{"id":2602437,"date":"2026-05-13T20:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-previews-wish-list-for-third-reconciliation-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:23:20","slug":"white-house-previews-wish-list-for-third-reconciliation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-previews-wish-list-for-third-reconciliation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"White House previews wish list for third reconciliation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-previews-wish-list-for-third-reconciliation-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2602437&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House,led by legislative director James Braid,believes Republicans could pass a third budget reconciliation bill this year to fund national security priorities and elements of a stalled GOP election integrity proposal.While a second reconciliation bill is still being developed-after Republicans used reconciliation last year for tax cuts plus border security and defense-GOP leaders are already discussing a \u201cthird bullet\u201d as a potential way to advance additional legislation without crossing the Senate\u2019s 60-vote filibuster threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Braid emphasized that the core of a future reconciliation package should include defense needs for threats from China and Iran,and replacing or strengthening the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-kathleen-hicks-as-deputy-defense-secretary\/\" title=\"Senate Confirms Kathleen Hicks as Deputy ... Secretary\">defense industrial base<\/a>. He also suggested that, even with criticism over where Secret Service money woudl go in the second reconciliation bill, the White House sees those funds as broader security upgrades for the White House complex rather than funding for the \u201cballroom\u201d project associated with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are also weighing whether a third reconciliation bill could incorporate parts of the SAVE America Act, including proof-of-citizenship for voter registration and voter ID at the ballot box-measures that passed the House but stalled in the Senate. Braid said the White House continues to press Republican senators to consider abandoning the filibuster so that Democrats would face the same procedural pressure if they held power. He added that reconciliation 3.0 could <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >potentially include additional anti-fraud provisions building<\/a> on Vice President JD Vance\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/half-of-pandemic-unemployment-money-from-past-year-stolen-bulk-of-it-in-foreign-hands-report\/\" title=\"Half Of Pandemic Unemployment Money From Past Year Stolen,  \u2018Bulk\u2019 Of It In Foreign Hands:\u00a0Report\">fraud task force<\/a>, while the White house remains focused on getting \u201cRecon 2\u201d across first.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>The White House is optimistic that Republicans can pass a third party-line bill through the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/reconciliation\/\">reconciliation<\/a> process this year to secure funding for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-security\/\">national security<\/a> and parts of a GOP election integrity bill that has stalled, according to White House legislative director James Braid.<\/p>\n<p>Although Republicans have not yet passed their second reconciliation bill, which will include funding for immigration enforcement and the Secret Service, GOP leaders are already looking ahead to the prospect of another piece of legislation that can bypass the 60-vote threshold in the Senate using reconciliation.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4566922\/walz-admin-accused-whistleblowers-racist-somali-fraudsters-minnesota-report\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Walz administration accused whistleblowers of being \u2018racist\u2019 against Somali fraudsters: Oversight report<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4565549\/gop-heartburn-forces-message-pivot-money-trump-ballroom\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>GOP heartburn forces messaging pivot from \u2018ballroom\u2019 for Trump security money<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance\/4564580\/hochul-new-york-city-budget-gap-mamdani\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Hochul sends NYC another $4 billion to help close city\u2019s budget gap<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cAny reconciliation bill is going to have to deal with the incredibly important needs of our national defense, as we face new threats from China, from Iran, from various corners of the globe, and ensuring that the American defense industrial base is at its strongest, is able to meet the needs of the force structure and the force posture of the president\u2019s national security strategy and the groundbreaking work they\u2019re doing over there at DOW,\u201d Braid told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in an interview this week, referring to the Pentagon. \u201cSo I do think the fundamental piece of that is going to be that defense piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has signaled interest in advancing a third reconciliation bill through the lower chamber, although Senate Republicans appear less certain that one will come together. Republicans passed tax cuts through reconciliation, alongside funding for border security and defense in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year, and are still working on a second reconciliation bill through the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) acknowledged on Wednesday that the upper chamber is now eyeing a third reconciliation bill that some conservatives at one point worried would not materialize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is talk now, because we have a third bullet available to us, a third legislative vehicle of what a Reconciliation 3.0 might look like,\u201d Thune <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/hughhewitt.com\/senate-majority-leader-john-thune-returns-to-the-program\">said<\/a> on the <em>Hugh Hewitt Show<\/em>. \u201cAnd you know, the House is going through that process. We are, too, having conversations about timing and what it might include, et cetera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some conservatives had initially wanted the second reconciliation bill to include elements of the SAVE America Act that could potentially survive the complex procedural rules in the Senate that dictate what can pass via the filibuster-skipping process, but the White House ultimately backed Senate leadership in keeping the second reconciliation bill focused more narrowly on funding for the Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service. The $1 billion in proposed Secret Service spending has drawn criticism from some Republicans, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/05\/12\/congress\/brian-fitzpatrick-ballroom-funding-00917848\">including<\/a> Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), because a portion of it would go toward building security features for the White House ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>Braid disputed the suggestion that Secret Service funding will be allocated to Trump\u2019s ballroom, a project that polls show is unpopular. Instead, he argued the funding is to secure the White House complex more broadly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a complex that for decades has needed security infrastructure upgrades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A third reconciliation bill could also include parts of the SAVE America Act, which would impose a proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registration and a voter ID requirement at the ballot box. The bill <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4455007\/house-passes-voter-id-bill-one-democrat-supporting\/\">passed the House<\/a> earlier this year but stalled in the Senate because the GOP\u2019s 53-seat majority can\u2019t overcome the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>Braid said the White House continues to push Republican senators to consider abandoning the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act and other GOP priorities, arguing Democrats would scrap the filibuster themselves were they in control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re not successful in doing that, I think we have a great chance of getting at least a down payment on the SAVE Act in Reconciliation 3.0, and that\u2019s certainly something that would be in the conversation for that future legislative effort,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The third reconciliation bill could also include some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-year-in-liberal-celebrity-freakouts\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: The Year In Liberal Celebrity Freakouts\">anti-fraud measures<\/a> that build off the early successes of Vice President JD Vance\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4567018\/jd-vance-pushes-states-root-out-medicaid-fraud-risk-losing-federal-funding\/\">task force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4538440\/by-the-numbers-how-many-seats-has-each-party-gained\/\"><strong>BY THE NUMBERS: HOW MANY SEATS HAS EACH PARTY GAINED IN REDISTRICTING?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the vice president\u2019s fraud task force is doing incredible work, and we\u2019re seeing a lot of ways in which the American social state can be reformed, that there are problems with American taxpayer dollars getting on target,\u201d Braid said. \u201cWe think that there\u2019s an opportunity for a broadly unifying fraud [effort] \u2026 ensuring taxpayer dollars are going to the appropriate recipients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve got a great opportunity to work on Recon 3, but of course, we\u2019re laser-focused on Recon 2,\u201d he said. \u201cI think a lot of people have already looked past this one. I can tell you from having done this with experience that there\u2019s no such thing as a simple reconciliation bill. So we\u2019ve got a lot of ball left to play on Recon 2.0.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braid says White House hopes GOP can pass a third reconciliation bill this year for national security and election-integrity priorities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2775,"featured_media":2602438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26127628982840.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[64921,4463,47835,15749,32127],"class_list":["post-2602437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bipartisan-talks","tag-budget","tag-legislative-agenda","tag-reconciliation","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26127628982840.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602441,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602437\/revisions\/2602441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}