The president of the room, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday that the Republicans become “very, very close” to a framework for a bill to advance the agenda of President Donald Trump, defending the role of the Chamber In the direction of the process while the GOP senators present their own plan.
“(Senators) want to move the agenda, and we too. President Trump obtained a mandate to deliver this “America First” program. He works at a breakneck rhythm, “said Johnson” Fox News Sunday “, adding this to advance Trump’s agenda in a single bill, As the republicans of the house prefer“Take a little time.”
“Lindsey is a good friend,” said Johnson about the President of the Senate Budget Committee, Lindsey Graham, who was in Florida this weekend with Trump and other Republicans of the Senate presenting their own budgetary resolution.
Johnson referred to the several -hour meeting that he and other key republicans had with Trump in the White House, as well as a meeting of the later GOP Thursday evening, saying: “We are very, very close. “”
Although the leaders of the GOP in the Chamber hoped to start following the first stages of their plan in a markup of the Budget Committee this week, Johnson said: “We could push a little further, because the details really count.”
Johnson, who will be in the rest of Trump at the Super Bowl Sunday evening, in New Orleans, said that his message to the president is: “We will do the job, but it must be Big Bill’s strategy.”