、
成立させました。
On the 4th, U.S. President Trump signed into law a bill that included tax cuts, which he had promoted as a key policy.
「大きく美しい1つの法案」と名付けられたこの法案には
▽トランプ政権1期目に実施した個人の所得減税の恒久化
▽飲食店の従業員などが受けとるチップや残業代への課税を一定期間免除することなどが盛り込まれていて、議会上院が1日、議会下院が3日、いずれも僅差で可決していました。
This bill, named the Big, Beautiful Single Bill, includes provisions such as making permanent the individual income tax cuts implemented during the first Trump administration, and temporarily exempting tips and overtime pay received by restaurant workers and others from taxation. The Senate passed the bill on the 1st, and the House passed it on the 3rd, both by a narrow margin.
トランプ大統領は4日、ホワイトハウスでこの法案に署名し、成立させました。
President Trump signed this bill into law at the White House on the 4th.
大規模な減税による財政悪化への懸念などから与党・共和党の一部の議員も反対の意向を示し、可決は難しいのではないかとの指摘も出ていましたが、減税法案を重要政策に掲げるトランプ大統領がみずから各議員に働きかけ可決にこぎ着けました。
Some members of the ruling Republican Party also expressed opposition due to concerns about the worsening fiscal situation caused by large-scale tax cuts, and there were suggestions that passing the bill would be difficult. However, President Trump, who has made the tax cut bill a key policy, personally lobbied lawmakers and succeeded in getting it passed.
成立した法律では
▽国境警備の資金を増額する一方
▽気候変動対策の事業廃止や縮小
▽低所得者向けの医療保険制度の厳格化などの歳出削減策が盛り込まれています。
In the enacted law, measures are included such as increasing funding for border security, abolishing or reducing climate change initiatives, and implementing spending cuts like tightening the medical insurance system for low-income individuals.
また連邦政府が借金できる金額、債務の上限を大きく引き上げる条項も含まれています。
It also includes a provision to significantly raise the debt ceiling, which is the amount the federal government can borrow.
一方、アメリカの議会予算局は法律によって10年間でおよそ3兆4000億ドル、日本円にして490兆円余り、財政赤字が拡大するとの試算を公表していて財政悪化への懸念も高まっています。
On the other hand, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office has released an estimate, as required by law, that the fiscal deficit will expand by approximately $3.4 trillion over the next ten years, which is more than 490 trillion yen, raising concerns about further fiscal deterioration.