G. William Hoagland is Senior Vice President at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The word “reconciliation” sounds benign, even harmonious. But in Washington, D.C., reconciliation refers to a potent legislative shortcut that allows the party in power to avoid opposition and enact ...

Using the reconciliation process to dig the hole deeper has become an engineering feat with bipartisan concurrence.

The Republican Study Committee has developed a plan to use the reconciliation process to pass major legislation with 51 Senate votes, providing tax relief, reducing housing and energy costs, and ...

Republican control of the White House, U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives presents an opportunity to enact law without the need for bipartisan support. Specifically, congressional ...

President Donald Trump promised House Republicans they would secure the U.S. border through a reconciliation package at a House GOP issues conference Monday at Trump National Doral, his golf course ...

Members of the influential GOP caucus highlighted aspects of a proposed reconciliation package that they say would help 'Make the American Dream Affordable Again' ...

As we await the outcome of the upcoming US elections, we know that whoever controls the White House and Congress will confront one of the biggest tax debates in US history in 2025. It is possible that ...

This year has, unfortunately, provided some excellent illustrations of Congress’s dysfunction. We are currently emerging from a record-long shutdown. Senate Democrats filibustered funding in a doomed ...

President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Budget Committee Republicans are meeting at the White House on Wednesday morning as discussions on how to extend the 2017 ...

The word “reconciliation” sounds benign, even harmonious. But in Washington, D.C., reconciliation refers to a potent legislative shortcut that allows the party in power to avoid opposition and enact ...