House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., insisted Tuesday that a final reconciliation bill on the budget will be a “collaborative process between the House and Senate,” responding after the Senate over the weekend passed its version of the reconciliation bill.

“The budget resolution is not the law,” Johnson said during a press conference. “All this does is it allows us to continue the process, begin drafting the actual legislation [that] really counts, and that’s the one big, beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump is seeking.

In addition, the Senate’s amendment “makes no changes to the reconciliation instructions that we put into the budget resolution, so our objectives remain intact,” said Johnson.

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