Senate Republicans have been optimistic for a while now that they could approve a budget for their reconciliation bill by the middle of this week. That’s virtually impossible at this point.
Senators are instead facing the prospect of staying in session into the weekend to work on the House-adopted budget, after their colleagues on the other side of the Capitol headed home on a Tuesday afternoon.
But more than just questions about timing, many GOP senators are still in the dark on key pieces of the budget that have yet to be resolved.