‘Big, beautiful bill’ 2.0 gets floated as the first one has yet to pass

Published June 5, 2025 5:30am ET | Updated July 13, 2026 2:05pm ET



House Republicans are already teasing the idea of a second budget bill to advance President Donald Trump‘s agenda, even as the Senate has yet to act on his most sweeping priorities.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has offered few details of what might be contained in the package, but when asked by the Washington Examiner he named “fiscal sanity” as the guiding ethos behind the bill.

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