Johnson: Reconciliation Process to Begin in First Week of February

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Both the House and Senate must pass identical budget resolutions in order to unlock the reconciliation process.

WASHINGTONโ€”The House GOP will begin its process of passing President Donald Trumpโ€™s legislative agenda through reconciliation the first week of February, said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Jan. 27.

Reconciliation allows for Congress to pass legislation related to spending, taxing, and the national debt without having to deal with the Senateโ€™s 60-vote filibuster threshold, which applies to most legislation.

โ€œWhen we get back, the [House] Budget Committee will be marking upโ€”first week of February is the planโ€”marking up the plan to set the resolution to begin and unlock and open the reconciliation process,โ€ Johnson told reporters at the House GOP issues conference at Trumpโ€™s resort in Doral, Florida, outside Miami.

โ€œThat will be where the lionโ€™s share of these campaign promises that we made are fulfilled.โ€

Both the House and Senate must pass identical budget resolutions in order to unlock the reconciliation process. The resolution includes what will be in the bill and how it will be paid for. While bills must be signed or vetoed by the president, budget resolutions do not.

Johnson said that during the issues conference, House Republicans will be in rooms negotiating and putting forth proposals on what the reconciliation bill should be so that they can hit the ground running upon returning to Washington next week.

Reconciliation was used to pass the 2017 Trump tax cuts and reformโ€”which the GOP has promised to extend as the individual income tax brackets under it are set to expire after this yearโ€”and Obamacare, which the GOP failed to repeal in 2017 through the same mechanism.

The House GOP has said it would also use reconciliation to pass energy and border security measures. Raising the debt ceiling through the mechanism is a possibility, though Johnson has said he is not wedded to the idea of using reconciliation for that purpose.

Questions remain as to whether the agenda items will be in one big reconciliation bill or two. Trump has said his preference is one, while Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has called for two bills. Johnson wants one bill.

Byย Jackson Richman

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