House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday said Republicans were “very, very close” to the bill’s framework that would advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda, with GOP Senators presenting their own plans He said he is defending the House’s role in leading the process.
“We want to move the (Senator) agenda, and we do. President Trump was obliged to provide that “America First” agenda. Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Johnson added that it would “take a little while” to move Trump’s agenda forward with one bill, as House Republicans prefer.
“Lindsay is a good friend,” Johnson said of Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham.
“We’re very close,” Johnson said, referring to the multi-hour meeting he and other Republicans had with Trump at the White House and the GOP leadership meeting on Thursday evening.
House GOP leaders hoped to begin work through the first steps of planning at this week’s Budget Committee markup, Johnson said:
Johnson, who is in Trump’s suite at the Super Bowl on Sunday night in New Orleans, said his message to the president was, “We’re going to get the job done, but it has to be one big bill strategy.” I stated.
