Reconciliation

Budget reconciliation is an expedited process for considering bills that would implement policies embodied in a Congressional budget resolution. Since 1980, the first year the process took place, various laws have been enacted through budget reconciliation—for example, the 2017 tax act (Public Law 115-97), the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (P.L. 117-2), and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (P.L. 117-169).