Washington – the US Budget Committee plans to assess the budget resolution next week, starting a long and likely tedious reconciliation process, which is hoping that it can utilize to transfer changes in the security of borders and immigration policy.
Chairman Lindsey Graham, a Republican from southern Carolina, announced markers on Wednesday, moving in front of the house who hoped to move the budget resolution through the committee this week.
“To those who think that Republicans should fulfill their boundary security promises, mass deportation of criminal illegal aliens: I agree,” wrote Graham in a statement.
“That is why the Senate Budget Committee will go ahead next week to give boundaries to the spell of Trump’s administration, Tom Homan, the money he needs to finish the wall, hire ice agents to deport criminal illegal immigrants and create more beds so that you don’t be so We release more dangerous people to the country. “
Graham said that the Act on reconciliation “will be the most transformant borders’ security project in the history of our country.”
Budget plan
The budget resolution of the Congress is a tax and expense that defines the vision of legislators for a 10-year budget window. It does not contain any actual federal expenditure.
The Chamber and the Senate must agree to adopt the same budget resolution, before the Congress formally unlocks the reconciliation process, which will allow republicans to introduce their policy without democratic support.
While GOP controls both congress chambers, the principles of the Senate require at least 60 legislators of voting for limiting the debate on the main bills. Republicans currently occupy 53 seats when it comes to the coastalness needed to transfer the regulations through a regular process without a democratic entry.
The process of reconciliation, which has strict rules in the Senate, allows GOP to circumvent this 60-voice requirement, provided that the various elements of the package relate to revenues or expenses in a manner not recognized as “only accidental” by the Senate MP. Agreements may also not change social insurance.
One bill or two?
The Republican Senate first conducting as part of a budget resolution does not guarantee that the Chamber will vote for adopting the same budget resolution, especially if it contains instructions on reconciliation to solve the problem of border safety and immigration policy.
House leaders GOP press for months so that Congress can transfer all their political goals, including people dealing with tax and energy, using one reconciliation package.
Republicans of the Senate, including Graham, He said that the party should write two separate reconciliation packages with the first borders focused on the security and the second tax address.
Although the Chamber and the Senate do not have to develop all the details of the principles of a possible reconciliation package in budget resolution, they must agree which committees will receive reconciliation instructions and what these instructions say.
Vote-Rama Krosna
When the Senate Budget Committee votes its budget resolution to the Senate floor, GOP leaders will have to devote time to debates on the resolution. But before the upper chamber will be able to vote for the budget resolution, the senators will have to vote-a-Ram; Usually all marathon night, during which senators from both parties place dozens of amendments to solve the budget.
Democrats will utilize this process so that in 2026 senators are struggling with tough perspectives of re -election in terms of principles that can cause their problems, or during primary or general elections.
Then the Senate’s budget resolution would go to the chamber in which GOP leaders could accept or make changes, which would require a return to the Senate
The Chamber can also raise its own budget resolution in the budget committee, move it through the floor, and then go to a conference with the Senate.
All this, before the chamber and the Senate begin to debate the actual act on reconciliation with actual changes in politics in committees and on the floor.
Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said last month that he hopes that the whole process would be completed before the end of May.
House GOP leaders have a particularly narrow margin to work, currently maintaining only 218 places, compared to 215 democrats. Currently, there are two free places that will be completed by special elections this year.
Last updated 17:47, February 5, 2025
