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Top Republicans split over strategy to move Trump's 2025 agenda

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Top Republicans are divided over the best strategy to advance core components of President-elect Donald Trump's agenda when the party gains a slim majority in Congress next year .

The new Congress will give Trump and Republicans the opportunity to pass major legislation without the need for any Democratic support under a process called "reconciliation" The House ’s top tax writer, Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith , R-Mo., is warning fellow Republicans against breaking the agenda up into two bills.

Republicans are divided over the best approach to passing reconciliation legislation.

If one or both packages are projected to add substantially to the debt, it could create a vote-count problem for House GOP leaders.

If the GOP breaks up the bills and uses its most valuable pay-fors’ on the first package of border and energy items, it may leave fewer options to limit the deficit impact of the second bill.

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