Washington – The Senate Republicans said Wednesday that they intend to advance with their own plan to approve key components of the Trump President’s agenda from next week, since the chamber’s efforts to begin the budget reconciliation process have been stagnant.
“It’s time for the Senate to move,” Senator Lindsey Graham said to journalists on Wednesday, after informing the Senate Republicans about the plan during their lunch meeting.
Congress leaders have been looking for a massive legislative package through the budgetary reconciliation process to promulgate Mr. Trump’s agenda, including resources to strengthen border security, extend 2017 tax cuts, encourage national manufacturing and invest In American energy, while working to do government programs and address government programs and address the debt limit. But the main Republican leaders have appeared disjointed in how to proceed, which caused weeks back and forth on whether to follow an approach to one or two invoices.
Until now, the Republicans of the Senate had deferred to the camera to begin the process, although they generally advocated the two bills that would include an initial effort to quickly secure a border victory, while the fiscal legislation would take time to write and must be addressed to a separate measure.
The budgetary reconciliation process allows Congress to accelerate certain types of legislation and avoid the threshold of 60 votes that is generally required in the Senate. But it is a complicated maneuver that comes with its own limitations in what can be included. To approve the legislation using budgetary reconciliation, legislators must first approve a budget resolution, but the Chamber has faced a violent reaction from conservatives in recent days by legislation.
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Graham, president of the Senate Budget Committee, said that although he appreciates “what the camera is trying to do,” he thinks it is important to obtain money to implement Trump’s border security policy. He argued that “a great project of beautiful law”, that Trump and the Republicans of the Chamber have said they prefer, is “too complicated.”
“It is important to put points on the board,” said Graham, saying that the president’s plan on border security is “to reach a wall of funds.” He said that Senate Republicans are discussing a bill with $ 150 billion for border security that said it would be paid.
Republican leaders of the House of Representatives described a timeline for the single bill, which begins with the marking of a budget resolution that they intended to maintain this week, and a promise to have the package on the Trump desktop before May. The moment would fall within the first 100 days of Trump’s second term and would allow three vacancies to be filled in the republican ranks of the camera, improving their possibilities to gain approval for the bill.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, told journalists on Tuesday, when the Senate Republicans began to broad In this regard, “he added that” we have progressed a lot. “
“The Senate will not take the lead,” said Johnson. “We are going to take the front and we are on time.”
Johnson told reporters after Graham’s comments on Wednesday that he would talk to him, calling South Carolina Republican as a “good friend”, while stressing that “the camera needs to lead this if we are going to succeed.”
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