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CBO Scores FY 2026 Reconciliation at $72 Billion

The Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Committees released draft reconciliation legislation for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 late last night. The Congressional Budget ...
American Hospital Association

Senate adopts budget resolution, sets up path for narrow reconciliation bill

The Senate April 23 adopted a budget resolution by a 50-48 vote, paving the way for a narrow reconciliation bill focused on ...
The National Law Review

Budget Reconciliation and Health Policy: Understanding the Legislative Process and Where Congress May Go Next

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The Reconciliation Bill Is a Brazen Betrayal of Present and Future Generations

Instead of spending trillions to widen disparities, Congress could have made childcare more affordable, improved the nation’s crumbling housing stock, and created a much-overdue program for paid ...
E&E

Republicans float permitting reform for ‘reconciliation 2.0’

A partisan process could clear the way for new energy policies, but advancing permitting proposals faces bipartisan headwinds. Congressional Republicans are renewing their pursuit of a second ...

House Republicans bristle at Senate-driven DHS plan

House Republicans are not pleased with what is shaping up to be a Senate-driven plan to end the record-long Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, bristling at again being told what to do by ...
New York Post

Speaker Johnson teases two more reconciliation bills after passing One Big Beautiful Bill

House Speaker Mike Johnson is teasing plans to pass two more significant GOP policy bills, over the next year in the same way Congress squeezed out the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Louisiana GOPer ...
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House Republicans unveil framework for second 'big, beautiful bill'

(The Center Square) – Just six months after Republicans in Congress passed their mammoth budget reconciliation bill, House Republicans are publicly pushing for a second ‘big, beautiful bill.’ ...
Agri-Pulse

Reconciliation raises conservation funding long term but at near-term cost

Producer Kate Friesen shows Indiana district conservationist Wes Krug around Singletree Flower Farm in Goshen, Indiana on June 29, 2022. Friesen and her husband received assistance through USDA’s ...
The Hill

One big, beautiful bill deserves another: The case for reconciliation 2.0

On the heels of President Trump’s massive success enacting the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and as Republicans are touting the its victories at events across their districts, Congress is already ...
Washington Examiner

House Republicans announce ‘big, beautiful bill’ 2.0 working group

The dust has not settled since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, but House Republicans have already launched an initiative to plan for a second reconciliation bill. The ...