Top Republican lawmakers emerged from a meeting at the Treasury Department on Tuesday saying the House and Senate are moving closer together on key aspects of how to unlock President Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda, including whether to include a debt ceiling increase and how quickly they can move.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett and top congressional tax writers in an attempt to shrink the gap between the two chambers’ competing bills.

“A lot of progress,” Johnson told reporters when he arrived back at the Capitol. “The House and Senate are very closely aligned.”

Thune sounded a similar note, reporting back on the other side of the Capitol that the meeting was a “a very constructive, productive conversation.”

“[We’re] kind of homing in on these final issues we have to decide,” he added.

That cooperation will be key to getting Trump’s agenda passed. Republicans are aiming to use a process called budget reconciliation, which will let them move forward with only GOP votes but requires near unanimity among Republicans. Marrying the two chambers’ budget resolutions is a crucial next step.

As of Tuesday, Republicans appear to be approaching the same page when it comes to whether to use the reconciliation package to raise the debt limit, which had been one of the thornier issues dividing the two chambers.

Both Johnson and Thune said the party is moving closer to agreeing that the debt limit should be in a single “big, beautiful bill,” as Trump has dubbed it, after the House included it in its blueprint but the Senate left on the cutting room floor.

“I think there’s consensus forming there,” the Senate GOP leader told reporters after returning to the Capitol.

The South Dakota Republican........

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