Republicans are quickly approaching a July 18 deadline to pass a recission package that would codify $9.4 billion of the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts into law. But at the moment, even with a rare 50-vote threshold for passage in the Senate, Republicans don’t seem to have the votes.
A handful of GOP senators have expressed major concerns about President Donald Trump’s rescission package — ranging from specific cuts to the legislation’s potential impact on the appropriations process. And if Senate Republicans have to amend the House-passed bill, that could jeopardize the entire measure at this point.
“I have some reservations about it. So we’ll just see,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a member of Senate Republican leadership, told reporters Tuesday.