The House Freedom Caucus released a budget resolution on Feb. 10 that would allocate hundreds of billions of dollars toward spending on defense and the border in addition to raising the debt ceiling.
The 45-page legislative text mirrors the first part of the conservative caucus’s proposal released last month that calls for a two-step reconciliation approach in passing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.
Reconciliation allows for measures related to taxing, spending, and the national debt to pass Congress without being subject to the 60-vote filibuster threshold in the Senate that most legislation has to clear.
A budget resolution must pass both houses of Congress in order to allow a reconciliation bill to be voted on. While budget resolutions do not require the president’s signature, a bill passed through reconciliation does….