President Donald Trump is calling for Republicans to pass a $350 billion bill to fund the military while notching conservative policy victories — and GOP senators aren’t exactly scurrying to action.
House Republican leaders and committee chairs have been meeting for weeks about what to include in a new party-line reconciliation package. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has also had conversations about the House’s vision with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.).
But the Senate has taken no concrete steps toward advancing a bill, and GOP senators and aides said this week it was becoming clear any “Reconciliation 3.0” would be a House-led effort.
Multiple Senate Republicans — including members of leadership — say they don’t currently see a path that could marshal 50 votes behind such a measure on their side of the Capitol just months before the midterms.
