Johnson tells Republicans Trump wants one big policy bill as party charts course on agenda [View all]
Source: CNN
House Speaker Mike Johnson informed Republicans at a closed-door meeting Saturday that Donald Trump favored moving his agenda as one sweeping package, according to sources in attendance — a key announcement fraught with risk but one that sets the stage for advancing the president-elect’s ambitious plans.
The effort to include border, energy and tax policies in a single bill is a shift from where Senate Republican leader John Thune has been, but it also represents an evolution in how Trump’s team has begun to see the legislative landscape over the last several weeks. A source familiar with this change told CNN it had become clear with the spending bill debacle and a narrow speaker’s race that there will be very little room to maneuver two separate bills — one on the border and energy and one regarding tax policies.
Thune and other GOP senators had argued that jump-starting Trump’s term with a border and energy policy bill — packed with widely popular GOP ideas — and punting on a tax bill until later in the year would be a better move politically than risking a dragged-out tax battle.
But several key Republicans in the House, including Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, had spent months pushing for a single bill, arguing that two measures would become too unruly in the chamber, where the GOP has an extremely narrow majority.
“It shows the best and quickest approach to deliver for President Trump is one beautiful, big package,” Smith told CNN last month.
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The Repugs are mirroring Der Fuehrer's flowery language. I mean, when was the last time you heard legislation referred to as "beautiful"?
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