Scoop: Schumer's reconciliation training camp

• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his caucus will huddle Wednesday with budget reconciliation experts, sources tell us.
• Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met earlier this year to discuss how the party can turn the GOP's tax-cut plans into political poison.
• House Republicans last month passed a budget resolution — the first step toward a final reconciliation bill — that allows for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, offset by $2 trillion in spending cuts.

The big picture: Democratic leaders see an opening to go on offense against Trump and Republicans over their plans to cut taxes while slashing federal programs.

• It's similar to the playbook they ran ahead of the 2018 midterms when Democrats made Trump's tax cuts so unpopular that Republicans barely mentioned them in their campaign messaging.
• While Democrats lost Senate seats that year — in a tough landscape — they picked up more than three dozen House seats.

• The reconciliation showdown is also a chance for Democratic leaders to assuage concerns from both lawmakers and their grassroots that they have not been forceful enough in pushing back against Trump and DDOGE's slash-and-burn tactics against the federal government.

Zoom out: The Democratic huddle comes as Republicans are trying to work out their own differences over the budget reconciliation process.

• Senate and House Republicans passed wildly diverging different budget resolutions and need to hammer out those differences before the party can move forward.