The Senate will move forward with a budget blueprint next week setting out a two-track approach to enacting President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, key senators said Wednesday.
The announcement, made by Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) inside a closed-door Senate GOP lunch, comes after a competing framework from Speaker Mike Johnson and other House Republican leaders has stalled in recent days due to internal conflicts in that chamber.
Graham made a presentation on the blueprint he plans to advance, which will tee-up the Senate’s two-part reconciliation strategy — starting with a border, energy and defense bill. A tax-focused package would follow.
“I wouldn’t faint with surprise if we marked up next week,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a Budget Committee member, coming out of the lunch. A person in the meeting confirmed the Budget Committee plans to vote next week.