'One bill, two bills, I don't care': Trump promises to get large reconciliation bill passed either way

President Donald Trump promised House Republicans they would secure the U.S. border through a reconciliation package at a House GOP issues conference Monday at Trump National Doral, his golf course and resort near Miami. 

Trump also said Congress would figure out whether his large policy overhaul will fit into one bill or two bills — an issue splitting Republicans in the House and Senate. 

“In the coming weeks, I’m looking forward to working with Congress on a reconciliation bill that financially takes care of our plan to totally and permanently restore the sovereign border of the United States once and for all,” Trump said. “This should include full funding for a record increase in border security personnel and retention bonuses for ICE and border patrol.” 

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Trump also vowed to work with members of Congress on the “largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.” 

Many of the reforms included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Trump passed during his first term are set to expire in 2025, and Trump’s new economic plan calls for extending such cuts. 

Meanwhile, Republicans remain divided about how they will move to advance their legislative priorities. While Republicans in the Senate are pushing for two bills under the budget reconciliation process to speed up enacting new policies, Trump and Republicans in the House historically have called for advancing one massive bill instead. 

However, Trump said Monday it doesn’t matter whether the legislative branch pushes one or two bills.

“We don’t want to get hung up on the budget process … whether it’s one bill, two bills, I don’t care,” Trump said. “They’re going to work it out one way or the other. But the bottom line, the end result, is going to be the same.” 

Under the rules of the budget reconciliation process, passage only requires a 51-seat simple majority rather than the usual 60 seats. Even so, the use of the reconciliation process is sparse and must not include anything that could be considered “extraneous provisions.” 

Trump met with House and Senate GOP leaders on Tuesday, and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital after the meeting that he remained “agnostic about the process” of employing one bill versus two bills. 

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“I think for us, results are more important than process,” Scott told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. 

“And if that requires us to have border security, tax reform, deportation — whatever we can get into a package or multiple packages — we have to produce results for the people,” he said. 

Trump also unveiled plans to sign several executive orders on Monday centering on reforms to the military, including directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to kick off creating an “Iron Dome” missile defense shield for America, akin to the one Israel has protecting itself. Trump did not disclose any additional details on this system or how it would function.

Likewise, Trump said that he would sign an executive order to eradicate “transgender ideology” from the military. Trump is poised to sign an executive order that would “end the use of invented and identification-based pronouns” within the Department of Defense, according to a White House document reviewed by Fox News Digital.

“Next, to ensure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military,” Trump said. 

Other executive orders Trump mentioned include stopping service members from being “indoctrinated with radical left ideologies such as critical race theory,” and permitting the more than 8,000 service members who were kicked out of the military for refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to join again at their previous rank. 

Trump also urged Republicans to work alongside each other amid slim Republican majorities in the House and the Senate, noting that Democrats do a good job backing one another. 

“We have to stick together,” Trump said. “We have to work together. We have to fight together. We’re going to win together. … We have a chance to win like never before, as long as we stay united.” 

Fox News’ Elizabeth Elkind, Julia Johnson, and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.