We can get a big reconciliation bill to Trump’s desk by Memorial Day

During Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) said that if Republicans choose to pass a major reconciliation bill, he thinks the House will likely pass it by the end of March. and the bill could be on the president’s desk by Memorial Day.

Host Bret Baier asked, “What about this back and forth about whether there’s — if there’s — a package, a bite of the apple for budget reconciliation, or whether there (are there) two this year to somehow break down immigration and taxes? How do you see this at the moment?

Emmer responded: “Well, it’s Donald Trump’s call. He will soon call and say: this is what I want. And as soon as he does, Bret, we’ll be ready to take things either way.

Emmer continued: “If he wants to do two bills with one in February and that’s where the speaker is going, we’ll do it. And I imagine it will be much shorter, which is why you could do it in a shorter time frame and the second one would probably be sometime before Memorial Day. We could get it out of the House soon enough, but then the Senate would have to do its job.

He concluded: “If it’s one big bill, well, if that’s what the president decides to do, we could probably get it out of the House by the end of March, and if the Senate does its job, we could have this on the President’s desk by Memorial Day.

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