Newly reelected Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson is determined to advance President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda as he reveals how the President-elect wants Congress to handle the reconciliation debacle.
‘I think in the end President Trump will preferas he likes to say, one big, beautiful bill,” Johnson admitted to Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartimo.
The speaker added that he has spoken extensively with the president-elect in recent months in an effort to determine “the pros and cons of the two different strategies,” a reconciliation bill or a “skinny reconciliation bill.”
“There’s a lot of merit in that (one reconciliation bill) because we can put it all together, one big vote up or down, that could literally save the country because there are so many elements to it,” Johnson said.
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“It gives us a little more time to negotiate that and get it right,” he continued.
Johnson expressed that one reconciliation law will “have a lot of pieces” and address many of the concerns Americans expressed during the election, such as securing the border and the economy.
To “revive the American economySpeaker Johnson stressed the importance of “preventing the largest tax increase in US history” and warned that this could happen automatically by the end of next year if Congress doesn’t get its “ducks in a row.”
As important as they are, tax cuts are not the only priority for the Republican Party in the House of Representatives as they look to help Trump get the country’s economy back on track.
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Johnson explained that’s what Republicans want ‘incentivize’ American companies to produce in the US, dismantle the ‘regulatory burden’ and red tape that ‘suffocate’ the free market, eradicate the ‘deep state’ and restoration of American energy dominance.
“So a lot of moving pieces, a lot of things to negotiate, a lot of opinions on all that. So we will be working long, long hours with whiteboards and making sure every Republican participates,” he said.
Although the speaker will run the first 100 days with the “smallest margin in American history,” he is confident Republicans will make it happen for the American people.
When asked about the timeline for one reconciliation bill, Johnson said it could be on President Trump’s desk as early as May or as early as April 3, if everything goes in the “right order.”
“We have made many campaign promises. President Trump has done that too and reconciliation is the way to make that happen,” he explained.
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