Shutdown Showdown: GOP Plans Big New Beautiful Bill

With another Schumer Shutdown causing headaches across the fruited plain, a midterm election fast approaching, and hyper-partisan Democrats seemingly determined to block any Republican effort at any cost, the Republican members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are now planning "One Big Beautiful Bill 2 - This Time, it's Personal."

In a hyper-partisan Congress that’s facing midterm elections, Republicans in both chambers have united on a plan to pass a second budget reconciliation bill before the balance of power potentially changes.
Their previous reconciliation bill, the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” focused primarily on President Donald Trump’s tax policies, including permanently extending the increased standard deductions from 2017. It also restrained the growth of Medicaid spending over the next ten years and tightened work requirements for both Medicaid and SNAP.
Now, after two Democrat-instigated government shutdowns – the second of which is ongoing – Republicans are considering including a massive funding boost to immigration enforcement agencies, money for the U.S.-Israeli conflict against Iran and possibly some election changes.
Republicans will likely have to at least partially offset any new spending, however, to appease fiscal hawks, many of whom are still bitter over the $3.3 trillion price tag of the OBBB.

Cutting spending is always good, and to the GOP in Washington, I would only say this: This time, use a chainsaw or an axe, not a scalpel.

There's a catch (there's always a catch): This won't heave the SAVE America Act or its provisions across the finish line.

Additionally, incorporating policies from the SAVE America Act – a voter-ID bill stuck in the Senate – into a reconciliation bill would be difficult, if not impossible.
The Senate’s Byrd Rule prohibits reconciliation bills from including non-budgetary matters, or “extraneous” policies that would not meaningfully add to or reduce the deficit. Otherwise, the privilege of passing the bill in the Senate with only a majority vote would no longer apply.

Pushing the funding issues out of the way may serve to clear the decks, as it were, to allow the House and Senate to work on the SAVE America Act.

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There's some serious strategery, as it were, to be considered here. The Democrats aren't going to agree to anything. If we've learned nothing from two record-setting shutdowns, it's that. So, fine; play their game. Ram the spending bills down their throats - metaphorically speaking, of course - with another One Big Beautiful Bill, passed through the reconciliation process. Then put the SAVE America Act, front and center, focus on that, and that alone, until it passes, by hook or by crook. Use a talking filibuster, or get rid of the filibuster altogether; the Democrats are sure to do so the moment they have a Senate majority. They have said as much, and we should believe them.

It's time to start playing hardball. The Democrats already are. The midterms are fast approaching, and we need the SAVE America Act in place to make sure the elections are honest.

And no breaks or recesses until it's all done. Do your jobs, Congress. Otherwise, it's just another case of "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."

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