{"id":22501,"date":"2026-05-11T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-house-vs-senate-rift-threatens-gop-agenda\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:02:15","slug":"capitol-agenda-house-vs-senate-rift-threatens-gop-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-house-vs-senate-rift-threatens-gop-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: House vs. Senate rift threatens GOP agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tensions between House and Senate Republicans are threatening the GOP\u2019s legislative agenda<\/a> ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n

The two chambers come back to Capitol Hill this week with a list of legislative priorities they have failed to reach consensus on \u2014 and a shrinking time frame to get it done.<\/p>\n

Who is at fault for the standoff depends on who you ask.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe control Washington. When \u2026 we don\u2019t get things done, we\u2019re making a huge mistake,\u201d Sen. Thom Tillis said about his House counterparts. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe House is doing its job,\u201d Rep. Chip Roy said. \u201cSometimes it gets a little tense, but we\u2019re still getting stuff done. We\u2019re sending it over to the Senate, so we look forward to them doing their job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans did get a few wins before the brief recess: The House passed a Senate bill to fund everything in DHS except immigration enforcement after a record-setting 76 day shutdown of the department<\/a>. Johnson had initially called the bill a \u201ccrap sandwich.\u201d<\/p>\n

The House and Senate also managed to get on the same page about a budget blueprint for a party-line spending bill President Donald Trump wants on his desk by June 1. Congress is likely to spend most of May focusing on that deadline \u2014 especially after the Senate\u2019s proposal included $1 billion in security funding<\/a> that can be used for at least parts of Trump\u2019s proposed White House ballroom, a project voters have shown little support for.<\/p>\n

But other fights are coming up quickly.<\/p>\n

Republicans bought themselves through mid-June to figure out a plan on a key government spy power reauthorization that now includes a central bank digital currency provision, which is dead-on-arrival in the Senate.<\/p>\n

A ban on CBDC is also a key hang-up in dueling housing affordability proposals between the House and Senate, among other differences between the chambers\u2019 plans (more on this below).<\/p>\n

It’s a key frustration for Senate Republicans, who believe getting a housing bill to Trump\u2019s desk would be an easy way to show voters the party is responsive to their affordability anxieties.<\/p>\n

\u201cConversations continue,\u201d House Financial Services Chair French Hill said before the recess. \u201cWe just are looking for the path to get a bicameral bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

What else we\u2019re watching:\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u2014GOP’s VIRGINIA WIN MAY MUDDLE BALLROOM TALKS: <\/b>Republicans\u2019 redistricting win in Virginia might translate into some immediate new headaches for Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s legislating agenda and Trump\u2019s ballroom security plans. The state Supreme Court\u2019s Friday decision to overturn Democrats\u2019 redrawn maps boosts the GOP\u2019s outlook to hold onto more seats in November\u2019s midterms. But senior House Republicans are concerned those Virginia Republicans with a new lease on life in Congress could present challenges for the GOP\u2019s latest party-line spending plans, four people with knowledge of the conversations told Blue Light News. Johnson must convince those members facing highly competitive races to support the reconciliation bill and pass it by Trump\u2019s June 1 deadline. That may not be easy given a highly debated proposal setting aside $1 billion that may be spent on the White House\u2019s ballroom security.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 HOUSING BILL’S WALL STREET PROVISIONS IN FLUX: <\/b>House GOP lawmakers have drafted amended housing legislation that would reel in efforts by the Senate to limit the role of Wall Street in housing, according to text obtained by Blue Light News. It strips a much-debated Senate provision requiring single-family homes built by large institutional investors as long-term rentals be sold after seven years to individual homebuyers \u2014 which is where much of the House opposition has been focused.<\/p>\n

Jordain Carney, Meredith Lee Hill and Katherine Hapgood contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tensions between House and Senate Republicans are threatening the GOP\u2019s legislative agenda ahead of the midterms. The two chambers come back to Capitol Hill this week with a list of legislative priorities they have failed to reach consensus on \u2014 and a shrinking time frame to get it done. Who is at fault for 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-22501","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\/22501","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=22501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}