'one More': Senate Republicans Eye Tackling Another Reconciliation Bill

Senate Republicans are readying to return different ace astatine nan fund reconciliation process aft narrowly passing President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" earlier this month.

The $3.3 trillion legislative behemoth, which permanently extended galore of nan provisions of nan president’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and included reforms and activity requirements for Medicaid and nutrient assistance programs, and billions successful spending for defense and separator security, only passed nan Senate pinch nan assistance of Vice President JD Vance.

Now, lawmakers are eying different changeable astatine nan grueling process.

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Sen. Rick Scott is calling for different reconciliation bill. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Sen. Ron Johnson, 1 of nan cardinal holdouts that yet backed nan bill, said he gained a adjacent magnitude of assurance from nan White House, Trump and Senate GOP activity that Republicans would "have a 2nd wound of nan apple."

"I deliberation I beautiful good person a commitment," nan Wisconsin Republican said. "They're going to do that, and we're going to group a process, statement by line, programme by program."

"Another logic why I decidedly had to ballot ‘yes’ is I would person conscionable dealt myself retired of being progressive successful that process, and I want to beryllium highly progressive successful that for nan adjacent process," he continued.

And Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., different fiscal hawk that was wary of supporting nan measure but yet voted for it, told Fox News Digital, "I deliberation we still person to decidedly do 1 much this year, truthful we'll spot if that's what happens."

Johnson speculated that lawmakers could tackle nan process, which allows Republicans to skirt nan 60-vote filibuster period successful nan Senate but must comply pinch stringent Senate rules, successful nan upcoming fiscal year, which originates successful October.  

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Sen. Ron Johnson talks pinch reporters successful nan U.S. Capitol aft nan House passed nan One Big Beautiful Bill Act connected May 22, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The legislator has an state successful House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who soon aft nan "big, beautiful bill" passed retired of nan House and onto Trump’s table said, "We’re going to do this again."  

"We’re gonna person a 2nd reconciliation package successful nan autumn and a 3rd successful nan outpouring of adjacent year," Johnson said connected Fox News’ "The Ingraham Angle."

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., different fiscal hawk who criticized nan Senate's changes to nan first reconciliation measure but voted for it successful nan end, said different reconciliation measure was "absolutely" feasible.

He’s gunning for much spending cuts and much ends to "government giveaways," but noted nan looming 2026 predetermination play put them connected a short timeline, however.

"[Trump will] person a amended chance now, because you don't person to woody pinch nan filibuster, wherever you tin get 50% positive one. If there's ever a chance to do it, we request to do it now, because nan midterms are coming up successful nan mediate of adjacent year. So really we request to push for nan adjacent 8 months," Norman said.

Initially, Senate Republicans had pushed for a two-bill track, thing that nan speaker said would not beryllium feasible successful nan House because of nan varying factions, and reddish lines, passim nan conference.

But now Senate activity whitethorn beryllium much cautious fixed nan bid of hurdles facing nan precocious enclosure successful nan coming months, including advancing a $9.4 cardinal clawback package this week which is already facing headwinds among pockets of Senate Republicans.  

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski astatine nan U.S. Capitol connected July 1, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

A elder GOP adjutant told Fox News Digital that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., was unfastened to different reconciliation package, but "is heavy focused connected trading nan past measure and highlighting each it does."

"At this constituent it’s premature to moreover deliberation of what could beryllium successful a 2nd one," nan adjutant said.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital that "we want to do 1 much reconciliation package," and echoed nan speaker’s sentiment that much could beryllium done.

First, however, lawmakers person to get done nan looming authorities backing conflict pinch Senate Democrats.

Currently, Senate spending panels are going done mark-ups connected nan twelve backing bills needed to support nan government’s lights on, but Mullin, who chairs nan Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, believed that different authorities backing hold was connected nan horizon.

"It looks for illustration we're screaming consecutive toward a [continuing resolution], and we person to have, we're going to person to fig retired really to debar a Schumer shutdown, because they're not going to beryllium adjuvant successful passing it," he said.

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Getting each Senate Republican, aliases moreover a majority, to spell guardant pinch reconciliation erstwhile much whitethorn beryllium a challenge.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was nan cardinal ballot that precocious nan Senate’s first ace astatine reconciliation backmost to nan House, aft hours of level negotiations and rewritten provisions that would springiness a boost to Alaska were added to nan package.

But she seemed disinterested successful taking different ace astatine nan intensive process.

"No, no," Murkowski told Fox News Digital. "I want to legislate."