Republican leadership in the House has its hands full this week. House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to get about a dozen fiscally conservative Republicans to sign off on the Senate’s budget plan by the end of the week.
President Donald Trump has urged the House to “quickly” pass the plan that the Senate approved on a party-line vote after 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
Eager to calm turbulent markets, extend Trump’s expiring 2017 tax cuts, and provide funding to secure the border, House leadership is working to get potential GOP rebels in line.
What’s leadership’s argument to GOP budget hawks? Namely, that members of Congress should not worry too much about the plan’s implications for the budget deficit, because it isn’t binding.
“Look, the resolution is not the law itself,” Johnson told The Daily Signal at the Capitol.
