Lisa Desjardins:
Yes, I want our viewers to be able to know the players here that are the most important.
And one of the issues here is, the House wants to do it one way. They want one giant bill with everything in it. The Senate says, no, let’s just get small things done, first of all, including border security. So, the House, on that side, you see Speaker Johnson and Ways and Means chair, the tax committee, Jason Smith.
Now, opposing them in how it could go about this, really, are Senate new Majority Leader John Thune and Lindsey Graham. He’s now the chairman of the Budget Committee. And both of them, actually, while the House was supposed to move this week, they couldn’t get it together. The Senate went ahead and moved its budget resolution, which is something that Trump has not really reined in on.
He’s meeting with senators this weekend. He met with the House members last night. But he’s not making a decision. And they’re trying to let them figure it out. They’re not.
So one problem for Republicans is that they can’t even figure out which direction they want to go to get to this ultimate goal yet.
