The new Republican-majority Congress is planning to bundle an ambitious multi-issue agenda together into either one or two major budget reconciliation bills soon after President-elect Donald Trump takes office. There is an ongoing debate among Republicans in the House and Senate as to whether they should try to pass that agenda in one massive bill, or instead prioritize the most urgent issues in an earlier reconciliation and then follow up with a second bill shortly after.

Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich explains the situation and argues in favor of a single massive bill to address all budget issues at once.

The following is an excerpt from the above video:

Now, some people, particularly in the Senate, would like to have two bills, but that’s a huge danger. What they’d like to do is pass the easy stuff first, which is the border, controlling immigration, a handful of other small things. And then they promise they’ll come back and they’ll work on passing the big bill that has economic activities, tax cuts, more take home pay, more jobs. That’s very dangerous.

When President Reagan passed his big tax cuts in 1981, they wrote it, for reasons I do not understand, so that it didn’t go into effect till 1983. That meant ’82, an off year, was very tough for House Republicans. I was there. We lost 26 seats.

In 2017, the congressional leaders insisted on spending the first part of the year trying to repeal Obamacare. They ultimately failed, and only then did they take up the tax bill, and it did not pass until December of 2017. And in 2018, Republicans lost 40 seats, and Nancy Pelosi became Speaker.

So I think this is a big decision. You ought to pay a lot of attention to it. I think, if they come down for a one big bill solution, they’re going to be in pretty good shape. [If] they come down for two bills, it’s going to be very, very tough.