House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, joins 'Fox News Sunday' to discuss an update on partisan budget plans, tax cuts and the Super Bowl being hosted in his state.
may face yet another delay in drafting President Trump’s “one big beautiful” bill on everything from the border to tax reform.
He was apparently alluding to the fact that if the bill is to stay intact as opposed to becoming piecemeal legislation, it must go through the House first since major tax changes are required under the Constitution to originate in the lower chamber prior to getting taken up in the Senate.“It has to be the one-big-bill strategy,” Johnson said. “And the reason for that is because that gives us the highest probability of success of delivering on all these campaign promises. We will get it done.
House GOP leaders such as Johnson fear that they will lose leverage with hardliners if the package gets split in two. Members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus have similarly favored a two-bill approach, which they believe would give them more leverage in negotiations over the tax components.Sen. Lindsey Graham rolled out a budget resolution last week in a bid to put pressure on House Republicans to get their act together.“Lindsey is a good friend,” Johnson said. “I appreciate the Senate zeal. We have it in the House as well.
The tough question is how to pay for all that — and it’s proving to be divisive among House Republicans, where there is almost no room for error.Before then, he will also have to deal with a government-shutdown fight in mid-March, with Democrats champing at the bit to extract concessions for a bailout while hardliner Republicans have a track record of rejecting leadership’s plans.
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