GOP congressional leaders set the stage to move on Trump’s agenda

CNN — Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress have recently shared some of the first details of their ambitious agenda — sweeping tax cuts, border security and raising the debt limit — which they hope to muscle through in the first 100 days of the president-elect’s term. “At the end of the day, President Trump is going to prefer, as he likes to say, ‘one big, beautiful bill.’ And there’s a lot of merit to that … because there are so many elements to it, and it will give us a little bit more time to negotiate that and get it right,” Johnson told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” It will be a huge undertaking, especially with the slim GOP margin and the ambitious timeline of having the bill on Trump’s desk by the end of April. We think that a generational investment in the border is necessary, given where we are, after the last four years of what I think is a very failed Biden-Harris border policy,” he said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” That’s in contrast with the idea of doing one sweeping reconciliation package. Dramatic speaker’s vote signals challenges ahead Johnson told CNN on Friday that Trump’s endorsement was “a big factor” in the Louisiana Republican winning his bid to retain the speaker’s gavel. “We did this despite our sincere reservations regarding the Speaker’s track record over the last 15 months.” Listing out their legislative priorities, the lawmakers said Johnson has “zero room for error.” Trump had hoped to address the debt ceiling now in part so it wouldn’t affect the ambitious agenda he wants to get through Congress next year.