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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. Can Republicans in Congress hang

together to pass a budget and extend the 2017 tax cuts? That's the big question of the 119th Congress.

And so far, the answer is yes, they're making progress. But the road ahead gets rougher, especially as Democrats,

pull out their old, reliable, and target the Republican plans to reform entitlements specifically this year, Medicaid.

So the battle over priorities in Congress is our subject for today on Potomac Watch.

Welcome, I'm Paul as you go of the Wall Street Journal

Opinion Pages, and I'm here with my colleagues Kate Batchelder, O'Dell and Alicia Finley, who

cover these issues for us. So let's start with this week's vote in the House of Representatives

on something called a budget resolution, just to get a little technical for you.

This is the bill that's not a budget itself.

It's a bill that has an outline of a budget, and it allows the Congress to trigger a process

by which the Republican Party, the majority, can pass a budget with a lot of details, taxes, and spending

with 51 Senate votes instead of going through a Senate filibuster of 60 votes, which would be

blocked by the Democrat. So this is very important to the whole Republican agenda, the whole Trump

agenda. And there's real questions about whether they could even

pass this in the House with its narrow majority. Now, they did this week, 217 to 215, with only a single Republican, Thomas Massey, of Kentucky, in dissent. Of course, he votes no on everything. So that's not a surprise. But Kate, what's the lesson here of this vote?

Well, look, I think we're seeing that Republicans are starting perhaps to understand that they do

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