DORAL, Florida — House Republicans expressed optimism here Monday about breakthroughs on thorny budget reconciliation negotiations.
As lawmakers gather this week at President Donald Trump’s Florida resort, the party faces a multitude of unresolved issues for their party-line bill.
They have not yet landed on a top-line number for a budget resolution, much less specific reconciliation policies like which clean energy incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act could be repealed and how Republicans can create spending offsets through increased oil and gas revenues.
Despite such hurdles, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters that he’s sticking to a self-imposed deadline to pass a budget resolution through both chambers of Congress by Feb. 24, a necessary first step to jump-start the upcoming party-line reconciliation process. Such bills need only simple majorities in both chambers to pass but are constrained by budgetary rules.
