Items Tagged with 'budget reconciliation process'

Senate Republicans are proposing changes to a key biofuel tax credit and creation of a new $25 billion fund for rural hospitals in a bid to pass their sweeping budget reconciliation bill. The 940-page One Big Beautiful Bill Act also includes some easing of new restrictions on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

The Senate parliamentarian has signed off on a revised GOP plan to require states to help pay for SNAP benefits based on their error rates, preserving an estimated $41 billion in budget savings needed for Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill.

Senate GOP leaders face a self-imposed deadline to pass their budget reconciliation bill before the July 4 deadline amid ongoing opposition from some deficit hawks and a fresh hole in the budget savings claimed by the Agriculture Committee. The Supreme Court is expected to consider its decision in a key pesticide case.

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Republicans can’t use the budget reconciliation process to impose a state cost-share for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, negating a major source of spending cuts for the legislation. Also ruled out was a provision to suspend permanent price support authority, the device lawmakers use to ensure future Congresses don't allow commodity programs to lapse. 

Senate Republicans will try to put the final touches on their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill during a work week shortened by the Juneteenth holiday, while trade discussions are expected to be on the agenda as President Donald Trump and Treasury Scott Bessent attend the G7 meeting this week in the Canadian Rockies. 

Senate Republicans are trying to find agreement this week on their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill that may scale back some of the House spending cuts, and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will face the House Ag Committee, while work continues in the House Appropriations Committee.

Senate Republicans are sharply divided over key parts of the House GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill ahead of a critical summer session and a looming deadline imposed by the U.S. debt ceiling. House appropriators start work on their fiscal 2026 spending bills, including the Agriculture measure, and Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins heads to Italy on another trade mission.

House Republicans took a major step toward enacting President Donald Trump's policy agenda and boosting spending for commodity programs and crop insurance by winning passage Thursday morning of the GOP's sweeping budget reconciliation bill.

House Republican leaders are trying to resolve sharp differences over the giant budget reconciliation bill after it stalled in the Budget Committee amid a clash between hardline conservatives and some Northeast moderates. The Budget Committee advanced the bill during a rare Sunday night session, but the Freedom Caucus said it would keep pushing for more spending cuts.

Solar bill gets dimmed * Ways and Means to mark up tax bill * Tariffs will offset reconciliation spending, Trump claims