Account reconciliation made simple: what it is, how it works, and the types you need to know to close your books confidently.

But unlike the Byrd rule, provisions found to be “fatal” after a privilege scrub can be the death knell for partisan reconciliation bills. If fatal provisions aren’t removed before the bill comes to ...

By using reconciliation, which was originally intended to rein in deficits, Republicans can pass the bill with a simple majority vote. But analysts expect it to lead to larger deficits.

The Senate narrowly passed the budget reconciliation bill on Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law on July 4, 2025, introducing significant changes to immigration ...

On the Senate floor today, Senator Jeff Merkley calls out his GOP colleagues for misusing legislative policies in the Congressional Budget Act to undermine the reconciliation process.

There is a strong need to resolve issues related to the reconciliation process, President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake said. Addressing civil society organizations on the Truth and Reconciliation ...

The U.S. Senate Parliamentarian ruled Thursday that several key provisions from Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Tim Scott on the Trump budget bill violate reconciliation process rules.

The sale of public lands in the Republican-led megabill has ignited controversy on both sides of the aisle, but new changes to the bill would seem to narrow how those lands could be used.

For automation to truly work, the data going in has to be clean, complete and standardised. That means putting proper data ...

News about Budget Reconciliation, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.