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Senate Republicans are planning to take one other crack on the price range reconciliation course of after narrowly passing President Donald Trump’s “huge, stunning invoice” earlier this month.
The $3.3 trillion legislative behemoth, which completely prolonged lots of the provisions of the president’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and included reforms and work necessities for Medicaid and meals help applications, and billions in spending for protection and border safety, solely handed the Senate with the help of Vice President JD Vance.
Now, lawmakers are eying one other shot on the grueling course of.
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Sen. Rick Scott is looking for an additional reconciliation invoice. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)
Sen. Ron Johnson, one of many key holdouts that ultimately backed the invoice, stated he gained a good quantity of confidence from the White Home, Trump and Senate GOP management that Republicans would “have a second chunk of the apple.”
“I feel I fairly properly have a dedication,” the Wisconsin Republican stated. “They are going to do this, and we will set a course of, line by line, program by program.”
“One more reason why I undoubtedly needed to vote ‘sure’ is I might have simply dealt myself out of being concerned in that course of, and I wish to be extremely concerned in that for the following course of,” he continued.
And Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., one other fiscal hawk that was cautious of supporting the invoice however finally voted for it, informed Fox Information Digital, “I feel we nonetheless must undoubtedly do yet one more this 12 months, so we’ll see if that is what occurs.”
Johnson speculated that lawmakers may deal with the method, which permits Republicans to skirt the 60-vote filibuster threshold within the Senate however should adjust to stringent Senate guidelines, within the upcoming fiscal 12 months, which begins in October.
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Sen. Ron Johnson talks with reporters within the U.S. Capitol after the Home handed the One Large Stunning Invoice Act on Might 22, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photos)
The senator has an ally in Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who shortly after the “huge, stunning invoice” handed out of the Home and onto Trump’s desk stated, “We’re going to do that once more.”
“We’re gonna have a second reconciliation bundle within the fall and a 3rd within the spring of subsequent 12 months,” Johnson stated on Fox Information’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., one other fiscal hawk who criticized the Senate’s modifications to the preliminary reconciliation invoice however voted for it ultimately, stated one other reconciliation invoice was “completely” possible.
He’s gunning for extra spending cuts and extra ends to “authorities giveaways,” however famous the looming 2026 election season put them on a brief timeline, nonetheless.
“[Trump will] have a greater likelihood now, as a result of you do not have to take care of the filibuster, the place you will get 50% plus one. If there’s ever an opportunity to do it, we have to do it now, as a result of the midterms are developing in the midst of subsequent 12 months. So actually we have to push for the following eight months,” Norman stated.
Initially, Senate Republicans had pushed for a two-bill observe, one thing that the speaker stated wouldn’t be possible within the Home due to the various factions, and crimson strains, all through the convention.
However now Senate management could also be extra cautious given the collection of hurdles going through the higher chamber within the coming months, together with advancing a $9.4 billion clawback bundle this week which is already going through headwinds amongst pockets of Senate Republicans.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski on the U.S. Capitol on July 1, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos)
A senior GOP aide informed Fox Information Digital that Senate Majority Chief John Thune, R-S.D., was open to a different reconciliation bundle, however “is closely targeted on promoting the final invoice and highlighting all it does.”
“At this level it’s untimely to even consider what could possibly be in a second one,” the aide stated.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., informed Fox Information Digital that “we wish to do yet one more reconciliation bundle,” and echoed the speaker’s sentiment that extra could possibly be accomplished.
First, nonetheless, lawmakers must get by the looming authorities funding battle with Senate Democrats.
Presently, Senate spending panels are going by mark-ups on the dozen funding payments wanted to maintain the federal government’s lights on, however Mullin, who chairs the Legislative Department Appropriations Subcommittee, believed that one other authorities funding extension was on the horizon.
“It seems like we’re screaming straight towards a [continuing resolution], and we’ve got to have, we will have to determine how one can keep away from a Schumer shutdown, as a result of they are not going to be useful in passing it,” he stated.
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Getting each Senate Republican, or perhaps a majority, to go ahead with reconciliation as soon as extra could also be a problem.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was the important thing vote that superior the Senate’s first crack at reconciliation again to the Home, after hours of ground negotiations and rewritten provisions that might support Alaska have been added to the bundle.
However she appeared disinterested in taking one other crack on the intensive course of.
“No, no,” Murkowski informed Fox Information Digital. “I wish to legislate.”
