Freedom Caucus May Push for More Than Tax Overhaul in Next Budget
“Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are considering a push for broader reconciliation authority in the upcoming fiscal 2018 budget resolution that would allow Republicans to pursue policies beyond a tax code overhaul. ‘We believe that writing the instructions more broadly will give us greater flexibility not only to get tax reform but also to address other areas simultaneously,’ Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said in an interview here Friday. One idea floated is including language in the reconciliation instructions that would allow committees of jurisdiction to look at policies for overhauling the welfare system, which, like a tax code rewrite, is one of the six planks of House Republicans’ ‘A Better Way’ agenda.”