It’s an ambitious move, but congressional Republicans are ready to try.
Border security, lower taxes, and a debt limit increase – can Trump have it all in one big, beautiful reconciliation bill? That has been the question of late, and congressional Republicans seemed uncertain in recent days whether it could – or should – be done all at once. With little in the way of direction from the president-elect himself, the GOP seems to have come up with a plan: try for one, settle for two if it doesn’t work out.
Understanding Reconciliation
Put simply, reconciliation is a special process that makes legislation easier to pass in the Senate. Rather than needing 60 votes in the upper chamber like regular legislation, a reconciliation bill just needs a simple majority of 51 – or a tie with the vice president, as the…
