Overview
- House GOP leaders released the 47-page $95 billion framework on Wednesday that gives four committees spending ceilings and instructions to draft a reconciliation bill combining defense money, farm aid and election-related grants.
- Speaker Mike Johnson secured the end of a weeks-long conservative floor blockade by promising to attach elements of the SAVE America Act to appropriations and include a form of it in the reconciliation package.
- The blueprint allocates roughly $60 billion for Armed Services, $13 billion for Intelligence, $12 billion for Agriculture and $10 billion for House Administration to fund parts of the SAVE Act implementation.
- Major hurdles remain because several conservative Republicans object to the lack of offsets for the new spending and Senate rules and the parliamentarian are likely to strip or block election provisions in reconciliation.
- The House Budget Committee will mark up the resolution on Thursday with a full-House vote expected next week, and the stalled Senate NDAA fight over the Iran war highlights the narrow and uncertain path to final enactment.