Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans.

The first rule of closed-door meetings is that you don't talk about what was said in closed-door meetings.

But apparently, that isn't known up on Capitol Hill. So, Trump and

most of the Republican Party wants to use the budget reconciliation process to get a whole

bunch of things done at once. As Trump called it, one big, beautiful bill. However, it might be two bills, or maybe not.

That was the subject of the closed-door meeting.

Senate Republicans seem to want two bills.

House Republicans seem to want one.

Trump?

Well, it depends on the day.

And now it seems like he's given up trying to sway the

process. At least, that's what it looks like from the information coming out. Here's the problem with

this. They have incredibly small majorities. Everybody has to be in agreement to make this work. I'll put an

explainer on the budget reconciliation process below, and it's probably time to get familiar with it.

But the short version is that there are a couple of steps to the process. The first step is to put together a non-binding

budget resolution that has to pass both the House and the Senate. That resolution outlines their

goals. If they can't agree on whether they want to use one or two bills, imagine what's going to happen when it gets to

what actually goes into the resolution. If they get done with that, committees have to draft

their parts, and then it's compiled to create the legislation. If anybody adds something outside the rules, it gets bird bathed.

Just watch the explainer. Then almost every Republican in Congress has to agree to the finished product.

Many Republicans in the House and Senate have single issues that might cause them to vote against

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