Republican leaders still at odds on reconciliation debate after Trump meeting

House and Senate leaders near a gathering astatine the White House connected Tuesday with varying levels of optimism astir being capable to acceptable their plans for a monolithic blimpish argumentation overhaul into 1 bill.

"The crushed the president talked astir the 1 big, beauteous bill, and the crushed we speech astir it arsenic well, is due to the fact that that's the astir businesslike and effectual mode to get it done," House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News’ Sean Hannity aft the meeting.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters, "We're moving guardant with 1 measure connected the House."

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Republicans are not needfully connected the aforesaid leafage conscionable yet astir fund reconciliation. (Reuters)

"We've had a batch of subordinate briefings, but we've besides been talking astir this with President Trump," Scalise said. "When you look astatine what gives america the champion way to occurrence – to unafraid the border, little vigor outgo and get unchangeable taxation argumentation alternatively of a taxation summation – each of those things we privation to do. One bill's the champion path."

However, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who has advocated for a two-bill approach, couched expectations erstwhile asked astir Scalise’s comments.

"I deliberation that treatment is ever predicated connected what we tin get done, and we're evidently each funny successful getting to the aforesaid destination," Thune told reporters. "There's a batch to do, and portion of it is conscionable figuring however to signifier it, and what's the champion mode to get each those results."

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Sen. John Thune antecedently expressed his inclination toward 2 bills. (Getty Images)

One Senate GOP enactment root pushed backmost connected House leaders' suggestions that the result of the associated treatment was wide statement connected a one-bill approach. Many Republicans successful the precocious enclosure person maintained that their penchant would beryllium 2 reconciliation bills, adjacent aft Trump's gathering with the Senate GOP earlier this month. 

Dealing with the indebtedness limit, California wildfire assistance and the March 14 authorities backing deadline were besides topics that arose astatine the Tuesday meeting.

The sit-down comes arsenic legislature Republicans are preparing for a monolithic blimpish argumentation overhaul done the fund reconciliation process. By lowering the threshold for transition successful the Senate from 60 votes to 51, reconciliation allows the enactment controlling Congress and the White House to walk wide argumentation changes — provided they woody with budgetary and different fiscal matters.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson has supported a one-bill approach. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOP lawmakers are angling to usage reconciliation to walk sweeping measures connected borderline security, authorities spending, defense, vigor and to widen Trump’s 2017 taxation cuts – with respective cardinal provisions from that measure expiring astatine the extremity of this year.

Advocates of the two-bill approach, which see Thune and the House Freedom Caucus, reason that splitting their priorities into abstracted pieces of authorities volition let Republicans to people aboriginal wins connected issues similar borderline information and energy, which mostly substance little part wrong the GOP, portion leaving much clip for analyzable matters similar taxes.

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Newt Gingrich was the 50th talker of the House from 1995 to 1998. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Critics of that program see members of the House Ways & Means Committee, who person warned that the analyzable governmental maneuvering needed for reconciliation could enactment 2 bills retired of reach, fixed the GOP’s razor-thin margins successful Congress.

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"The past clip we had 2 was erstwhile Newt Gingrich was the speaker. He had a overmuch larger majority. That was 1997. We person a bulk of one," committee subordinate Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., told reporters this month.

Congress is aiming to get a reconciliation program connected Trump’s table by spring, Scalise said Tuesday.