RSC Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) said in a statement that the first bill was a “generational victory” and the GOP needs to “capitalize on the momentum” from the first six months of the Republican trifecta.

“To fulfill the promises we made to the American people, conservatives must begin laying the groundwork for the second reconciliation bill to ensure we continue to drive down the cost of living and restore America’s promise for future generations,” Pfluger said.

Lawmakers will use the August recess to message on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and receive feedback and suggestions from constituents on how to navigate a second reconciliation bill. The RSC working group will take policy proposals from committee members and outside grassroots groups as recommendations to formulate the bill.

Creating a second reconciliation bill will be much easier said than done. Crafting the first spending bill took over 14 months, long before the trifecta was in power, and Republicans worked up until the absolute last minute, setting record-breaking floor times.

Republican leadership spent months negotiating with both centrist lawmakers and conservative fiscal hawks as they strived to create a product that would earn them 218 votes in the House and 50 votes in the Senate.

Proposed changes to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and the state and local tax deduction cap stalled the process multiple times over the last few months, at one point leading to votes being held overnight for hours as a handful of GOP lawmakers refused to vote for procedural measures unless their demands were answered.

Some fiscal hawks have expressed an eagerness to find additional savings and cut wasteful government spending in a second bill, but other conservatives are as skeptical as establishment Republicans that this could be done as monumentally as it was the first time.

Johnson has said the major tax and spending bill is just the beginning, and a second and possibly third reconciliation bill would be in the works ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Republicans are eager to keep hold of their trifecta, as the last time Republicans held one was from 2017 to 2019 during President Donald Trump’s first term. The GOP aimed for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to be the crowning achievement of the first two years of Trump’s second term.

‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ 2.0 COULD SET UP FISCAL HAWKS FOR MORE DISAPPOINTMENT

Republican leaders have acknowledged that the failure of trifectas, including theirs, is waiting until the last two years of an administration to make a significant change. Historically, in the midterm elections, the House flips to the party opposite the White House as the party’s high favor with voters begins to fade with each passing week due to contentious legislation, infighting, or executive actions by the president.

A second reconciliation bill could be a double-edged sword for the GOP, as Democrats market the “big beautiful bill” as dangerous and beneficial to the rich only. If Republicans can successfully pass a second spending bill, that doubles the ammunition for Democrats to use against them. Failure to do so, as well, hands Democrats a golden opportunity for messaging.