Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo., told Newsmax on Friday that House legislators have “flights booked” to return to Washington next week after the Senate finalizes and passes the reconciliation bill.

The Senate this week continued work on the text of the wide-ranging tax and domestic policy bill that passed the House last month, which suffered a setback after Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, a nonpartisan official appointed by the Senate majority leader, advised that the bill’s Medicaid provisions violates the Upper Chamber’s rules.

Alford said on “Wake Up America” that lawmakers are “waiting on the Senate parliamentarian, who figures out what’s legal and what’s not under the Byrd rule,” which he said is necessary “because we don’t have to have 60 votes in the Senate to get this done, that’s why we do things through this reconciliation package.”

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