{"id":22632,"date":"2026-05-13T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senators-give-house-gops-summer-reconciliation-plan-a-cool-reception\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:03:02","slug":"senators-give-house-gops-summer-reconciliation-plan-a-cool-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senators-give-house-gops-summer-reconciliation-plan-a-cool-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators give House GOP\u2019s summer reconciliation plan a cool reception"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Republicans aren’t sold on their House counterparts\u2019 dreams of passing yet another party-line bill this summer.<\/p>\n

GOP senators are still trying to push through a narrowly targeted immigration enforcement bill \u2014 their second attempt at using the budget reconciliation process this Congress following last summer’s tax-cuts-focused megabill.<\/p>\n

With that legislation still in flux, they aren’t showing much enthusiasm for the House GOP\u2019s goal of passing a third reconciliation bill by late July<\/u><\/a> \u2014 and several aren’t convinced a third bill happens at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t bet my house on it, and if it were your house I were betting on, I\u2019d say, \u2018Maybe,\u2019\u201d said Sen. John Kennedy<\/a> (R-La.). \u201cI hope that they’re right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Josh Hawley<\/a> (R-Mo.), asked if the Senate was on the same timeline or if he was sure a third bill would happen, said, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

The skepticism from some Republicans comes as key House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a>, told Blue Light News this week they want to draw up another bill before the long August recess.<\/p>\n

House Republicans are still discussing what could go in the bill<\/u><\/a>, which could be a final catch-all before the midterms allowing them to potentially address affordability issues, alleged fraud in social service programs and Iran war funding, among other things.<\/p>\n

But Senate Republican leaders aren\u2019t buying yet, especially as the White House struggles to squash GOP skepticism over funding in the immigration enforcement bill related to President Donald Trump\u2019s ballroom project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still working on reconciliation 2.0,\u201d Majority Leader John Thune<\/a> said Wednesday when asked if the Senate was also working on a pre-recess timeline for a third bill.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso<\/a> added that \u201cwhat we\u2019re wanting to do right now is get this second one done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Republicans aren’t sold on their House counterparts\u2019 dreams of passing yet another party-line bill this summer. GOP senators are still trying to push through a narrowly targeted immigration enforcement bill \u2014 their second attempt at using the budget reconciliation process this Congress following last summer’s tax-cuts-focused megabill. With that legislation still in flux, they […]<\/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-22632","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\/22632","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=22632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}