By james art 
Republicans of the Chamber and the Senate draw competitive courses for the implementation of President Trump’s best items, including enhancement of security funds along the US southern border and expanding tax cuts.
The Senate Budget Committee is expected to launch a budget resolution on Wednesday, which begins the reconciliation process to provide $ 175 billion to secure the southern border and $ 150 billion in new military spending.
“There will be enough money for four years to implement President Trump’s bordergulations, the security immigration program,” budget chairman Lindsay Graham told Capitol reporters on Tuesday.
Graham spoke after a closed -door briefing with other GOP senators, Omb director Ross Wait and the border Tom Homan. He said the couple asked for additional funding and said that immigration and application of customs (ICE) was running out of money.
“After this briefing, if the Republican Party cannot provide the Trump administration’s money to do all the things they have to do to do us safe, we have no one to blame,” Graham said. “Because we have the ability through reconciliation to do this and I just want to do it earlier than later.”
One or two accounts, this is the question
The Senate Republicans want to approach an approach with two boxes to act faster on the priorities of the President at the border, and then to return later this year to deal with the expansion of tax reduction. The GOP senators expressed concern that combining these items into a bill risks making it too complex and unpleasant to pass quickly.
“To my friends in the house – we are moving because we have to,” said Graham, Rs.C. “I wish you the best. I want a big beautiful account, but I cannot and will not go back to South Carolina and justify that I do not support the immigration plan of the president.”
In the Capitol, Republican Chamber leaders are pushing an approach with a glove that covers the best priorities of the administration such as immigration, energy, defense and taxes.
The chamber has different reasons from the Senate. GOP members say that putting the tax component in a separate account along the way can threaten it completely.
Domestic Republicans have a thin razor majority and it is difficult enough to satisfy the various factions within the conference to get on board with one bill, let alone two.
“This is non-standard,” said Chamber Chairman Mike Johnson, R-LA. Johnson also said he was turning to the ceiling of the debt, something Trump had asked would be part of the home plan.
But the Johnson conference has not yet been aligned with how to take the approach with one hand. The speaker’s plan was already undermined earlier this week when The Hardline House Freedom Caucus released its own budget resolution, representing the first of a two-step reconciliation plan.
“Given the present delay in the Chamber to relocate a comprehensive reconciliation bill, the relocation of a smaller target bill now has the most important way to bring a victory for the president and the American people,” said President Andy Harris, R-MD. A statement.
Previously, Trump expressed support for a one-time path, but also said he was less interested in the process and more that this was done.
Key to Allow Budget to Unlock Reconciliation
Both chambers work for a budget instrument called reconciliation to achieve their political goals.
Reconciliation is a process that allows some types of legislation to pass with a simple majority and avoid the threat of Philibuster, which requires 60 senators to overcome. This is the same mechanism that the Democrats of Congress have used to hand over parts of the legislative program to former President Joe Biden.
Republicans have 53 places in the Senate and cannot expect support from the Democrats to overcome them over the threshold of 60 votes, so they turn to reconciliation.
The first step in this process is a budget resolution that directs various committees to develop legislation that achieves certain budget goals. Committees write these bills to achieve specific goals, and then the budget committee assembles these bills together in a large bill that cannot be Philibuster.
Graham said on Tuesday that committees would also be directed to find compensation to pay for other priorities such as defense.
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