Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is staking his political future on one daunting task—delivering a budget reconciliation bill that will satisfy both houses of Congress.
In order to pass “one big, beautiful bill” to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, Johnson will have to make good on his own commitments to the most fiscally conservative members of the House of Representatives.
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Senate’s budget plan by the narrowest of margins, 216-214.
The passage of the shared budget resolution—a necessary first step in the larger budgetary process—was achieved amid some skepticism from hard-line fiscal conservatives in the House over whether the Senate plan could sufficiently cut the deficit.
Democrats voted against it unanimously, while Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of…
