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(157,285 posts) Wed Jul 9, 2025, 06:56 AM Jul 9

GOP budget chair vows to 'make another run' at Trump policies cut from budget

Source: Raw Story

July 8, 2025 7:00PM ET

Several provisions of President Donald Trump's mega-budget bill that were cut for parliamentary reasons could resurface in future legislation, Politico reported Tuesday.

House Budget Chair Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) told the outlet during a news conference that Republican lawmakers are formulating a plan to include parts of the bill that violated the Byrd Rule in future legislation. The Byrd Rule requires that all aspects of a budget bill must have direct impacts on spending or revenue, and cannot include extraneous matters like domestic or foreign policy.

Several parts of Trump's budget bill did not align with the Byrd Rule, according to the Senate parliamentarian. Some examples include a moratorium on federal AI regulations for 10 years, provisions that restrain judicial powers, and energy permitting regulations.

"I think we should make another run at that and look for ways to structure the provisions so that it’s more fundamentally budgetary in impact and policy,” Arrington told Politico on Tuesday. “I suspect that’s why they were kicked out.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2672974489/

Several notes -

Politico (the source of the original article) reported this in their "Live Updates" section that cannot be used in LBN

The "reconciliation" process has 3 types of budget options - "taxes" (revenue), "spending" (appropriations), and "debt" (e.g., debt ceiling). The big caveat of using this process since it is supposed to reflect an outline of an ANNUAL budget (and in this case, a long-term one taking place over a period up to 10 years), using a "reconciliation" process can ONLY happen ONCE each fiscal year. In addition, the 3 types can be standalone as one type, or can be any combo of 2 or 3 types, but again, each type or combo can only be done ONCE per fiscal year (the 45 BBB used all 3 types as a combo and was enacted as of this FY).

The federal fiscal year ends September 30 and a new one begins on October 1st, so once we flip into October, we are now in a new fiscal year and this process can begin ANEW. I.e., they can draft a new "reconciliation" package - again either as a standalone or any combo of 2 or 3 of the types.

So stay tuned because I expect (per remarks noted by this article) they are going to make another pass at this after October 1st, to try to rework and slide stuff rejected the last time, into a new bill (or bills).