House Republicans met late into the evening Tuesday in Speaker Mike Johnson’s office furiously trying to avoid letting the Senate jump out ahead of them and take any remaining steam out of the House’s “one big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill.
The House is scheduled to be in recess the week of Feb. 17. And under the timetable that Johnson, R-La., initially laid out, the chamber by then would have adopted the budget blueprint needed to write the reconciliation bill, which can bypass the Senate’s 60-vote hurdle.
But there was no sign late Tuesday that the Budget Committee would be ready to mark up the budget resolution this week. “It’s not scheduled for this week.
