Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who expressed confidence at his chances of maintaining his leadership post, gave a preview of what “big ticket items” are on tap for 2025 with Republicans in control of the House, Senate, and White House.
Following a potentially contentious election in which Johnson is vying to keep the speaker’s gavel at the start of the new year, Congress will then set its sights on a legislative procedure to facilitate the passage of President-elect Donald Trump‘s priorities, the top House lawmaker indicated during a Monday evening interview on Fox News.
“We have to do a number of things simultaneously. The budget reconciliation process is going to be the key of the first 100 days, because in order to fix all the things that we’ve got to fix, we have to squeeze a lot of policy changes through that process,” Johnson told guest host Kellyanne Conway, a political strategist and former adviser to Trump.
“Not to get too deep in the weeds, but why that’s so valuable is it avoids a 60-vote threshold that’s necessary in the Senate under normal circumstances,” Johnson continued. “So we can move the Republican agenda, the ‘America First’ agenda through reconciliation, but it takes a lot of coordination, planning, and executing those plans with precision to get that done. So you’ll see a lot of energy on that.”
Johnson went on to discuss specific policy areas that will come into focus, including border security, the economy, energy, a bid to “restore our stature on the world stage,” and tax cuts implemented as part of a bill signed into law during Trump’s first term that are set to expire next year unless Congress renews them. […]
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