House Republicans unveil $95 billion reconciliation package framework

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a budget framework for a roughly $95 billion reconciliation package that would provide funding for defense, farm aid and state efforts to implement voter ID requirements in elections.

The resolution marks the opening salvo in Republicans’ effort to use the budget reconciliation process one final time to advance key GOP priorities while they still control both chambers of Congress and the White House. Because reconciliation bills can pass the Senate with a simple majority, the process would allow Republicans to sidestep a Democratic filibuster.

The budget resolution serves as a blueprint, setting parameters for a more detailed reconciliation bill.

The House Budget Committee is scheduled to mark up the budget resolution Thursday, kicking off what GOP leaders hope will be their final reconciliation push amid the high-stakes 2026 midterm elections.

“Republicans were sent to Washington on a mission to reverse the failed policies of the socialist Democrats and restore the greatness of America,” House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said in a statement.

“On Thursday, House Republicans will unlock a third budget reconciliation to stop Democrat obstruction, support our troops, and safeguard the integrity of our elections.  We will use every tool and resource at our disposal to govern our great nation and deliver on behalf of the freedom-loving people who gave us unified Republican leadership,” he added.

Here’s a quick look at what’s in the bill.

Defense and intel

The resolution’s spending instructions include $60 billion for the House Armed Services Committee and $13 billion for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The defense funding is expected to bolster military readiness, strengthen the defense industrial base and replenish U.S. weapons stockpiles as the military conflict with Iran drags on.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republicans received a briefing from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Tuesday evening on the package’s defense provisions.

But the broader reconciliation bill, which does not include offsets for spending, is already drawing skepticism from fiscal hawks who have long insisted that any new spending be paired with cuts elsewhere.

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), a fiscal conservative, said in a post on X that his prediction on the budget resolution is that it will be “DOA” — dead on arrival — signaling the resistance Johnson could face from his right flank.

In another post, Davidson wrote that, “There is no will to spend less or honestly pay for massive spending. Deficits, Debt, and Debasement all the way to the crash site. Nothing stops this train. Make a plan.”

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), the House Freedom Caucus’ policy chair and a member of the House Budget Committee, had previously acknowledged the tension between defense spending and conservatives’ push for fiscal restraint.

“People like me want to pay for everything, so you know getting a little hung up on some of those issues. But you know, if it’s a reasonably targeted amount on defense, and we’re dealing with these — you know, trying to force the Senate’s hand on SAVE America, then we’ll see if we can get it done,” he told reporters Tuesday, before the resolution was released.

Farm aid

The resolution’s instructions also include $12 billion for the House Committee on Agriculture to help with farm aid.

“We’re going to provide certainty for our food supply. Food security is national security. Every year, especially the last four or five years, because of high input cost, high inflation, droughts, and things that are outside of the producer’s control, they’ve needed some economic assistance,” Arrington told reporters on Wednesday.

“We need some, you know, emergency funding for our food supply, food supply resilience, certainty for our producers, so that we don’t disrupt, you know, something that is critical to our national security,” Arrington added.

The House had previously passed a farm bill in April reauthorizing agricultural and food programs for the next five years. The legislation would  “expand investments in rural communities, bring science-backed management back to our national forests, and restore regulatory certainty in the interstate marketplace,” among other things, according to the House Agriculture Committee.

However, the Senate has yet to mark up its own version of the bill. Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.), chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, told Politico he’s still “working on” the timeline for marking up the bill.

Emily Brooks contributed to this report. Updated at 11:18 a.m.

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