Former President Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee, welcomed Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago resort home in West Palm Beach, Florida, for their first meeting since Trump left the White House in 2020. (Credit: X/@margommartin)

If former President Donald Trump returns to the White House and the GOP regains control of the Senate and retains control of the House, the Republican congressional leadership will have the opportunity to use the "reconciliation process" to enact urgently needed legislation.

"There’s not a moment to lose!" was a saying of the Royal Navy in the "age of sail," one familiar to anyone who has read Patrick O’Brian’s splendid 20 volume Aubrey-Maturin series set at sea in the Napoleonic Wars (and in the single screen adaptation of the novels in "Master and Commander," where Russell Crowe as Captain Jack Aubrey utters the familiar admonition to take every advantage of every day, hour and minute.)

The need in D.C. is indeed for speed. In the post-war era, Republicans have always meandered their way through their rare opportunities to legislate when all three lawmaking bodies are headed by Republicans. Always they have employed the standard Beltway calendar and four-day work weeks. They are never ready to move quickly, and rarely by April if that. Their majorities and the president who brought them along with his campaign have never landed in Washington, D.C., with anything like a big agenda and the urgency that is required to move big legislative packages.

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Conservatives are by nature a careful lot, often cautious in the extreme. Given where we are in 2024, that deeply embedded caution has to go by the boards and everyone from Trump down to the "biggest reach" candidate in a Senate campaign — probably the campaign of Nella Domenici against incumbent Democrat Senator Martin Heinrich in New Mexico — has to pledge to go far, go fast and go together.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump would need help from congressional Republicans to hit the ground running the day he takes office. (Getty Images)

The country needs this dynamic urgency to repair the massive damage done to the economy during the Biden-Harris years and to assure the superpower status of the U.S. Indeed, the urgent need to stop our "national bleeding" in every phase of our federal government has to dominate the GOP’s collective fall campaign. Much needs to be done, and every GOP candidate should be insistent on its immediate doing when sworn in.

"Reconciliation" is celebrating its 50th anniversary, having been established by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. This process allows for expedited consideration of certain tax, spending and debt limit legislation. In the Senate, reconciliation bills aren’t subject to........

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