Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have started holding meetings to discuss where to find savings within their panel’s purview to finance legislation to enact President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.
Members held their first meeting Tuesday, with more planned throughout the week, on “everything” within Energy and Commerce’s jurisdiction, according to one member granted anonymity to discuss the scheduled closed-door gatherings.
It shows how eager House Republicans are to lay the groundwork for what their party-line bill could look like under the contours of the reconciliation process, even though they still need to resolve major differences between the budget resolution they adopted last week and the Senate’s product.
Energy and Commerce, led by Chair Brett Guthrie, is weighing how to cobble together $880 billion in savings to offset the cost of a reconciliation bill encompassing tax cuts, beefed-up border security, defense programs and energy policy.
