Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is on a gross sales mission for the “huge, lovely invoice” filled with President Trump’s legislative priorities, defending its contents amid a wave of criticism from his get together in regards to the depth of spending cuts, significance of Medicaid adjustments and the rollback of green-energy tax credit.
Together with trying to mood Elon Musk, the Speaker has additionally gone on a cable information blitz, pushing again on issues Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are voicing in regards to the deficit impression of the invoice, tearing into the nonpartisan Congressional Funds Workplace’s math, and arguing that the advantages of the bundle outweigh its shortcomings.
And now, Speaker Johnson is seeking to ease issues of conservatives by promising to shortly stage a vote on a invoice that might claw again billions of {dollars} in federal funding — reflecting among the cuts DOGE has made — and signaling there could also be extra to return after the “one huge, lovely invoice” will get to the president’s desk.
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