Thune soft-pedals adding Trump’s request for debt limit curveball to GOP budget bill
Republicans want to pass the bill through budget reconciliation, a parliamentary procedure that allows some tax and spending measures to skirt the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold. “That would be a whole new front in the conversation, which I don’t think anybody’s really contemplated it yet.”Advertisement Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed last year by Republicans through reconciliation, raised the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. The majority leader, instead, floated the possibility of addressing the debt limit after the elections.“I don’t think we hit it until mid-next year, or at least first or second quarter next year.
- ▪Republicans want to pass the bill through budget reconciliation, a parliamentary procedure that allows some tax and spending measures to skirt the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold.
- ▪“That would be a whole new front in the conversation, which I don’t think anybody’s really contemplated it yet.”Advertisement Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed last year by Republicans through reconciliation, raised the debt ceilin
- ▪The majority leader, instead, floated the possibility of addressing the debt limit after the elections.“I don’t think we hit it until mid-next year, or at least first or second quarter next year.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) raised doubts Tuesday on whether there was sufficient GOP support for President Donald Trump’s push to lift the debt ceiling through the latest party-line spending proposal.Thune told reporters that adding a provision to lift the borrowing cap would complicate the already narrow math for passing the $95 billion budget framework, which includes new defense spending and money for voter integrity initiatives. Republicans want to pass the bill through budget reconciliation, a parliamentary procedure that allows some tax and spending measures to skirt the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold.
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