DORAL, Florida — House Republicans hoping for a Florida-inspired breakthrough on budget reconciliation were left instead with middling results Tuesday, including on energy and environment policies.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters at President Donald Trump’s resort here that lawmakers are still on schedule to release a “blueprint” for a budget resolution Wednesday, a necessary first step to jump-start the upcoming reconciliation process. Republicans hope to pass the party-line legislation focused on tax cuts, the border and energy in the next several months.
“When we leave, we plan to have a blueprint for the budget resolution that will unlock basically and begin the reconciliation process,” Johnson told reporters. “It’s exactly on the timeline that we planned, and we feel very good about where we are.”
But even after a full day of negotiations Tuesday, most Republicans said they were not particularly close to coming to a consensus or even a general idea of what an eventual reconciliation package would look like, despite self-imposed deadlines.