Senate Republicans unveiled a new budget plan Wednesday that they hope will serve as the foundation for the party’s massive energy, defense and immigration bill.
The fiscal 2025 budget resolution — a revamped version of the proposal the Senate passed in February — would lay the groundwork for using the reconciliation process to make permanent the 2017 tax cuts while cutting billions of dollars in climate programs and boosting fossil fuel production.
“This budget resolution will pave the way for a generational investment in border security and national defense and unleash American energy dominance,” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said in a statement.
The Senate majority leader said he wants to put the concurrent resolution up for a vote before Monday, and the House could take it up before the end of next week. President Donald Trump told senators he supported the plan Wednesday.
