Third GOP Megabill Could Slip Until After Elections, Moore Says

House Republicans will likely forfeit their chance to pass another partisan fiscal package ahead of the midterm elections if they don’t wrap up their work before the August recess, a member of that chamber’s leadership team said Friday.

“If it doesn’t happen by the end of July, I don’t think it happens before the election,” House Republican Conference Vice Chair Blake Moore (R-Utah) said at an exclusive roundtable with Bloomberg Government reporters and editors. Republicans have been weighing a third party-line bill to pass another round of priorities before the midterms, but debates over what to include and a crowded agenda have stymied progress.