{"id":10405,"date":"2025-06-18T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-eyes-mid-week-start-for-megabill\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:01:41","slug":"thune-eyes-mid-week-start-for-megabill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-eyes-mid-week-start-for-megabill\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune eyes mid-week start for megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday the chamber will &#8220;hopefully&#8221; take up the GOP&#8217;s party-line megabill starting in the middle of next week.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders have been tentatively planning for an initial procedural vote as soon as next Wednesday, setting up a final vote over the weekend \u2014 a timeline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/17\/doubts-abound-for-thunes-aggressive-megabill-timeline-00411228\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported by POLITICO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans are still negotiating with their members behind the scenes and continue to meet with the parliamentarian, who needs to bless the bill as compliant with the chamber&#8217;s rules surrounding the straight-majority budget reconciliation process. Thune said he expected talks with the parliamentarian to continue into the weekend, and potentially into early next week, but added, &#8220;I think we&#8217;re making good headway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday the chamber will &#8220;hopefully&#8221; take up the GOP&#8217;s party-line megabill starting in the middle of next week. GOP leaders have been tentatively planning for an initial procedural vote as soon as next Wednesday, setting up a final vote over the weekend \u2014 a timeline previously reported by Blue Light News. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}