Republican congressional leadership is now working in overdrive to write parts of their massive reconciliation bill and hold the necessary markups to get it passed by Memorial Day weekend.
It won’t be easy.
After wrapping a meeting Monday with the six Republicans in charge of reconciliation — including Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo and House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave reporters a slightly more conservative timeline.