House Speaker Mike Johnson is gearing up for a budget reconciliation process that will seek to codify a lot of the Trump fiscal agenda.
Now that Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House, party leaders are working to assemble a bill that will force through this agenda as part of the reconciliation process – meaning that they can bypass the 60-vote threshold in the Senate and get a bill through with a simple majority.
Both parties have used reconciliation in order to pass policy agenda items. Among the more recent attempts at it, Democrats got the falsely-named “Inflation Reduction Act” through the process with the help of then-senator Joe Manchin. But now, the tables have turned and Republicans see an opportunity to codify tax cuts, reduced spending, Medicaid reform, and more in a bill that will not require a filibuster-proof majority in the…
