Trump Says He'll Accept Multiple Reconciliation Bills to Enact His Agenda

The debate over the number of reconciliation bills, the vehicles for Trump’s agenda, in the 119th Congress has been ongoing.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks to the media as (L–R) Vice President-elect JD Vance and Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) look on at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 8, 2025. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said that he’s indifferent to the number of reconciliation bills required to pass his agenda, which has emerged as a key question for Republicans in Congress ahead of his inauguration.

Trump visited the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 8 to meet with Senate Republican leaders and, along with his wife, Melania Trump, pay his respects to the late President Jimmy Carter, who is lying in state in the Capitol’s rotunda and whose state funeral service will be attended by Trump along with all living former U.S. presidents on Jan. 9.