On June 3, the U.S. Senate voted 53-46 to bring the current version of the FY2027 budget reconciliation bill to the chamber’s floor for debate, two days after the original deadline that President Trump (R) gave lawmakers to deliver the bill to his desk. Lawmakers have referred to the package as reconciliation 2.0, after Trump signed a prior reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in 2025.
The bill’s progress stalled both due to the Senate Parliamentarian’s ruling that certain provision related to funds for the White House ballroom did not comply with the Senate’s Byrd Rule, and because of disagreements about funding of the anti-weaponization fund, a proposed $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who said they were unfairly investigated or prosecuted by the Biden-era Justice Department — including January 6 defendants. No draft of the budget reconciliation legislation has included funding for the anti-weaponization fund, but debate about the proposal became enmeshed in negotiations over the reconciliation package.
Two U.S. Senate committees released the first version of a proposed budget reconciliation spending package on May 4. It mostly included funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and increased the deficit by $72 billion over the following decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
