{"id":16915,"date":"2025-12-18T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-path-for-another-gop-party-line-bill-ways-and-means-chair-says\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:31:45","slug":"no-path-for-another-gop-party-line-bill-ways-and-means-chair-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/no-path-for-another-gop-party-line-bill-ways-and-means-chair-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No path\u2019 for another GOP party-line bill, Ways and Means chair says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith<\/a> is swatting down some of his colleagues’ hopes for a party-line policy bill next year, even as Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> publicly tries to keep the idea alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t see a path of a second reconciliation ever passing,\u201d Smith (R-Mo.) said in an interview as he left the Capitol on Wednesday, referring to the special budgetary procedures that can allow legislation to avoid a Senate filibuster.<\/p>\n

The comment came just hours after Johnson said in a CNBC interview that Republicans could still attempt another second reconciliation bill early next year \u2014 especially to address health care<\/a> with the party facing pressure to act as key Obamacare subsidies expire. The promise of another party-line bill figured into conversations Johnson had with GOP hard-liners over the past week as they pushed for assurances for further action before Johnson pushed through a narrow health care bill<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Smith, on the other hand, has long been skeptical that Republicans will get more than one bite at the reconciliation apple in the 119th Congress. He was a key proponent of pursing “one big, beautiful bill”<\/a> this year encompassing tax cuts and other GOP priorities rather than splitting it up into multiple pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith is swatting down some of his colleagues’ hopes for a party-line policy bill next year, even as Speaker Mike Johnson publicly tries to keep the idea alive. \u201cI don’t see a path of a second reconciliation ever passing,\u201d Smith (R-Mo.) said in an interview as he left the […]<\/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-16915","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\/16915","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=16915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}