President Mike Johnson minimized the division between the Chamber and the Senate on Monday on how to advance the agenda of President Donald Trump. The republican chief tries to merge his close majority behind a budgetary plan which would advance a bill and the Senate forged his own strategy of two TRACs.
“I had a good time talking with Lindsey Graham at the Super Bowl in the following with the president, and he and I are on the same wavelength,” he told CNN.
Graham, president of the Senate budget committee, published the text of the bill on Friday for a package which would give $ 150 billion to the Defense soldiers and $ 175 billion for border security, with the intention of consulting The increase in inner energy financing and to extend the 2017 tax reductions in another package. He ran an increase on the bill on the bill on Wednesday.
“There is no daylight between us. We all want exactly the same thing. We work on the best and most efficient and effective way to get there. I continue to believe that this is the strategy of a Vill, “he said. Johnson added that Graham “understands that”, but that the senators “want to move and show some action”.
Graham later said that he prefers a bill, “but reality is quite different.” He argued that the Ministry of Internal Security needs more funds as soon as possible to implement Trump’s border policies, and that waiting to finalize a more complex and complete package is not acceptable.
Pressed by Raju on the quantity of Senate that complicates the process, Johnson replied: “I would not say that it is useful”, but added: “We all feel the same sense of urgency.”
Meanwhile, House Freedom Caucus Deplores his own budgetary plan in the middle of the confrontation within the GOP conference on the way to go. The Caucus wants a strategy of two TRUCs like the Republicans of the Senate, but their bill differs considerably from this plan also, setting up another complication in this process.
Their plan includes $ 200 billion in border and defense silver (about half of what the Senate bill would do), an increase in the debt ceiling to 4 billions of dollars (not in the Senate bill ) and $ 486 billion in discounts which, according to them, will result in $ 286 billion in real deficit for more than 10 years.
This message has been updated with details on the plan of the House Freedom Caucus and Graham’s comments. Lauren Fox from CNN has contributed to report to this position.