Two Bills or One? The GOP's 2025 Strategy Debate

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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As Congress races to avoid a government shutdown before Christmas, Republicans begin to argue about their best approach next year for passing President Trump's agenda. Sen. John Thune wants to use a first reconciliation bill to pass the GOP's top priorities, while reserving a second reconciliation bill for tax reform. Others want the tax bill first or suggest doing it all at once. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:35.3	Congress scrambles once again to fund the federal government as a pre-Christmas shutdown deadline nears.
0:42.8	Plus, the jockeying begins for the GOP's best strategy next year on using the budget reconciliation process to pass President Trump's agenda.
0:52.2	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're
0:55.9	joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Manet Uquay-Brua.
1:02.5	The latest expiration date on funding for the federal government is December 20th, which I must say
1:08.8	feels a little bit grinchy. Nobody wants a Christmas government
1:12.5	shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson has said previously that he has no interest in passing a pre-Christmas
1:19.9	omnibus spending bill. So Kim, how do you see this playing out? What does it look like Congress
1:26.2	is setting itself up to do here?
1:28.2	Yeah. So here we are again. And why are we here? We are here because government is
1:33.5	supposed to, in both the House and the Senate, passed 12 annual appropriations bills, funding
1:39.4	different departments, which then are supposed to be signed by the president. They never get
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