House Republican Study Committee Chair August Pfluger said Tuesday he “fully expect[s]” Congress to have completed work on a sweeping party-line policy package by August recess.
“The speaker is fully briefed on our ideas,” the Texas Republican said in an interview of the RSC’s framework for a budget reconciliation bill, which would follow the GOP’s tax and spending megabill last year and the immigration enforcement funding legislation President Donald Trump wants on his desk by June 1. “We are starting our meetings in earnest this week and I expect that we’re going to have some very good discussions.”
Pflugers added he has “produced some timelines that we think are reasonable to get this done by the end of the July period” — an aggressive timetable given the continued disagreements in a narrowly-divided Republican Conference about what a “reconciliation 3.0” effort should entail.