WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional Republicans face an urgent reality: there is no path to 60 votes in the Senate on critical legislation before November, and waiting for one is not a strategy. The Democrat-driven DHS shutdown and the Senate’s stonewalling of the SAVE America Act have removed all doubt.
Democrats did not hesitate to pass two reconciliation bills when they held the majority, and Republicans must do the same. With the window closing fast, the Republican Study Committee is drawing the line: reconciliation is the only path forward.
Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger and House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington made the case for a second reconciliation bill in an exclusive with Fox News HERE or read a snippet below:
Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, pointed out that there was precedent — Democrats passed two reconciliation bills themselves when they last controlled Congress at the beginning of former President Joe Biden’s term. “We should remind ourselves that they stuck together, and they were able to do that. So should we,” he said.
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said he believed an additional funding package for Iran was inevitable but added, “The politics are such that there’s no guarantee that the supplemental will pass.”
“On top of that, the president has been talking about a big capital investment to modernize the military,” Arrington told Fox News Digital.
“If we can’t get Democrats to support either of those endeavors — I think we’ve got a better chance of getting support on an emergency supplemental than we do on a one-time capital investment — but I think that reconciliation may be the only train leaving the station that could address those important things.”