FIRST ON FOX: National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., is not getting caught up successful the details of however precisely Republicans bundle cardinal authorities during the important fund reconciliation process earlier sending it to President Donald Trump's desk.
"I deliberation for us, results are much important than process," helium told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation pursuing a gathering betwixt Trump and House and Senate GOP leaders.
"And if that requires america to person borderline security, taxation reform, deportation — immoderate we tin get into a bundle oregon aggregate packages — we person to nutrient results for the people," helium explained.
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Sen. Tim Scott is president of the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 2026 cycle. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The payment of the budget reconciliation process is that the threshold to extremity statement successful the Senate is lower, allowing Republicans to decision the legislative filibuster with conscionable their conference's enactment alternatively than the accustomed 60 votes. However, usage of the process is constricted and indispensable not see what are considered "extraneous provisions."
Scott is "agnostic astir the process," helium said. This is simply a antithetic cognition than that of Republican leaders successful the House, who person been adamant astir fitting everything into 1 measure.
The South Carolina Republican joined different members of the Senate GOP enactment and their counterparts successful the House astatine a gathering with Trump connected Tuesday.
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Republicans are not needfully connected the aforesaid leafage conscionable yet astir fund reconciliation. (Reuters)
According to him, "We did not person immoderate nonsubjective of reaching statement connected reconciliation," contempt reports that a definite attack to reconciliation was agreed to. "I would see it the inaugural meeting, an accidental for america to admit that President Trump is the visionary person that we need."
He acknowledged that fund reconciliation was discussed, "but the important portion was that the extremity was achieved of creating a one-team attack to the problems that we indispensable lick for the American people. And President Trump was precise wide that this is not astir us."
When asked whether that meant the attack to the reconciliation process was inactive undecided oregon taxable to change, Scott said, "I would ideate it depends connected who you're talking to."
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Sen. Tim Scott, center, and different GOP leaders met with President Donald Trump, left, connected Tuesday. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He noted that the House Republican leaders did reenforce "the value of 1 big, beauteous bill."
"I deliberation the House decidedly sees a way for 1 big, beauteous measure to go instrumentality and that they person the votes for that. That's their objective."
However, Scott said, "I deliberation we're inactive unfastened to uncovering the way to victory," whether it beryllium 1 oregon 2 bills.
Many Republicans successful the Senate person espoused their wide penchant for making 2 abstracted fund reconciliation bills, with 1 addressing the borderline and different tackling taxes.
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U.S. Capitol Building. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
As for whether these associated meetings with Republican leaders and the president volition go routine, Scott said, "I surely anticipation so."
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"I deliberation 1 of the things we person to truly admit astir President Trump is he's looking for results. And that means that we each person to perceive the aforesaid thing, arsenic often arsenic possible, astatine the aforesaid time, truthful that determination is nary quality successful our knowing and there's nary daylight betwixt us."
It is inactive unclear however the reconciliation measure oregon bills volition instrumentality shape, but the South Carolina legislator said the president wants to get it done arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.
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