reconciliation

If he could manage the surprising feat and advance legislation popular enough to withstand a filibuster, he could potentially lock in the reconciliation law’s border security gains.

For those of us immersed in America’s political culture of 2025, it is, frankly, hard to take any scenario in which politics stops getting nastier and starts turning toward cross-partisan reconciliation too seriously.

On Saturday, members from the LGBTQ+ community entered St Peter's Basilica though its Holy Door - a procession that symbolises reconciliation.

But recently, there have been signs that tensions between father and son are easing, and that a reconciliation could be within reach.

The genesis came at the beginning of the year, when congressional Republicans were torn between jamming their legislative agenda into one reconciliation bill or splitting it across two.