The Senate fiscal 2025 budget resolution released Friday gives instructions to nine authorizing committees to draft a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill aimed at strengthening border control, buttressing military spending and encouraging domestic energy production.
The fiscal blueprint, written by Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., gives the authorizing committees until March 7 to fill in the details and provide their respective pieces of the package to the Budget Committee, which will then meld them into one bill.
The plan, to be marked up by the committee Feb. 12 and 13, assumes $342 billion over four years divided between border security, the Pentagon and Coast Guard: $175 billion for the border, $150 billion for defense and $17 billion for the Coast Guard.
