Johnson Reveals Details Trump Agenda After Closed-door Meetings

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) managed to win the gavel again on the first ballot, something that did not seem possible even as the votes were being counted.

Initially, three members voted against Johnson, but a quick call from Trump, and two of them flipped, giving Johnson the 218 votes he needed.

Johnson has reportedly been meeting with Trump regarding the agenda issues he wants to see legislated in Congress, and now Johnson is spilling the beans, so to speak.

The Agenda

I have been telling conservatives from the outset of this election that you really need to temper expectations because we are not going to get everything that was promised.

Simply put, the GOP does not have the numbers and to get the entire agenda passed, they will have to use reconciliation, which means omnibus legislation, which we were promised would no longer take place (especially after the GOP raged about the Dems using reconciliation).

But, as we all know, in politics, what one side cries about when they are not in power, they do when they come into power, and that is issue number one that Johnson stated will happen.

He knows the only way he can get certain policies passed will be to use reconciliation, and that is what he and Trump talked about.

But such a bill will require Republicans to go back on their word, especially if the bill has a spending deficit, which will raise the national debt, which they had pledged to reduce.

This week, Johnson stated that he would pass the agenda in “one big beautiful bill” by the spring, openly admitting it would be omnibus legislation and that they would use reconciliation to pass it.

So, the question that remains is if both the Senate and House can get the entire caucus to support such legislation because they have very few votes to spare here.

To support such legislation means that elected officials will have to go back on their word to their constituents to pass the legislation, and are they willing to risk that while at the same time becoming a target for Trump’s wrath?

All I know is if they go that route to pass that legislation, and our national debt has increased when mid-term elections roll around, the Dems are going to clobber us in the mid-term election and turn Trump into a lame-duck president, likely also handing Dems back the White House in 2028.

There is a lot riding on this legislation, so Johnson and Trump better get it right.