Johnson tells Republicans Trump wants one big policy bill as party charts course on agenda
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-elects 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 Trumps 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 speakers 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 Trumps 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.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/politics/mike-johnson-donald-trump-gop-agenda/index.html
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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pfitz59
(11,241 posts)Or Elon and his pals will bury you. Easy to read between the lines.
lefthandedskyhook
(1,127 posts)What a relief to learn they are so inept at whipping votes that this will never pass without massive compromises. Biden got tons of stuff passed because of genuine experience and skill
snowybirdie
(5,835 posts)to watch all the Repubs tripping all over themselves. Gotta get more popcorn
LuvLoogie
(7,720 posts)All they have to do is break shit, and uphold authoritarian power. They have the courts, Nazi police, and christo-fascists on their side.
All they want to do is build chaos and nihilism. Their moneyed leaders have bunkers. Their vassals have guns and impunity. And hate.
LuvLoogie
(7,720 posts)They will kill the safety net, oversight, regulations, healthcare, civil rights, all at once.
And their Nazi militias and Nazi police will be tasked to quell any unrest.
C_U_L8R
(46,089 posts)Red Mountain
(1,984 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,730 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(52,295 posts)Do you mean give up now?
Do you mean give up in two weeks?
Do you mean start to battle it in two weeks?
Do you mean they will pass it in two weeks of sessions?
Do you mean to be dismissive, which is commonly the take when a sentence is ended with comma "right.". Dismissive of what?
Do you mean to dismiss the significance of this?
I don't see a reference to two weeks in the OP. The House can start work now, not in two weeks which would be Jan. 18, before tRump is inaugurated.
C_U_L8R
(46,089 posts)is claimed to be coming in 'two weeks'.
And of course, they never materialize.
Sorry for being cryptic, I thought it was common punchline.
Bernardo de La Paz
(52,295 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,060 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(630 posts)Great way to start.
multigraincracker
(34,714 posts)War with Greenland?
bluestarone
(18,663 posts)Let these dumb ASSHOLES dig their grave!
ZonkerHarris
(25,577 posts)Midnight Writer
(23,386 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
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Crowman2009
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reACTIONary
(6,262 posts)... a poor plan. With such narrow margins in the house and senate, they are going to have to break this up to get bits and pieces passed.
At least that's what I think. Maybe it works otherwise?
JohnnyRingo
(19,573 posts)The republican party is more fractured and less obedient than he thinks. Everyone one will dislike something in it.
Sounds like something Stephen Miller would come up with.
DallasNE
(7,652 posts)Give all of the Republican all of the pork they want. Gotcha.
Attilatheblond
(5,035 posts)Otherwise known as the Baffle Them With Bullshit method
mysuzuki2
(3,563 posts)Give me everything I want RIGHT NOW!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(118,193 posts)Mike 03
(18,007 posts)--Full Metal Jacket
Hugin
(35,343 posts)Well see.
sheshe2
(89,260 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
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Montauk6
(8,814 posts)not fooled
(6,150 posts)with border legislation and hide the actual goal--tax cuts for the wealthy--in the same big, beautiful package! Plus get the tax cut done early on so their dumbass voters forget about it before the next election!
qazplm135
(7,619 posts)And not much time to pass stuff before the next election cycle freezes everything in place
Figarosmom
(4,138 posts)He's going to get those upper class tax cuts passed. There are plenty in his party that refuse to increase the deficit
JohnnyRingo
(19,573 posts)He may have a hard time winning the different factions of the republican party, and they need all the votes plus some help from democrats.
The Freedom Caucus will probably complain it doesn't go far enough and the few moderates will harp that it's too much at once.
no_hypocrisy
(49,919 posts)IOW, a Bill with a plethora of laws would be nearly impossible to debate each item. Say there were 20 proposals within one omnibus Bill, and there was debate on each proposal, it would take half a year to pass the Bill, given the liberal (excuse the pun) recess time The House takes.
Emile
(32,130 posts)they don't pass their big bill, it's all on the majority party.
Mike 03
(18,007 posts)intend to go big and go fast. So many bills and executive orders are going to eject from the Oval Office so quickly it will be hard to keep track of everything. But that is one of the most important things we can do in the first weeks--sort out what is being rolled back, which regulations are being remanded, which things he does exert upwards pressure on prices, and deduce from all of this what all the implications will be for citizens and also our foreign allies who we trade with. It won't be easy but we'll have a lot of hands on deck and can manage.
Hope22
(3,419 posts)Packets for each state ready for delivery as well. Same drill as prior years. The difference is so many sates are foundered by gerrymandering and these sick, immoral changes will be accepted across the country.
no_hypocrisy
(49,919 posts)A giant omnibus bill?
Any single bill can have 100 to thousands of pages. And a few honest representatives have admitted they (or their staffs) dont read the bills completely before voting on them.
And now prospectively, they will be presented with an omnibus bill with hundreds of thousands of pages.
Impossible! And well be shackled with ill-advised, unexamined laws that will have a major impact on us all.
And all because of two congressional districts that voted red.
Frank D. Lincoln
(894 posts)it's broken up into many smaller bills.
Dem4life1970
(678 posts)I will love to hear (R-TX) Chip Roy's mental gymnastics when he and others on his side of the aisle vote for this.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,932 posts)There are only so many times that Presidents Trusk can threaten congress with being primaried before they get tired of it and start to ignore him. So, get as much as he can as fast as he can.
I'm sure the presidents already threatened a few representatives with primaries in order to get Johnson reinstated as Speaker.