On Tuesday, GOP Senator majority leader John Tune pushed House Republicans aside and led President Trump's “big and beautiful” bill package on border security, energy and defense.
While House Republicans left town at rest, Thune (R-SD) later this week saw Senator Lindsey Graham, whom the Senate needed to unlock the process of drafting Trump's marquee agenda. It has announced that it will take up the passage of the (R-SC) budget resolution. Its own package.
“Now is the time to act on the decisive mission that the American people gave to President Trump in November,” Thune writes of X. This starts this week with the passing of Chairman @lindseygrahamsc's budget. ”
Graham's budget resolution on Trump's agenda advanced through the committee last week, featuring an increase of $175 billion due to the US border crisis and $150 billion in strengthened defense spending over the next decade.
The Senate plan effectively divides Trump's agenda package into two tranches. It focuses on the first treatment of border, energy and defence reforms and the second tax reform.
House GOP leadership has already rejected the proposal.
Republicans in both rooms have largely agreed on the first batch of bills, but have proven to be deeply divided, especially among the gopers of the homes who have a rough majority in thread bears. What you have is a tax component.
House repentance leaders feel that if Trump's “big and beautiful” agenda is split for votes, they will lose a lot of leverage with their party's hardliners to control tax reform elements .
Last week, the House Budget Committee advanced a single budget resolution amid growing pressure from Senate Republicans.
The framework, which is expected to be voted on the House floor next week, is seeking a total of $300 billion in additional spending on borders and defense, with room for tax cuts and room to raise the deficit up to $4.5 trillion . The next 10 years.
Additionally, there will be $2 trillion worth of spending cuts and a non-binding call to committee allocations, generating $1.5 trillion worth of cuts.
Hardliners such as executives Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Ralph Norman (R-SC) praised the House blueprint when they moved forward through committee last week.
But some Republicans in the Senate – still worried about potential hold-ups in the home – can get a quick legislative victory and get much needed resources to the US Mexico border So, it almost universally supports the two-track approach.
House Republicans have a history of limping into key legislative activities such as selecting speakers and passing budget bills.
House Republicans frequently have fundamental differences of opinion within the Caucus over taxation and spending.
The Finance Hawks want to maximize spending cuts to offset tax cuts, but Blue State Republicans are wary of their districts being hit too hard.
Blue State Republicans are also calling for an increase in the $10,000 cap on state and local tax credits.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) previously said the lower room would not consider Senate budget resolutions.
He added to X on Tuesday:
“We are the president of President Trump's desk to secure borders, keep taxes down, restore control of American energy, strengthen America's military, and improve government work for all Americans in the government. The focus remains on sending the bill to.
The solution requires that both rooms be cleaned up before heading to the president's desk to sign.
