{"id":38821,"date":"2026-04-23T00:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/38821\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:59:06","slug":"gop-split-on-accepting-skinny-reconciliation-bill-or-pushing-for-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/38821\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP split on accepting skinny reconciliation bill or pushing for more"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Republicans<\/a> are divided over whether to accept a narrow Senate reconciliation<\/a> bill to fund border enforcement or risk derailing it in pursuit of broader legislation.<\/p>\n

The Senate on Tuesday moved forward with a plan to provide up to $70 billion for Immigration<\/a> and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, using a party-line process known as reconciliation that bypasses the 60-vote filibuster threshold. House Republicans<\/a> are now trying to decide if they will follow in lockstep.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we\u2019re in a position where we\u2019re having to look at this whole reconciliation thing and whether it\u2019s going to be a skinny reconciliation, which is really frustrating to a lot of my colleagues and myself as well, very frustrating, because this is a tool that we as a majority should be able to utilize,\u201d Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) told the Washington Examiner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTo burn, if you will, reconciliation on simply funding all of Department of Homeland Security, which is crazy to me, but obviously we\u2019re going to have to do it,\u201d Harris said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has signaled he is willing to accept the narrower approach, even as he blamed Democrats for the DHS funding shortfall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough a targeted and narrow reconciliation process, we will fully fund the agency, including ICE and CPP for three years in the future,\u201d Johnson said at a Tuesday press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, some Republicans are reluctant to give up leverage for a more expansive package \u2014 particularly as hopes for a third reconciliation bill fade amid slim margins and the approaching November elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdeally, we\u2019d love to have three reconciliation packages,\u201d Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) told the Washington Examiner. \u201cWe\u2019d love to take care of everything. The question is, can we actually fund DHS in the short term, before we run out of money?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to weigh the difference between ideal and pragmatic,\u201d McCormick said. \u201cAnd I think what we\u2019ve come to the conclusion is we still have a lot of work to do to bring in all parts of our party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others worry that accepting a scaled-down bill now could mean forfeiting any chance at a larger legislative win later.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt comes back down to the Senate,\u201d Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) told the Washington Examiner. \u201cI mean, can we trust the Senate to do a round three on reconciliation? If we did the skinny one, will they come back? So I think we need to have some sort of a hook to get a third one to get through the Senate as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stutzman said the hook for the third bill could come from a supplemental military request for the war in Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), meanwhile, said Republicans should seize the moment to go bigger if possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think every Republican recognizes we have to fund the Department of Homeland Security,\u201d Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) told the Washington Examiner. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a conflict in Iran. We\u2019ve got deportations that we ran on, and we need to fund it properly. What I\u2019d love to see is the Senate get around the filibuster to pass it the way it should be passed, but short of that, reconciliation is the way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gill went on to emphasize Republicans should \u201ctake the opportunity\u201d to address troubles such as election integrity and tax policy rather than passing up \u201cgood opportunities for big legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I would love to do reconciliation 3.0,\u201d Gill said. \u201cCandidly, I\u2019m skeptical that that\u2019s going to materialize.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Republicans are divided over whether to accept a narrow Senate reconciliation bill to fund border enforcement or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[490,491,478,5233,1076,494,5156],"class_list":{"0":"post-38821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mike-johnson","8":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","9":"tag-house-of-representatives","10":"tag-mike-johnson","11":"tag-reconciliation","12":"tag-republicans","13":"tag-senate","14":"tag-speaker-mike-johnson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116451315884734631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}