House GOP’s Planned Megabill Risks Post-Election Wait: BGOV Tax

Third Reconciliation Bill’s Timeline Slips

House Republicans have until the August recess to pass a partisan fiscal package or else they will likely miss their chance ahead of the midterm elections, Zach Cohen reports.

“If it doesn’t happen by the end of July, I don’t think it happens before the election,” House Republican Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore (R-Utah) said at an exclusive roundtable Friday with Bloomberg Government reporters and editors.

Republicans have been weighing passing a third party-line bill to push their priorities before the November midterms, but there is still debate over what that could look like. ...