{"id":15791,"date":"2025-11-18T15:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-plans-to-release-health-bill-and-backs-reconciliation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:16:43","slug":"white-house-plans-to-release-health-bill-and-backs-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-plans-to-release-health-bill-and-backs-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"White House plans to release health bill and backs reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A senior White House official said the Trump administration intends to put forward a health bill and left open the possibility of using the fast-track legislative process of reconciliation for passage of health or tariff legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have the health care conversation. We\u2019re going to put some legislation forward,\u201d White House deputy chief of staff James Blair said Tuesday at a Bloomberg Government policy breakfast.<\/p>\n

He expressed interest in a bipartisan health plan but said that \u201cif that path is foreclosed, there is the partisan path of reconciliation as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such a move would allow Republicans to advance a health plan with a simple majority, a path they unsuccessfully attempted in Trump\u2019s first term to repeal Obamacare but successfully used earlier this year on the megabill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president probably would like to go bigger than Blue Light News has the appetite for, so we\u2019ll have to see how that, you know, works out,\u201d Blair added, hinting at potential friction between the White House and congressional Republicans.<\/p>\n

Several GOP lawmakers have said privately that they expect the White House to put forward a framework that revisits long-standing Republican goals \u2014 including reducing insurance costs, expanding health savings accounts and unwinding parts of the Affordable Care Act \u2014 though it remains unclear how sweeping Trump hopes to go.<\/p>\n

If a reconciliation bill moves soon, Blair indicated that the administration would also want to include “probably the Trump tariff dividends and \u2026 interest in locking in tariffs.”<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans have been privately discussing a second reconciliation package. Budget Committee Republicans are tentatively looking at early next year for finalizing a budget resolution that would tee up the party-line package, according to senators on the committee.<\/p>\n

Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham<\/a> (R-S.C.) previously told Blue Light News that the party could use a second bill to tackle health care, spending and tax policy.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s plenty of skepticism, including within top members of the House and Senate GOP conferences, about doing another party-line bill, which would require near unity from their thin majorities. GOP senators, in a recent closed-door lunch, noted that many of their health care ideas left out of the \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d wouldn\u2019t comply with the Senate\u2019s strict rules for what can be included under reconciliation, according to one attendee granted anonymity to disclose private discussions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A senior White House official said the Trump administration intends to put forward a health bill and left open the possibility of using the fast-track legislative process of reconciliation for passage of health or tariff legislation. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have the health care conversation. We\u2019re going to put some legislation forward,\u201d White House deputy chief […]<\/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-15791","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\/15791","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=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}