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Big tax-cut and spending agenda

CQ Budget, Episode No. 335

Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is pushing for a two-pronged reconciliation process to pass border security and other spending and then tax cuts next year.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is pushing for a two-pronged reconciliation process to pass border security and other spending and then tax cuts next year. (Bill Clark/ CQ Roll Call)

Republicans are preparing to use the budget reconciliation process to push border security, tax cuts and more on party-line votes next year. CQ Roll Call’s Caitlin Reilly, Aidan Quigley and David Lerman outline what GOP leaders have in mind and the challenges they face. They also have the latest on plans for a stopgap funding and disaster relief measure needed by next week.

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