
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” House Majority Whip Representative Tom Emmer (R-MN) said that if Republicans choose to pass a larger reconciliation bill, he believes That the House will pass it by the end of March. And the bill could be on the President’s desk by Memorial Day.
Host Brett Baer asked, “What’s the back-and-forth about – is there a package, a bite to the apple, for a budget solution, or there [are] Give this year a break in immigration and taxes? How do you see it now?”
Emmer responded, “Okay, this is Donald Trump’s call. He will call soon and say, this is what I want. And as soon as he does that, Brett, we’re ready to take it either way.
Emmer added, “If he wants to do two bills with one in February and the speaker goes right here, we will get it done. And I think it will be very thin, that’s why you can do it in less time and the second one will probably be sometime before Memorial Day. We can get it out of the House much sooner, but then the Senate has to do its job.
He concluded, “If it’s a big bill, the idea is that if the President decides to do that, we can probably get it out of the House by the end of March, and if the Senate does its job, then “We can have it on the President’s desk by Memorial Day.”
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