President-elect Trump is leaving the rest of his GOP trifecta hanging on their reconciliation stalemate. President-elect Trump is leaving the rest of his GOP trifecta hanging on their reconciliation stalemate. Why it matters: Republican leaders on both sides of the Capitol have no interest in going against Trump. He has the power to quickly end this debate, but that's no closer after Wednesday's meeting with the Senate GOP. • Trump pitched the idea of a single "beautiful bill," Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told reporters after the meeting. That's where the...

President-elect Trump pointed to a strategic benefit of the one-bill approach to budget reconciliation that he's said he prefers during a closed-door meeting with Republican senators on Wednesday evening at the Capitol. By combining legislation relating to both the southern border crisis and taxes into one reconciliation bill, Trump suggested that one issue could potentially force some lawmakers to make a difficult decision. For example, if a Republican doesn't support a piece of the tax component, they would also have to vote against the border provisions because they are in...

Trump speaks at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Tuesday. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images House Republicans are already laying down potential dealbreakers for the massive fiscal legislation President-elect Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are planning. Why it matters: The chamber is set to have a roughly two-vote majority when the package is voted on, meaning just a handful of GOP defections could sink the entire initiative. • Republican factions — both in the House and Senate — are already at each others' throats on...

President-elect Trump will meet with Republicans in the Senate on Wednesday as he prepares to take office again at the end of the month and hit the ground running on his agenda. The Trump transition team confirmed the meeting with the Senate GOP, who are now in control of the upper chamber, to Fox News Digital. The president-elect is being hosted for the huddle by the chairwoman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., her office said. Trump will be in Washington, D.C., this week for...

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Congressional Republicans are still waiting on more guidance from Donald Trump on their complex legislative priorities, as the incoming president is set to meet with senators on Wednesday. On the House side: Speaker Mike Johnson pressed his disparate House Republican conference in a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning to stay united, as the party has struggled to get on the same page regarding how to pass GOP priorities including the border, energy and tax cuts. In the meeting, Johnson didn’t delve into the details of his one-track reconciliation strategy, according to...

Trump is going to deal with the deficit and the debt limit by minting the trillion dollar platinum coins. And he won’t do it quietly -— he will brag about it, about he is the first to think of it, that it is a BRILLIANT idea, Faux News will back him up, along with all the billionaires and the crank economists. Just wait.

It's a "rocky road ahead" for Republicans as Donald Trump pushes the party to include his biggest priorities all in one bill, CNN reports. Per the report, members of the party "are publicly and privately acknowledging the enormous task ahead in tying together a sprawling package that includes new immigration laws, energy policies and a complex tax overhaul – along with an increase of the national debt limit and spending cuts to federal programs." Some of the hurdles ahead include the fact that "they’ll have to maintain near total unanimity...

The American people delivered President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda a mandate in November’s presidential election, and with Republicans in control of the House, Senate, and the White House, Trump is looking to deliver. Over the weekend, Trump announced his support for passing large swaths of his agenda in a single budget reconciliation bill. Trump’s support for a single bill is set to energize the president-elect’s backers with his ambitious proposed measures to shut down the open southern border, lower energy prices, and tackle the downtrodden economy.