Mike Johnson Touts ‘Forward Momentum’ As Megabill Vote Put On Ice
The president of the room, Mike Johnson, said on Wednesday evening that there was “a momentum before” to adopt the signature bill of President Donald Trump following a group of republicans of the chamber who come together to prevent the Chamber from taking the measure quickly.
Johnson moved to launch a series of votes to advance the “big, beautiful” bill of the president on Wednesday afternoon, but a procedural vote remained open for more than three hours while the management of the GOP and Trump met the selected to discuss their concerns. A group of conservatives of the Chamber injected the brakes into the fact of quickly adopting the bill modified by the Senate, arguing that the product of the upper chamber increases budget deficits by more than half a billion dollars and does not immediately end up dismissing green energy subsidies. (Related: House wrinkles waste little time throwing cold water on the version of the Megabill Senate)
“There is a lot of momentum before and we are very optimistic about the result,” said Johnson to journalists on Wednesday evening. “Even if the Senate has changed some of our products, the extraordinary things of this bill are so important to the American people and most of our program is wrapped in this legislation, so it must adopt. We must deliver for the people. “
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Johnson can afford to save a handful of votes given the majority of the Republicans of the Chamber. All the Democrats in the Chamber were present on Wednesday and should unanimously oppose the President’s internal policy bill during each procedural vote and consideration on the final adoption.
The delayed adoption of the historic bill of the president in the House intervened after several groups of GOP legislators, including selected, went to the White House on Wednesday to meet the president to discuss the status of the legislation.
Trump, whom several Republicans of the Chamber called “closest” because of its effectiveness in the overthrow several times to a “yes”, requires that the legislation be on his desk by July 4. The inability to erase a key procedural obstacle so far could put this chronology in doubt.
The speaker received good news on Wednesday evening in the middle of the standby procedure. The republican representative of Ohio Warren Davidson – one of the two GOP legislators to vote against the initial bill of the Chamber – told journalists that he would vote “yes” on the legislation modified by the Senate.
“I want it to be a small product, but I think it’s as good as we will get it – not only before July 4,” Davidson told Daily Call News Foundation. “If we have run it longer, the real deadline is the debt limit. And I think that even if we have run it longer, the chances of obtaining a better product before this debt limit are really low.”
However, a group of House members Freedom Caucus (HFC) has not reached the same conclusion.
“We were not satisfied with what the Senate produced,” the Republican representative of Texas, Chip Roy, speaking for himself and other HFC members said on Wednesday afternoon. “We thought there was a way to follow recently last week, even if I had concerns with the public on this subject, but they scraped it [in] The last minute in a way that does not totally fascinate us. »»
“Now we are trying to understand what our options from this point,” added Roy. “We must understand how to invent $ 600 billion more interest – that’s what we are trying to work.”
HFC president Andy Harris, who went to the White House earlier Wednesday to meet the president, told journalists on Wednesday afternoon that his concerns about the impact of the bill had not yet been dealt with.
“The main thing is that it is not ready for great listening hours,” Harris told Fox News on Tuesday after the Senate of the President’s internal policy bill. “The president’s agenda should not increase the deficit by three quarters of a dollars Billion over the next 10 years.”
“It will not sail in the house,” continued the HFC chair. “We will have to negotiate with the Senate once again, and it is simply appropriate. This is how the legislative process works and the way it should work on a bill of this size. ”
Washington, DC-May 21: The president of the president of the Caucus of the Freedom Freedom Andy Harris (R-MD) leaves the office of the president of the Chamber Mike Johnson (R-La) during the current negotiations between the management of the Chamber, the White House and the House Freedom Caucus on the “Big, Beautiful Bill” at the Capitol US Capitol on May 21, 2025 Washington, dc. (Photo of Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)
The HFC distributed a three -page memo on Wednesday which listed more than 15 concerns concerning the bill modified by the Senate, including the increase in deficit expenditure.
“It was not what Chef Thune and President Johnson promised,” said the memo.
Roy said he wanted to see an amendment to the Senate bill which would accelerate the termination of the green energy tax credit and join a budgetary framework of the Chamber to ensure a neutral approach to the deficit in the tax bill and expenses.
“We are not doing enough on the cuts. We are not doing enough to meet the time on compulsory expenses,” Roy told “Steve Bannon’s War Room” on Wednesday.
“I will not be launched on the policies that care about the Texans, which ends the” new green scam “and not to accumulate more deficits,” added Roy.
The republicans of the Chamber also argued that the product of the Senate had violated a budgetary framework of the Chamber to ensure that the product had little or no impact on the deficit. The tax portion of the invoice of the Upper Chamber cost in particular about $ 540 billion more than the initial proposal of the Chamber, according to the analysis of the Bipartisan Policy Center.
“The rule will be defeated and it will not only be the members of the Freedom Caucus,” Harris told journalists before the vote. “The speaker will have to decide if he will bring this closer to the frame of the room.”
The White House has the conservative concern about the impact of the deficit by focusing on potential economic growth which could be generated by the bill which, in turn, would result in close income and budget deficits.
“No one wants to talk about growth, which will be the main reason why the great and beautiful bill will be one of the most successful laws ever adopted,” Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday.
Although several moderate republicans have expressed concerns that the reforms of the Senate bill in Medicaid have gone too far, none has publicly committed to voting against the bill modified by the Senate on the final adoption.
The Republican representative of New Jersey, Jeff Van Drew, a moderate, told journalists that the delayed implementation of reducing the tax rate of the Medicaid supplier had made him feel better to vote “yes” on the procedural rule.
Moderate GOP legislators have repeatedly expressed their concern that the reprimand on a tax maneuver that states use to receive federal dollars from additional Medicaids could reduce a flow of critical funding in rural hospitals.
“Three years is a life in this place,” Van Drew told journalists. “You could delay it in the future, you could change it in the future.”
GOP’s management has expressed its optimism that the holduts will end on board. They argue that despite the Senate making changes to budget packaging on the edges, the main elements of the initial bill of the Chamber remain intact.
“When you look at the entire bill, even more than 85% of what the room spent a few weeks ago is still in this final product,” said the head of the majority of the room on Wednesday, Steve Scalise.
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