Republicans are pressure for more bills of reconciliation before 2026 midterms

The Senate Republicans plan to take another crack during the budget reconciliation process after having narrowly adopted the “big, big bill” of President Donald Trump earlier this month.

The legislative giant of 3.3 billions of dollars, which permanently extended many provisions of the tax on tax reductions and the jobs of the 2017 President and included work reforms and requirements for medicadid and food aid programs, and billions of expenditure for the defense and security of border, only the Senate using the Vice-President JD Vance.

Now legislators look at the exhausting process for another.

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Senator Rick Scott calls for another reconciliation bill. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Senator Ron JohnsonOne of the main holpouts that ultimately supported the bill, said that he had gained good confidence in the management of the White House, Trump and the Senate that the Republicans “would have a second bite of the apple”.

“I think I have a commitment,” said the Republican of Wisconsin. “They will do it, and we will define a process, line by line, program by program.”

“Another reason for which I had to vote” yes “is that I would have just getting involved in this process, and I want to be very involved in this for the next process,” he continued.

And Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., Another fiscal hawk who was suspicious of supporting the bill but who finally voted for this, told Fox News Digital: “I think we have to make one more this year, so we will see if that’s what’s going on.”

Johnson has hypothesized that legislators could attack the process, which allows the Republicans to bypass the 60 -voting flicker threshold in the Senate, but must comply with the strict Senate rules, during the next financial year, which begins in October.

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Senator Ron Johnson talks to the journalists of the American Capitol after the room adopted the Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

The senator has an ally in a room speaker Mike JohnsonR-La., Which shortly after the “big, beautiful bill”, went outside the house and on the desk of Trump said: “We are going to start again.”

“We are going to have a second package of reconciliation in the fall and a third in next year,” said Johnson on “The Ingraham Angle” of Fox News.

The representative Ralph Norman, RS.C., another tax hawk who criticized the modifications of the Senate in the initial reconciliation bill, but voted for this, said that another reconciliation bill was “absolutely” possible.

He is looking for more spending cuts and more ends for “government gifts”, but noted that the imminent electoral season in 2026, however, put them on a short chronology.

“(Trump) will have a better chance now, because you do not have to face the obstruction, where you can get 50% more. If there is a chance to do it, we must do it now, because the intermediate expressions arrive in the middle of next year. So we must really push for the next eight months,” said Norman.

Initially, the Senate Republicans had pushed a track of two TRUCs, which, according to the speaker, would not be achievable in the room due to variable factions and red lines throughout the conference.

But now, the leaders of the Senate can be more cautious given the series of obstacles confronted in the upper chamber in the coming months, in particular by making a packet of claws of $ 9.4 billion this week which is already facing the opposite of the pockets of the Senate Republicans.

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Senator Lisa Murkowski at the American Capitol on July 1, 2025. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

A senior GOP assistant told Fox News Digital that the majority leader in the Senate John ThuneRS.D., was open to another set of reconciliation, but “is strongly focused on the sale of the last bill and the highlighting of everything it does”.

“At this point, it is premature to think even what could be in a second,” said the assistant.

Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., Told Fox News Digital that “we want to make another reconciliation package”, and echoed the speaker’s feeling that more could be done.

First of all, however, legislators must go through the fight for the financing of the government with the Democrats of the Senate.

Currently, the Senate spending panels are undergoing markings on the dozen financing bills necessary to maintain the lights of the government, but Mullin, which chairs the sub-comity of credits of the legislative management, thought that another extension of the government’s financing was on the horizon.

“It seems that we are screaming directly to a (continuous resolution), and we must have, we will have to understand how to avoid a closure of Schumer, because they will not be useful to pass it,” he said.

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Having each Republican of the Senate, or even a majority, to move forward with reconciliation can be a challenge.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was the key vote which advanced the first crack in the Senate during reconciliation to the room, after hours of ground negotiations and rewrite arrangements which would give a boost to Alaska were added to the package.

But she seemed disinterested to take another crack in the intensive process.

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