After the passage of the House of Representatives’ budget resolution on Tuesday, GOP lawmakers face a major challenge: getting Senate Republicans to sign off on the plan without making too many changes so as to make it impossible to pass when it comes back to the House.
This complicated game of legislative sudoku will require Republican congressional leadership to get every faction of the GOP to align: budget hawks, defense hawks, tax-cut advocates, blue state Republicans, and pro-entitlement program representatives.
