Senate GOP Threatens to Extend Recess Fight Over $95 Billion Package
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 3
Senate GOP Threatens to Extend Recess Fight Over $95 Billion Package
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 3
Summary
James Lankford said Senate Republicans will work past Friday's planned August recess unless they finish three priorities: a government funding stopgap, more than 70 Trump judicial nominees and a $95 billion reconciliation bill.
That package includes election-related provisions in the SAVE America Act, but Lankford acknowledged the reconciliation process takes weeks even after the House cleared an initial procedural step.
John Thune has said Republicans lack the votes to bypass a filibuster on the voter-ID measure, underscoring the gap between Trump's push for the bill and the Senate's procedural limits.
The recess is scheduled to run through Sept. 14, but multiple GOP senators have urged Thune to cancel it as Republicans also wrestle with internal divisions over the $95 billion package's defense spending and debt impact.
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