Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson It faces increased pressure to connect the president Donald TrumpAgenda in Congress While trying to satisfy a file republican Conference with a major disagreement of priority.
Why do it matter
Trump has been pressing strongly through his conservative ideology through executive orders since he swore on his second term last. However, many of the president’s goals cannot be achieved legally without the bills successfully passed through Congress and reaching his office.
with Republicans Johnson maintains one majority in the House of Representatives, Johnson has a particularly difficult job to ensure that no members of his party vote against the legislation he put forward to vote.
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What do you know
Republicans are expected to try to pass goods on the Trump agenda through the reconciliation process – the objectives of politics to a huge federal budget bill that requires only a simple majority vote in the House of Representatives and Senate.
But Republicans are divided into the policies that must be included in the draft law that must be allocated to face a possible share by the Senate Democrats.
Conservative Republicans generally try to pass more Trump’s plans through reconciliation, especially the wide budget cuts, while the two centers in swinging areas may be less prepared to allow programs that could affect their voters and lose their votes in future elections.
Including Trump’s demands to raise the limit of federal debt can kill the draft law in the Senate, as some financial Republicans suggested that they will not support any bill that includes raising the debt limit regardless of the president’s demands.
CNN said on Tuesday that Johnson hoped to reduce $ 2.5 trillion of government spending that will affect medical aid, but leaves other programs such as social security and health care.
It is said that some Republicans from the states such as New York and California are concerned that the cuts will also target their areas and demand the improvement of tax exemptions for their components before voting on the budget package.
“Before voting for the Topline number, I would like to have a general understanding of the place to make some of these decisions and where the discounts will come,” York City, tell CNN.
“We understand what some of our colleagues might feel, but I feel bad about voting to obtain a refundable tax credit that may benefit their state,” she added, “In reference to the desire of some Republicans to reduce funding to New York. “Therefore, bid and enjoyment must be. It should be negotiations.”
What people say
Republican Congress member Tim Porschet of Tennessee, about how Johnson and his team can draft a successful bill for reconciliation, in comments on CNN: “They will have to come to us – that province financially, which kept our word and asked what we could live with … they did not do that.”
Congress member Republican Party Margori Taylor Green from Georgia, to CNN: “We do not have a plan to unite behind … Leadership must offer a front plan that we all can start with.”
Johnson, which indicates that Trump’s request to raise the debt limit will not be part of the budget bill, in the comments on Hill Tuesday: “I think there is some concern in the Senate that it may be difficult to do on the basis of my party, and therefore it may end with an exercise from the two parties … Therefore, where it fits and in any sequence it is part of the discussion here, and we will refer to this design here in the week Next or so.
Newsweek Concluded with the comment on the offices of Green, BurCitt, Malliotakis and Johnson via e -mail on Tuesday evening.
What happens after that
The Parliament Budget Committee is scheduled to meet next week, when it is said that it will vote on a “scheme” that is still unknown to the budget. Both of them will have to approve a non -binding copy of any bill for reconciliation before settling the details, and a binding version of the draft law will be voted.
