GOP risks ‘big, beautiful bill’ divisions with second reconciliation push

Published March 28, 2026 2:00pm ET



Congressional Republicans are revisiting the same intraparty tensions that turned passage of last year’s “big, beautiful bill” into a drawn-out and politically damaging saga.

Republicans in the House and Senate have begun discussing what might get included in another attempt at reconciliation, the party-line budget process they used to pass President Donald Trump’s tax law. At the top of the list is money for the war in Iran and immigration enforcement. Republicans are also contemplating ways to pass a watered-down version of the SAVE America Act, their flagship election bill.

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