Senate Republicans to advance Trump's agenda at House booths on budget settlement plans

Washington – Senate Republicans said Wednesday they intend to continue their own plans to approve a key component of Trump’s presidential agenda next week as House efforts to start a budget reconciliation process have stalled.

“It's time for the Senate to move,” Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters Wednesday.

Congressional leaders have been conducting large-scale legislative programs through budget settlement procedures to develop Mr. Trump’s agenda, including resources to strengthen border security, expand tax cuts in 2017, inspire domestic manufacturing and invest in U.S. energy, while working on Cut government plans and address government plans and resolve debt restrictions. But senior Republican leaders seem disconnected in how they proceed, prompting weeks to walk back and forth on one or two-string approach.

So far, Senate Republicans have delayed the House to begin the process, although they usually advocate a two-deliberation approach, which includes initial efforts to quickly ensure a border victory, while stressing that tax legislation takes time to write and should be made separate. Solution.

The budget settlement process allows Congress to quickly train certain types of legislation and avoid the 60 vote threshold that the Senate usually requires. But this is a complex operation with its own limitations on what can be included. To approve legislation that uses budget settlements, lawmakers must first approve budget solutions, but the House has opposed the Conservative Party in recent days.

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Graham said that while he appreciates “what the House is trying to do,” he believes it is important to make money to implement Mr. Trump’s border security policy. He argued that what Trump and House Republicans said was “a big bill” “is too complicated.”

“It's important that we put points on the board,” Graham said. Senate Republicans are discussing a $150 billion border security bill, which he said will be for payment.

House Republican leaders outlined a timeline for the single-vote approach, a marker of the budget resolution they aim to hold this week and promise to put parcels on Trump’s table by May. The schedule will be within the first 100 days of Trump's second term and allows three vacancies in the House of Representatives Republicans to be filled, thus increasing their chances of winning approval of the bill.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Tuesday that Senate Republicans are beginning to be frustrated by the House’s pace, “We have to keep working within the margins of time, and I’m very optimistic about that,” adding. “We have made a lot of progress.”

“The Senate won't take the lead,” Johnson said. “We'll lead, we'll go as planned.”

Johnson told reporters after commenting on Graham on Wednesday that he would talk to him, calling the Republican Party of South Carolina “good friends” while stressing that “the house needs to lead the issue if we are to succeed.” .

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