Eric McDaniel
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first heard Mar 2026
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But House Republicans also, A, passed a fourth thing this week, a budget framework, which is in theory a setup for an eventual reconciliation bill in a few months.
That would contain more money for the president's war in Iran, for farmers, for his election overhaul bill.
And it's actually exempt from that 60-vote threshold.
Republicans don't need Democrats at all to pass that.
But Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he's holding off on passing it anyway.
Well, Thune wants a government funding backup plan if he can't strike a deal with Senate Democrats on keeping the government open past the midterm elections.
And so he might decide that he wants to transform this party line reconciliation framework already passed by the House.
into a government funding bill.
Not to mention the bill has Trump's election overhaul wish list tacked on the Save America Act, which, among other things, would ban mail in voting across the country and require proof of citizenship before you can register to vote.
I should say that probably doesn't qualify under the rules to pass with just a simple majority and has already failed in the Senate several times.
Yeah, they might be in the same building, but they're also kind of in totally different worlds.
Speaker Mike Johnson has, percentage-wise, a considerably smaller margin for error, maybe just a two-vote majority at any given time, depending on absences.
He's got a large hard right flank to deal with and a closer relationship than John Thune with President Trump.
Senate leader John Thune has to keep more Democrats on board for legislation and deal with generally more free-agent, free-spirited set of legislators, the kind that become U.S.
senators.
So they're juggling a pretty different set of circumstances as they try and keep the plates spinning.
I guess not anytime soon.
The Senate will at least consider some of this before they leave town for recess next week, make their changes and send whatever they can pass back to the House.
Speaker Mike Johnson, for his part, will see if his members can stomach those changes after the long August recess.
And they'll try again in the fall when you have me back.
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