And when he joined Senator Lindsey Graham, the Senate GOP’s chief appropriator, alongside Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso and the president at the Super Bowl, Johnson was projecting pure Republican unity.
Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s in lockstep with his colleagues in the House and Senate on the issue of budget reconciliation — the filibuster-free process by which Republicans are hoping to achieve key policy objectives in Donald Trump’s first year.
Much of the debate could end up being centered on cuts to Medicaid, which news outlets reported on Monday will likely be a major point of the GOP’s strategy for funding both the extension of tax cuts and other GOP priorities.
The speaker sat down with Fox News Sunday this weekend and gave an updated timeline for the leadership-approved budget package he will try and push through the narrowest of majorities in the House — a bill that will require every Republican vote, or just about, to pass.
Johnson saw success throughout the last year of Joe Biden’s presidency in his efforts to manage an unruly House GOP majority held together by just a handful of votes.
