This could be the week Senate Republicans finally move on the House’s budget resolution. But House Republicans, already cranky with the slow pace in the other chamber, have a warning: Change too much and the deal might be off.
Republicans have been working for months to come to an agreement on a budget resolution that would unlock the reconciliation process, realistically the only way to pass much of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. In Trump’s ideal world, the reconciliation package would be jam-packed with policy changes on energy, defense, immigration, taxes and more.
Speaker Mike Johnson said at the Capitol last week that the bill will be “the largest, most consequential piece of legislation in decades, maybe one of the most in all of the history of Congress.”