The dominant view within the Senate GOP is that committees can operate as though a border bill will move first and change course if House negotiations are promising.

Senate Republicans fear that President-elect Trump’s tax agenda could be derailed in the House by several potential landmines, including calls by some GOP lawmakers to raise corporate taxes and to

President-elect Donald Trump appears ready to let Senate and House Republicans settle their differences over budget reconciliation strategy without putting his thumb on the scales for either the all-in-one measure brewing in the House or the Senate’s bifurcated approach.