Speaker Johnson supports President Trump’s Gaza proposal
Speaker Mike Johnson expressed support for President Donald Trump’s idea of ​​taking over Gaza.
WASHINGTON – Congress Republicans fought hard for full control over Capital Hill. Now that he has, he is making a riot to prove President Donald Trump that he can use it to provide his election campaign promises.
GOP Senators will attend a private dinner Friday nightHouse Republicans, the next day after a marathon meeting in the White House, tried to have a plan to move Trump’s agenda to Capital Hill. On Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson will attend the Super Bowl with the President.
These meetings came when Congress Republicans took the best way to fulfill the promises of Trump’s campaign on immigration, domestic energy production, defense and taxes, which shows that both houses are strict. How much challenge would be to supply with a margin?
The House Republican is struggling to deal with a framework bill in which lawmakers will tell how much they can spend and how much they have to cut. This will only be the first step: both the House and the Senate have to approve the same bill to unlock the budget -related reconciliation process, which will allow them to pass a bill with only 51 votes in the Senate later. , Which will avoid the danger of democratic fibster.
The thinner of the House Republicans makes it easier for any member to remove development from the track. Despite the three -day retreat in Miami last week and his promise to consider his framework bill this week, he is still unable to agree on the budget details.
As the precious time collision under GOP Traffecta, Senate budget chair San Lindsay Graham, RSC said on Wednesday that he would move forward with the Senate plan, which in a bill with immigration, energy and defense in a bill. Will move forward to deal with. -A Plan House Republicans have argued that the tax bill will eventually kill, as politically complex tax bills have not been found through their chamber without border and energy policies that compromise members and vote for the package. Will encourage.
“There are unique dynamics in the House and we have had to move on what the House agreement can happen,” said Steve Skilis, R-La, the majority of the House. “President Trump really liked the idea of ​​taking care of all his priorities in a relatively short term.”
What to know here is where Trump’s agenda stands at Capital Hill.
Can Congress pass Trump’s agenda?
After the 2024 elections, Republicans have full control of Washington. Regardless of which party has power, which usually lasts for two years.
In the Senate, the Republican controls the Chamber-a comfortable margin for simple-majority votes to approve the cabinet nominees, but mostly required to get around Flabster for legislation 60 votes dore Not enough to clean up.
In the House, the majority of Republicans are one of the smallest markers in modern history. The fact is even more tough: House Republicans already have two empty vacancies, which were developed by the former Reprint Matt Gates, R.Fla, who resigned at the end of last year, and the former Representative Mike Walts, R. Fla, who joined it. The Trump administration as a national security adviser. Rap. Elise Stephenk, RNY, will also resign soon when he is confirmed as an ambassador to the United Nations. This will remain a small majority of 217-215 for months-so the House Republican cannot lose a single vote and still pass the bill.
The leaders of the House have argued that the only way to approve Trump’s priorities is to bring everything into a “big, beautiful bill”, as Trump has dubbed, so that every Republican can be added to the board.
The bill will use a process called “reconciliation”, which allows lawmakers to ignore the doorstep of 60 votes in the Senate, which will otherwise require a compromise with Democrats. Former President Joe Biden also used his strategy when approving the inflation reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan. Reconciliation bills can only include expenditure measures.
What does the White House want
At the White House meeting of the House Republicans on Thursday, when Trump’s press secretary Crown Levit told reporters that the president offered his tax priorities for the policy bill.
He said that there was no tax on the indicators, as the president repeatedly demanded the campaign, there is no tax on social security benefits, and there is no tax on overtime salary. This includes extension of tax changes implemented During his first periodTo adjust Some deduction of tax Most of this affects residents in high -tax states like New York and California, which eliminates “all special tax breaks for the billionaire sports team owners” and “shut down”.Picked up the interest detection“
“It will be the biggest tax deduction in history for the middle -class Americans working.” The president is determined to work with the Congress to do the job. “
Republican border wants to improve security technology, staff and detention facilities, and eliminate parts of the Biden climate law and promote domestic energy production, including oil and gas.
However, Trump has made it clear that he does not care how the Congress passes its agenda, as long as it happens. With the vicinity of the home and the Senate, the wogle room remains to dispute between the two sides of the capital.
Home has done so far
House Republicans spent three days in Trump Resort in Miami at the end of last month to try to come up with top line numbers that could help them approve the budget map.
The main approach is the potential cost of this package: Trump’s tax tips, expansion of tax deductions and newcomers can cost trillions of dollars. Several members of the House of Representatives and other conservatives want to cut deep costs for it, which can create political challenges for moderates at the conference as deductions affect their circles.
“If you are going to cut taxes, you have to cut costs,” rap. Chip Rai, R Texas, a member of a Freedom Cox, who has been part of the leadership conversation in the past few days. “I will not sit there and go through the dollar for the dollar, but you all stirred it in the pot, need to reduce the deficit.”
Johnson said Friday that “maybe” will be added to the package to increase the roof of the loan. The federal government is expected to target the loan roof this year, which requires legislation to pay pre -approved expenditure and avoid pre -default.
Freedom Cox Chair Representative, Andy Harris, RMD, told USA Today last week that the reconciliation bill must add a loan roof hike: “We think if you have Democrats. When you go to the roof of the debt, the Democrats want the work in the next 10 years. “
Moves like Senate House Stalls
Senate leaders have said they will give home some time to detect their plan, but if a bill strategy fails, they will move forward with their two bills. But on Wednesday, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen Lindsay Graham, RS, C, said that the time came and he would move forward on the Budget Blue Print next week without the House.
“It’s time to move the Senate,” Graham said. “I appreciate what the House is trying to do, but I think it is very important that we (Border Char) need Tom Holman to complete the project that President Trump promised What was
Friday, It issued a plan It will be Billion 150 billion for national defense and 5 175 billion for border security, including new technology, bedspace and personnel. The new cost will be met with equal amounts of deductions. The Senate Budget Committee plans to start work on Graham’s proposal next Wednesday.
If Graham and his committee complete the process of approving the first budget map of the House, the House will either have to accept the Senate version and move forward or insist on its version.
Chair of the House Customs Committee, Rap. Tom Cole, R Okla. On Wednesday, he suggested that he was not yet disturbed by the differences between the two chambers. He said that approving the budget blueprint is just the first step.
“If you do not get that compromise package, you will face the highest tax increase in US history,” Cole said, because Trump’s 2017 tax deduction ends this year. Is If this happens, he said, GOP members will be punished by their constituencies in the ballot box in 2026.
He added, “God did not do what God made to Republican.”
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