President-elect Trump will be on Capitol Hill on Wednesday at the invitation of Senate Republican leadership, according to three sources familiar with the invitation.
GOP leaders haven’t released the time of the meeting, but Trump has met with Republican senators at their weekly Tuesday Republican policy lunch meeting in the past.
Senate Republican Whip John Barrasso (Wyo.) told reporters Monday that GOP senators would meet with Trump soon to talk about his agenda.
“We’re likely going to meet with the president, relatively shortly, visit with him, talk about what he’d like to have done. We’re all heading in exactly the same direction,” Barrasso told the press gaggle, according to a reporter for Semafor.
The meeting is expected to be more of an opportunity for senators to get face time with Trump than a heavy discussion on strategy or policy details, the three sources told NewsNation.
One of the big questions that needs to be hashed out is whether to move Trump’s agenda in a single budget reconciliation package or break it up into two packages.
Using the budget reconciliation process would allow Republican leaders to circumvent a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has spoken in favor of first moving a budget reconciliation package that would beef up border security and expand fossil fuel production domestically.
He wants the second package to be devoted to extending the expiring Trump tax cuts and reducing spending.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republican leaders, however, would prefer to tackle all of Trump’s major agenda items in a single package.
Senate GOP sources say that House Republican leaders want to avoid going through the arduous task of passing a budget reconciliation bill twice, given their very slim majority.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-meet-senate-republicans-wednesday-235040997.html
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