Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced on Tuesday that Senate Republicans will “hold” any budget reconciliation framework passed by the House to use as a potential back-up plan to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September. Thune told reporters that Senate Republicans will not act immediately on any budget resolution passed by the House in case they need to use the budget reconciliation vehicle to pass a government funding stopgap in September. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5981597-senate-republicans-hold-house-budget-resolution/ #Senate #Republicans #GOP #Trump #SaveAmericaAct #Thune #Congress
House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a budget framework for a roughly $95 billion reconciliation package that would provide funding for defense, farm aid and state efforts to implement voter ID requirements in elections. The resolution marks the opening salvo in Republicans’ effort to use the budget reconciliation process one final time to advance key GOP priorities while they still control both chambers of Congress and the White House. Because reconciliation bills can pass the Senate with a simple majority, the process would allow Republicans to sidestep a Democratic filibuster. Read More: #congress #trump #mikejohnson #politics #iran
Republicans are trying to assemble a third party-line package ahead of an August recess, the push would give the GOP one final opportunity to cement major pieces of President Trump’s legislative agenda before the midterms. #Congress #GOP #Politics
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and GOP leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as time ticks for Congress to pass its legislative priorities, including passing a long-term extension of the government's warrantless spying powers and a spending bill to fund immigration enforcement. The House is set to take up a $69.5 billion budget reconciliation package that would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through 2029 after it passed the Senate on Friday. Johnson will need near-unanimous support on the measure, which is not expected to get any Democratic votes. #gop #mikejohnson @house
The Senate voted early Friday morning to pass a $69.5 billion budget reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029, overcoming the concerns of several Republicans who were upset the bill did not include language barring the Trump administration from creating a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to pay MAGA allies. The legislation passed 52-47, taking Republicans one big step closer to ensuring that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol are funded through the end of President Trump’s second term. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5911411-senate-passes-reconciliation-immigration-bill/ #Senate #Schumer #Thune #Trump #AntiWeaponizationFund #DOJ #MAGA
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and GOP leaders will speak with reporters on Wednesday morning as the deadline to pass legislation to fund immigration enforcement and border patrol inches closer. Both chambers of Congress are rushing to finalize a budget package ahead by June 1 through the reconciliation process, which would allow them to bypass a Senate filibuster. Republicans in the lower chamber have sought to move their bill by the end of the week, when lawmakers are scheduled for recess. Their comments also come as the GOP looks to keep its House majority amid redistricting battles across the U.S. ahead of the November midterms. #gop #mikejohnson #house
House Republican leaders will speak with reporters Wednesday morning as pressure mounts for them to pass legislation to fund immigration enforcement — which they aim to do through the budget reconciliation process. #lisamcclain #house #gop
House Republican leaders will speak with reporters Wednesday morning as pressure mounts for them to pass legislation to fund immigration enforcement — which they aim to do through the budget reconciliation process. #lisamcclain #house #gop
Congress returns from its one-week recess to a packed agenda, diving back into many of the same high-stakes issues that dominated lawmakers’ attention last month. Among the most pressing on GOP leaders’ to-do list is passing the bill to fund immigration enforcement, which they aim to advance through the budget reconciliation process that bypasses the need for Democratic buy-in. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5870629-congress-reconciliation-immigration-fisa-farm-bill/ #Congress #FISA #FarmBill #Trump #GOP #ReconciliationBill #Immigration #ICE
The Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee on Monday night released legislative text for the $72 billion budget reconciliation bill that would bypass Democratic opposition to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through 2029. The committees released the legislation after the Senate and House passed a joint budget resolution last month unlocking the special budget reconciliation process that will allow them to move funding for immigration enforcement without conceding to Democratic demands for reforms that have hung up the funding for months. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5863729-senate-reconciliation-bill-ice-border-patrol/ #ICE #BorderPatrol #WhiteHouseBallroom…
