Senate Republicans adopted a budget resolution this weekend that lawmakers think can largely be the blueprint for reconciliation. But before lawmakers can celebrate taking a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump’s agenda, they’ll have to resolve an intra-party stand-off with their colleagues across Capitol Hill.
House Republicans are voicing profound doubts that they can pass the Senate’s budget, citing frustrations with the other chamber’s comparatively limp deficit reduction targets and the upper chamber’s use of an accounting tactic that some in the House GOP are denouncing as “intellectually fraudulent.”
Given both chambers need to adopt identical budget resolutions before they can draft the text of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” any resistance from the House GOP could incite significant delays toward extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and enacting other conservative priorities.