It only took a five-week shutdown of a major Cabinet agency, but the GOP’s reconciliation dreams have new life Tuesday morning.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in an interview Monday night that a brewing Homeland Security spending deal has lent new momentum to the push for another party-line bill. That bill would fund immigration enforcement — and potentially much more.
“If we end up going down that route, we’ll try and make the most of the opportunity,” he told POLITICO.
That’s a big tell from Thune, who up to now has been noncommittal on the idea of a second reconciliation bill this Congress. The idea also appears to have buy-in from…
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