{"id":22909,"date":"2026-05-18T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/new-reconciliation-text\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:02:10","slug":"new-reconciliation-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/new-reconciliation-text\/","title":{"rendered":"New reconciliation text"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Democrats have received redrafted text from Republicans of their party-line immigration enforcement bill, according to a person granted anonymity to describe behind-the-scenes developments. The revised text given to Democrats does not include a controversial Secret Service provision that could fund parts of a new White House ballroom because Republicans are still updating that language.<\/p>\n<p>The revision comes after Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that some provisions of the GOP bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/16\/ballroom-funding-senate-parliamentarian-00924612\" target=\"_blank\">would not quality for the party-line budget reconciliation process<\/a>, forcing Republicans back to the drawing board in their bid to avoid a Democratic filibuster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats have received redrafted text from Republicans of their party-line immigration enforcement bill, according to a person granted anonymity to describe behind-the-scenes developments. The revised text given to Democrats does not include a controversial Secret Service provision that could fund parts of a new White House ballroom because Republicans are still updating that language. [&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-22909","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\/22909","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=22909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}