Scoop: Inside the White House pitch for pre-election MAGA megabill

The Trump administration is directly pitching Senate Republicans to pass a major budget resolution before they leave for August recess, Axios has learned. The push would launch what Republicans are calling 'reconciliation three point zero' — a megabill that would direct seventy-three billion dollars to defense, twelve billion dollars to farm aid, and ten billion dollars to initiatives tied to voting requirements and citizenship verification. Senate Republican leaders say they don't think there's the time or votes to make it happen. The White House disagrees, and plans to structure the legislation with broad committee instructions to navigate around potential parliamentary objections. One strategic detail: they're deliberately leaving the debt ceiling out of this package, planning to tackle that fight in a later legislative push.

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