Senate’s Thune Seeks Second Megabill Ideas: BGOV Tax

Thune Seeks Second Megabill Ideas

Senate GOP leadership isn’t ruling out a second take at partisan legislation that is advanced through the budget reconciliation process, though there are considerable obstacles, Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said.

Thune told reporters that leadership has “encouraged our relevant committees to come up with ideas on potentially something could be in a recon 2.0 bill.”

However, he acknowledged that the party could only lose a few senators to utilize the expedited reconciliation process that allows lawmakers to avoid the 60-vote Senate filibuster threshold. The margin is even tighter in the fractious House, where leadership ...