Republican House Leaders Plan Swift Passage Of Trump Priority Mega-bill: Congressman Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has announced plans to secure passage of a multi-trillion-dollar bill addressing immigration, tax cuts, the debt limit, energy policy, tariffs, and business de-regulation by mid-April. Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Congressional Republicans are eager to help the incoming president enact his campaign promises, including unprecedented border security spending, business deregulation, boosting energy production, and raising the US debt ceiling. But with a new razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives and similarly tight Senate margins, Democratic opposition could stymie the efforts.
Speaker Johnson plans to combine several priorities into one gigantic piece of legislation that could move through Congress under rules of so-called Reconciliation. Such a tool allows budget related bills to clear the 100 member Senate with a simple majority, rather than a typical 60-vote threshold. Johnson said he aimed to have an initial House vote on the bill as early as April 3. He envisioned it then clearing the Senate and being signed into law by the end of April.
The Mega-Bill would include:
- -- Funding for securing the US-Mexico border
- -- Funds for deporting undocumented immigrants
- -- Restore American energy dominance
- -- Extending the 2017 “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” tax cuts
- -- Raising the US Debt Limit
- -- Spending cuts to pay for tax cuts
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