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{"id":3631,"date":"2024-12-13T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hfc-backs-two-pronged-reconciliation-plan-urges-focus-on-border\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:02:30","slug":"hfc-backs-two-pronged-reconciliation-plan-urges-focus-on-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hfc-backs-two-pronged-reconciliation-plan-urges-focus-on-border\/","title":{"rendered":"HFC backs two-pronged reconciliation plan, urges focus on border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The House Freedom Caucus is throwing its weight behind a two-step, party-line policy push, with the ultra-conservative bloc calling for an initial bill to address border security that\u2019s fully paid for and a second push for tax and other policy priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBorder security must move first \u2014 and then we should move forward to a second, larger reconciliation bill covering taxes, spending, energy, bureaucracy and more,\u201d the group\u2019s board of directors <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/freedomcaucus\/status\/1867669709459796139\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Divisions are already popping up among Republicans as to how to approach the reconciliation process with some, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/10\/jason-smith-trump-border-tax-00193537\" target=\"_blank\">like Ways and Means Chair Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.)<\/a>, calling for one bill. Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/03\/congress\/thune-outlines-gop-agenda-00192379\" target=\"_blank\">outlined a plan for GOP senators in which the policy priorities<\/a> would be split into two parts under budget reconciliation rules, which would allow the GOP to bypass a Democratic filibuster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Freedom Caucus is throwing its weight behind a two-step, party-line policy push, with the ultra-conservative bloc calling for an initial bill to address border security that\u2019s fully paid for and a second push for tax and other policy priorities. \u201cBorder security must move first \u2014 and then we should move forward to a [&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-3631","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\/3631","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=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}