House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that Republicans are getting “very, very close” to a framework for a bill to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda, defending the House’s role in leading the process as GOP senators present their own plan.
“(Senators) want to move the agenda, and so do we. President Trump got a mandate to deliver that ‘America First’ agenda. He’s working at breakneck pace,” Johnson told “Fox News Sunday,” adding that to advance Trump’s agenda in one bill, as House Republicans prefer, “takes a little bit of time.”
“Lindsey is a good friend,” Johnson said of Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, who was in Florida this weekend with Trump and other Senate Republicans presenting their own budget resolution.
Johnson referenced the multi-hour meeting that he and other key Republicans had with Trump at the White House, as well as a subsequent GOP leadership meeting on Thursday evening, saying, “We’re very, very close.”
Though House GOP leaders had hoped to start working through initial steps on their plan in a budget committee markup this week, Johnson said, “We might push it a little bit further, because the details really matter.”
Johnson, who will be in Trump’s suite at the Super Bowl on Sunday night in New Orleans, said his message to the president is, “We will get the job done, but it has to be the one big bill strategy.”