Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on February 18, 2025 announced the Senate will vote on the fiscal year 2025 budget resolution passed by the Senate Budget Committee six days earlier, on February 12, 2025.

“It’s time to act on the decisive mandate the American people gave to President Trump in November. Securing the border, rebuilding our defense, and unleashing American energy…. Let’s get it done,” Majority Leader Thune said on X.

The Senate committee’s resolution calls for up to $515 billion in mass deportation, border control, and defense spending and at least that much in cuts from federal mandatory programs (except Social Security and Medicare).

The House, which passed its much more expansive budget resolution out of its budget committee the same week as the Senate committee, is on recess the week of February 17.

The House committee’s resolution calls for at least $4.5 trillion in expenses for tax cuts, border issues, and defense and at least $1.5 trillion in savings. When the House returns on February 24, it could struggle to pass its resolution, which calls for potentially several hundred billion in cuts to Medicaid and threats to tax exempt bonds, among other funding at risk. Republicans hold a majority in the House of two seats, meaning it can only lose one member of its party in a vote.

Keep up on the latest developments via our Budget Reconciliation 2025 serial post.