No 2 Republican Steve Scalise lays out government funding strategies, with fiscal deadlines looming

DORAL, Fla. — House Republicans person their enactment chopped retired for them successful the coming weeks, with 3 fiscal deadlines looming and President Donald Trump pushing for a precise progressive archetypal 100 days of his administration.

Congressional GOP leaders are moving connected a monolithic blimpish argumentation overhaul via the reconciliation process. By lowering the threshold for transition successful the Senate from 60 votes to a elemental 51-seat majority, it allows the enactment successful powerfulness to beforehand their argumentation goals into law, provided those policies woody with budgetary and different fiscal matters.

"We privation to present connected each the things that President Trump talked astir during the campaign…including nary taxation connected tips, which was 1 of those aboriginal items that the president talked about, but besides ensuring nary taxation increases happen. We tin afloat money our borderline information needs, making definite we physique the partition out, that we springiness much exertion and tools to our Border Patrol agents," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News Digital.

"We tin nutrient much vigor successful America…try to get escaped of immoderate of these brainsick rules and regulations that adhd truthful overmuch outgo for nary bully crushed to families."

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise discussed the GOP's goals of gathering their backing deadlines and enacting Trump policies. (Getty Images)

Scalise said it would beryllium "much much robust" than Republicans’ past reconciliation measure passed successful 2017 — the past clip the GOP controlled Congress and the White House.

His optimism comes arsenic legislature Republicans inactive look divided implicit however champion to enact their plans. Senate Republicans and immoderate GOP hardliners successful the House person argued that trying to walk a measure with borderline and vigor policies archetypal would springiness Trump a speedy win, portion allowing much clip for much analyzable issues similar taxes.

But House leaders are acrophobic that, fixed Republicans past passed 2 reconciliation bills successful 1 twelvemonth successful the 1990s with overmuch larger majorities, the two-track strategy could let Trump’s 2017 provisions to expire and rise taxes connected millions of families.

"You person to commencement somewhere. We're starting with 1 package," Scalise said. "No disagreement connected the details of what we're going to include."

Meanwhile, lawmakers are besides contending with the indebtedness ceiling being reinstated this period aft it was temporarily suspended successful a bipartisan woody during the Biden administration. At slightest 1 projection suggests Congress volition person until mid-June oregon earlier to woody with it oregon hazard fiscal turmoil that comes with a downgrade successful the U.S.’s nationalist recognition rating.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise discussed strategies for those deadlines. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

And coming connected March 14 is the deadline to avert a partial authorities shutdown, which Congress has extended doubly since the extremity of the erstwhile fiscal twelvemonth connected Oct. 1.

The No. 2 House Republican floated the anticipation of combining those second 2 deadlines.

"The Appropriations Committee, which is not straight progressive successful fund reconciliation, is simultaneously having a dialog with the Senate connected authorities funding, you know, moving with the White House to marque definite it meets President Trump's priorities," Scalise said. 

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"I would ideate the indebtedness ceiling could precise good beryllium a portion of that speech successful that negotiation."

Scalise spoke with Fox News Digital astatine the House GOP’s annual retreat, held this twelvemonth astatine Trump’s play nine successful Doral, Florida.

Lawmakers huddled down closed doors for 3 days to hash retired a roadmap for grappling with their aggregate deadlines and enacting Trump’s agenda.

They besides heard from the president himself, arsenic good arsenic Vice President JD Vance.

Republicans are moving to enact President Donald Trump's agenda. (Donald Trump 2024 campaign)

Trump has connected aggregate occasions called connected Republicans to enactment connected the indebtedness bounds to debar a U.S. recognition default. Vance told Republicans connected Tuesday that Trump wanted them to bash truthful without giving leverage to Democrats — a weighty task fixed immoderate GOP hardliners’ absorption to raising oregon suspending the bounds implicit the U.S.’s $36 trillion nationalist debt.  

House GOP leaders tin presently lone spend 1 defection to inactive walk a measure on enactment lines.

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They’ve been forced to question Democratic enactment connected authorities backing aggregate times, including astir precocious successful December. 

With nary topline statement reached and astir 19 days successful league earlier the March 14 deadline to avert a partial authorities shutdown, it’s becoming progressively apt that legislature leaders volition person to harvester each 12 yearly appropriations bills into 1 monolithic "omnibus," a determination besides mostly opposed by GOP hardliners.

"I deliberation we're getting closer," Scalise said of a topline fig for fiscal twelvemonth 2025 spending. "The House and Senate were isolated by a beauteous sizable magnitude of money. They’re trying to negociate that down to get a resolution."