NEWS 28 - The Jesstopian Senate is set to vote on the recent Inflation Reduction Act that was passed by the House on Wednesday. The Senate said that it was scheduled to vote on the bill this morning but concerns are growing that they may not have enough Senator support to get it passed.

The House Wednesday approved the bill in a vote of 299 to 212, with 85 Nationalists voting to support the bill. The bill was then sent to the House Transfer Committee who pushed the bill to the Senate Transfer Committee where leaders of the Senate approved the bill for a vote today.

The Senate chamber isn't it session, so we weren't able to get a comment as to when we can expect to hear the results of the vote. On Thursday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Larry Cofelt and Senate Minority Leader Harry Rodham announced that they would hold the vote today, but announced that they is a chance the vote gets delayed. Further, Senate control is held by the Nationalist Party, therefore it could be a long drawn out process before the Senates approves the act.

"We have a lot of work coming up tomorrow as we prepare to vote on the 2024 Inflation Reduction Act," said Majority Leader Larry Cofelt during a press conference yesterday. "The Senate must decisively choose whether the act passes or not, and we know that the House decisively voted for the act, and we are looking at that for guidance."

House Senate Minority Leader Harry Rodham said that the vote is essential to the continuing decline of the inflation, that has slowly crept its way down as President Laylin continues signing executive orders to push forward with cutting down the crippling inflation caused by policies of the Diester and McCallum administrations.

"We need this to pass to help with relieving economic strains on the wallets of Jesstopians nationwide," said Minority leader Harry Rodham during an interview on Wednesday. "If we can't get this act to pass Friday, Jesstopians will continue to suffer as they work 2, 3 or more jobs. It's not fair and we must get this inflation down. My hope is the Nationalists will put forward a bi-partisan effort to get this act passed like the House Nationalists did."

The vote must win majority support which means of the 80 senators, at least 41 Senators must support the bill and right now, it seems like all Republicans will support the bill, which gets them to 25 votes. They will need 16 Nationalists for it to pass.