The U.S. House of Representatives appears to be moving forward with a budget bill for President Donald Trump and his agenda. 

Fox News reports that the "mammoth" budget bill took a big step last week making it past the House Budget Committee.

The vote was indeed along party lines, with the final tally being 21 to 16.

A win, though, is a win, and the bill is expected to be before the entire House before the end of the month.

Background

Trump needs to get money from Congress to further his agenda. This is where the budget bill comes in.

The upper and lower chambers of Congress are taking different approaches to this situation. Trump wants to get the funding in, what he has referred to as, "One big beautiful bill." And, this is what the House is doing.

Fox reports:

The 45-page resolution directs various House committees to find a sum of at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, with $300 billion in new spending allocated toward the border, national defense, and the judiciary. It also directs $4 trillion toward raising the debt limit, and it includes $4.5 trillion to extend Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and other tax provisions pushed by the president for the next 10 years.

The Senate, however, is taking a different approach. It is breaking things up into two separate bills, one to deal with border and defense spending and another to deal with tax cuts.

The Senate has moved forward with the former, but not the latter.

Looking forward

As mentioned, both the House and the Senate have made progress in getting Trump money for his agenda, albeit using different approaches. Of course, for Trump to get what he needs then, at some point, both chambers are going to have to agree on something.

The big question, going forward, is whether the chambers are going to be able to come to such an agreement: will the Senate's plan be taken up, the House's, or something in between?

We, at the time of this writing, do not know the answer to this. But, there are some things that we do know.

It seems fairly obvious, for example, that Republicans will use the budget reconciliation process to get through whichever budget bill Republicans agree on. The reconciliation process essentially bypasses the Senate filibuster, requiring only a simple majority to get a budget bill through the upper chamber.

Republicans will have to resort to this because they only have a 53-47 majority in the upper chamber, meaning that they can't get a two-thirds majority, assuming all Democrats vote against the legislation.