Today’s notice: Breaking: Person honestly enjoys the pizza in the House cafeteria. The ICE-ification of the entire government. But first: Budget moves and hunting Indiana for tea leaves.
What Year Is It Anyway?
It’s a real make-or-break week for reconciliation watchers as Senate Republicans may finally move on the House’s budget resolution to meet their ambitious timeline. But there’s a predictable standoff emerging between the two chambers, with House leadership warning that their budget bill can’t change too much or nothing will pass at all, given Speaker Mike Johnson’s microscopic margins, NOTUS’ Hill team reports this morning.
Sources told NOTUS that while nothing is set in stone yet, the Senate could start adopting a compromise budget on Wednesday, but the process could draw out into Friday or Saturday. But Senate Majority Leader John Thune wants to get this done in order to unlock the reconciliation process.