Economy and macroUpdated November 9

Freedom Caucus calls for a third reconciliation package

Government funding expires Dec. 11, farm and surface-transportation laws need extensions, and Congress still has the annual defense policy bill to handle. Now the conservative House Freedom Caucus is pressing for another major item. In a letter sent Monday, it urged Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to push through a third reconciliation package, along with other GOP priorities, before Democrats take control next year.

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