Speaker Mike Johnson Delivers
The House Budget Resolution passed last night. For most of the day, it appeared in doubt. In fact, multiple Republicans publicly announced they would vote no.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s team and President Trump worked through the day and evening to get everyone on board. They got all but Thomas Massie to vote for the resolution.
Every Democrat opposed the package, which would stop taxation on tips, among other things. So, again, the Democrats voted against the working class.
This is a big win for Mike Johnson, who deserves much credit for persevering in making what he promised Donald Trump happen. He gets the deliverable and can now start the debate with the Senate.
That is the hard part.
As legislators often say, the Democrats are the opposition, but the other house of the legislature is the enemy. In this case, the Senate is the enemy.
Senators want to make Donald Trump’s tax cuts permanent. The framework of the budget resolution outlined by the House Republicans will not do that. Senate Republicans say Donald Trump has come their way on the issue and wants to make the cuts permanent.
The structure of legislation to do that probably does entail two pieces of legislation instead of one.
Right now, the Senate wants to tackle immigration and national security issues and implement tax cuts later this year. The House plan is to roll everything into one package. Again, however, this would preclude the tax cuts from being permanent and could allow Democrats, with future legislative control, to let the cuts expire without ever having to take a difficult vote to raise taxes.
That fight, however, is for another today.
Today, Mike Johnson gets a huge win. He shows he can lead a House Republican Conference that can only afford one defection until special elections are resolved later this year.
Are Republicans finally beginning to understand their power to legislate with this tiny majority comes 100% from the ability to stick together? Dems have known this forever it seems.
Is it too much to ask that we the people see what’s in the bills before they are passed, after all aren’t we the ones paying the tab? I do realize that most are passed without even the congressmen and women reading them but ………. Are we supposed to believe that because it’s a Republican bill that it is all good. DOGE has really opened my eyes and I’m tired of the waste, abuse, fraud and frivolous spending of my money. I would think that that would be what everyone would want.