Trump will meet with key senators on Wednesday. (Getty Images)
Trump and Senate Republicans' discussion is just the latest of several meetings on both the House and Senate sides, hammering out details on how to maneuver a House-passed budget reconciliation bill through the upper chamber. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was spotted leaving at least one of the congressional meetings on Wednesday and has been a fixture on Capitol Hill amid the reconciliation debate.
Initially, there was stark disagreement between GOP leaders in the House and Senate over how to organize a reconciliation bill, which is a key tool for the Trump administration and Republican majorities, because it lowers the vote threshold in the Senate, bypassing the legislative filibuster.
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The House and Senate differed on their preferred approach. (Getty Images)
Now, the Senate is charged with taking up the House's bill, including border and tax cuts, in order to complete the budget reconciliation process for Trump.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told Fox News he would be at the morning meeting at 11 a.m. He said he planned to bring up the debt limit, which will need to be extended soon. In particular, he wants to discuss raising the debt limit in the budget reconciliation resolution.
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Kennedy wants to raise the debt limit in the budget process. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
According to the Republican, Trump hasn't been highly communicative to Republicans about his position on the debt limit's inclusion in this particular bill.
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But Kennedy believes they should raise the debt limit via reconciliation to ensure Republicans don't need to negotiate with Democrats to avert default down the line.
Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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