Work on the second reconciliation bill of the 119th Congress took a baby step forward Wednesday as the House and Senate Budget Committee chairs met to review plans for the first step in the process: drafting a budget resolution.
Despite considerable doubts among Republicans that they can unify for a second time to pass a sequel to the “big beautiful bill,” the key players are getting to work, calculating that the filibuster-proof reconciliation process may be the only way to enact funding for immigration enforcement and the Iran war.
“Let’s put it this way: The reconciliation train is leaving the station,” Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., wrote on the social platform X after meeting with his House counterpart, Texas Rep. Jodey C. Arrington.
