House GOP divided on key issues as Senate moves forward on Trump agenda plan

Source: The Hill

02/10/25 5:52 PM ET


House Republicans are divided over some of the thorniest issues at the center of their plan to pass President Trump’s legislative agenda, disagreements that are threatening to derail their timeline just days before the Senate is aiming to advance a competing plan.

Arriving at the Capitol on Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — who attended the Super Bowl on Sunday with Trump and Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is behind the Senate proposal — said the House could “maybe” advance a budget resolution by the end of this week, another delay in his timeline after he told reporters it was his hope that the blueprint would move through committee on Tuesday. A budget resolution would unlock the process Republicans are aiming to use to pass large swaths of Trump’s ambitious agenda.

“We’ll see,” the Speaker said. “We’re working through the final details of this, we’re very close, but there’s a couple of big issues left on the table.” Those matters, Johnson said, are raising the debt limit, increasing the deduction cap on state and local taxes and how to pay for the tax cut extensions, a question that has been at the center of the GOP talks.

“There’s some internal discussion and debate about exactly how we cover the cost of expanding the tax cuts and achieving the other priorities,” Johnson said. “And there are lots of different ideas on how to do that. And so my job is to find the consensus on the ideas that everyone will agree with and at what level.”

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