Republicans start pondering another debt limit hike as midterms loom - Live Updates - POLITICO

 Republicans raised the debt limit by $5 trillion last year. Now they are already thinking about how to head off another dive over the fiscal cliff on President Donald Trump’s watch…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/29/congress/debt-limit-reconciliation-01015197

 

Mike Johnson’s budget blueprint faces Senate GOP buzzsaw - POLITICO

One GOP senator, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said they were “skeptical” the Senate would advance a third reconciliation bill because some GOP colleagues “fear taking vote-a-rama votes right before the election.” 

Plus, Republicans already don’t believe they will be able to get Trump’s main priority — parts of the SAVE America Act — into the bill amid pushback from some of their own members, let alone whether the provisions would adhere to the chamber’s strict rules for what can be included under the reconciliation process...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/23/john-thune-budget-reconciliation-trump-01009256

 

Senators will ‘insist on offsets’ in reconciliation bill, Ron Johnson says - Live Updates - POLITICO

He told reporters Monday, ahead of the House rollout, that identifying offsetting cuts“would certainly be one of my objectives.

” But that risks putting him at odds with Thune, who has voiced concerns that pursuing spending cuts to health care or other sensitive programs could blow back on vulnerable members just before the midterms...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/15/congress/ron-johnson-reconciliation-offsets-00999519

 

GOP hard-liners outline anti-abortion, military funding demands for party-line bill - Live Updates - POLITICO

In the letter, the members also told Johnson the next bill should eliminate clean energy tax credits — something they pushed for in the first reconciliation bill last year. The lawmakers are also asking for reforms to health care, the removal of certain firearm-related taxes and “responsible short-term funding for key government personnel and services” to prevent another government shutdown ahead of the midterms...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/24/congress/freedom-caucus-makes-recon-3-0-demands-00974753 

Ways and Means chair warns he ‘won’t support’ next reconciliation bill without tax provisions - Live Updates - POLITICO

As House Republicans prepare to follow last summer’s tax and spending megabill with passage of a party-line immigration enforcement package as soon as Tuesday night, conversations have turned to what the GOP would put in a third filibuster-skirting reconciliation measure...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/09/congress/jason-smiths-latest-warning-00954341

 

Ballroom won’t be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request - POLITICO

Multiple Republican senators objected to sending taxpayer dollars to the president’s East Wing revamp...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/ballroom-security-funding-reconciliation-00930193

 

‘Anorexic’ reconciliation bill could mean Planned Parenthood gets re-funded - POLITICO

“Congressional Republicans are spending their time making political calculations about their wildly unpopular agenda all while over a million people’s access to care hangs in the balance,” Sarah Guggenheimer, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement to POLITICO. “Until the moment that Planned Parenthood health center patients are no longer at risk of having their health care taken from them and their lives upended, Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s fight will continue.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/23/anorexic-reconciliation-bill-could-mean-planned-parenthood-gets-re-funded-00889576

 

Brian Fitzpatrick delivers a warning on GOP reconciliation redo

Still, many of Fitzpatrick's colleagues are making plans for an expansive new GOP-only bill that would include more money for Homeland Security operations, Iran war funding and other cost-of-living priorities, while demanding it be fully offset with spending cuts — possibly from social programs targeted for "fraud prevention."

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/26/congress/fitzpatricks-reconciliation-warning-00846315

Breaking down the GOP's fraudulent scheme to pass tax cuts for billionaires

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wo2ODWmdarQ

'If Republicans Have Their Way...': Dick Durbin Rips 'Unimaginable And Cruel reconciliation package

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_qxypzdrE

 

Republicans Snuck Two Devastating Health Care Measures Into Trump’s Megabill – Mother Jones

…two last-minute additions went even further: The reconciliation bill that was passed now seeks to ban Affordable Care Act health care plans from covering abortion and gender-affirming care for all Medicaid patients, including adults, after initially proposing to ban care for just minors…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-bill-planned-parenthood-gender-affirming-care/ 

 

House Democrats will introduce legislation to 'save NOAA'

The amendment to the Republican budget reconciliation bill would prevent further Trump administration cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/house-democrats-will-introduce-legislation-noaa-rcna208051 

The White House wants to avoid Medicaid cuts. To GOP hard-liners, they’re essential. - POLITICO

Trump officials are "actively" pushing a proposal to slash drug prices within the program as an alternative...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/01/gop-medicaid-cuts-drug-prices-trump-00322803

 

House conservatives call for controversial Medicaid changes in reconciliation

The letter from Roy highlights the difficult path for Republicans to reach a consensus. While conservatives are clamoring for an end to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, moderate and battleground-district Republicans have said they will not accept steep cuts to Medicaid benefits…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5278434-house-conservatives-call-for-controversial-medicaid-changes-in-reconciliation/ 

 

MUST WATCH: Sparks Fly As James Comer And Melanie Stansbury Clash Over GOP reconciliation bill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyasbIxrVxg

 

Republicans trying to change rules to avoid House vote on Trump tariffs | Trump tariffs | The Guardian

The sleight of hand was embedded in procedural rule legislation setting up debate on a separate issue: the budget resolution that is central to Trump's agenda. 

If adopted, the rule would in effect stall until October a Democratic effort to force a floor vote on a resolution disapproving of the national emergency that Trump declared last week to justify the tariffs. This mirrors a similar tactic used previously to shield Trump's earlier tariffs…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-tariffs-house-republicans-rules 

 

Mike Johnson makes 'prayer request' ahead of vote on Donald Trump agenda bill

AFP, the Koch-backed advocacy group that hosted the Monday event at its Capitol Hill office it calls its "Freedom Embassy," in January launched a $20 million campaign in support of extending the Trump tax cuts that he signed into law in his first term. The organization pledged a 50-state media and lobbying effort and to conduct 1,000 meetings with congressional offices on Capitol Hill...

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5161537-johnson-prayer-request-trump-agenda-bill/

 

GOP roadblocks start to emerge on big Trump agenda bill

House Republicans are already laying down potential dealbreakers for the massive fiscal legislation President-elect Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are planning…

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/08/republican-trump-agenda-bill-deficit-debt-sal

Why it matters that Manchin balked at McConnell’s hostage gambit

A couple of weeks ago, the Kentucky Republican announced a new hostage plan: If Democrats pursued a budget reconciliation bill to lower the cost of medications, McConnell said, Republicans would kill the competitiveness bill, which he ostensibly supports, even if that results in helping China…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/matters-manchin-balked-mcconnells-hostage-gambit-rcna37801

Opinion | Get the message right, Democrats: The reconciliation bill is about supporting families - The Washington Post

… the survey shows overwhelming support among Democrats (61 percent) for "helping families directly and spending money on programs and institutions," and even 43 percent of Republicans agree. "The most popular form of benefit is cash assistance, and Americans favor an average benefit of around $2,400 per year." That suggests adding up the cash benefits under Biden's proposals would be beneficial so that voters understand what they are receiving. Moreover, a strong plurality (48 percent) want the wealthy to pay for these benefits, as Biden's plan proposes…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/democrats-its-about-families/