Mike Johnson: “Reconciliation allows 51 votes only to pass in the Senate if…”

“We have done two reconciliation bills already, and your viewers know because they are savvy, this is the only exception to having to get 60 votes in the Senate on on a major piece of legislation. So Reconciliation allows 51 votes only to pass in the Senate if you're reconciling a budget. That's what we squeezed into the big beautiful bill, the working pilgrimage tax cut. We just got reconciliation 2.0 done to get the Department of Homeland Security fully funded.” (00:50–00:56)

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