Items Tagged with 'budget reconciliation process'

Congressional Republicans return from a one-week recess under pressure to reach agreement on a budget reconciliation plan, while the Trump administration will listen to concerns about its push to promote domestic shipbuilding.

The House GOP kept enough Republicans in line to advance a budget plan that’s aimed at passing all of President Donald Trump’s spending and tax priorities in one giant package. But House and Senate Republicans are far apart on both strategy and details for the budget reconciliation process. 

House GOP leaders this week will try to hold their narrow majority together on a sweeping budget blueprint that would require at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, which face resistance from some moderate Republicans as well as some in the Senate GOP.

Republicans pushed their skinny budget plan through the Senate early Friday after a nearly 10-hour vote-a-rama that allowed Democrats to force votes on a variety of concerns, including food costs, bird flu and the recent mass firings of government workers. The Senate debate highlighted some major GOP fault lines over spending cuts.

Senate Republicans are forging ahead this week with a budget strategy that punts the debate about expiring tax cuts until later in the year.

Congressional Republicans are barreling toward a showdown over how much to cut taxes and spending as the Senate and House set to take up rival fiscal 2025 budget resolutions. The Senate could take up its budget plan this week.