House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington offered details on what a budget reconciliation bill could look like Friday, outlining an agenda that includes targeting fraud in the earned income tax credit program and finding savings in other means-tested benefit programs.
Arrington, R-Texas, and Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have stressed the need to provide additional funding for defense and immigration enforcement through the filibuster-proof reconciliation process, which Republicans used last year to pass their “big, beautiful” tax and spending package.
In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on March 27, Arrington said extended funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement is needed to guard against “more shutdowns in the future with Democrats on the side of stopping deportations and putting our ICE agents at risk.”
