{"id":12580,"date":"2025-02-10T08:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/speaker-johnson-says-house-will-match-trumps-pace-as-democrats-are-left-flailing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T08:15:42","slug":"speaker-johnson-says-house-will-match-trumps-pace-as-democrats-are-left-flailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/speaker-johnson-says-house-will-match-trumps-pace-as-democrats-are-left-flailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson says House will match Trump\u2019s pace as Democrats are left \u2018flailing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paywall has-gated-overlay gated-article-body\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">House Speaker Mike Johnson poked fun at &#8216;flailing&#8217; Democrats on Sunday and vowed that the House of Representatives would be just as aggressive in pushing legislation as President Donald Trump has been with executive orders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Johnson made the statement during an appearance on &#8216;Fox News Sunday&#8217; with host Shannon Bream. Johnson said House Republicans are working to compile the massive legislative package Trump has requested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We&#8217;re going to secure the border, we&#8217;re going to make sure that American communities are safe. We&#8217;re going to get American energy dominance going again in the economy and restore common sense,&#8217; Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But to do all that in one big bill takes a little bit of time. So we&#8217;re working through that process very productively. We&#8217;ve been building on this for a year, Shannon. All through last year, we had our committees of jurisdiction working on the ideas to put it together,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were going to do a budget committee markup next week. We might push it a little bit further because the details really matter. Remember that I have the smallest margin in history, about a two vote margin currently. So I&#8217;ve got to make sure everyone agrees before we bring the project forward, that final product, and we&#8217;ve got a few more boxes to check, but we&#8217;re getting very, very close,&#8217; he continued.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The budget bill process has not been without its share of in-fighting, however. Republican spending hawks are pushing leaders to include at least $2.5 trillion in spending cuts in the massive legislative package.<\/p>\n<p>One GOP lawmaker said that tension bubbled up in a closed-door meeting last week with several &#8216;heated exchanges,&#8217; with conservatives demanding a concrete plan and minimum spending cuts at significantly higher levels than what was initially proposed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think there\u2019s a lot of frustration right now,&#8217; the lawmaker told Fox News Digital. &#8216;They\u2019ve been trying to be inclusive, but not every open forum they\u2019ve offered is giving members the ability to say, \u2018I feel like people are listening to me,\u2019 because I don\u2019t know that\u2019s the case right now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., two conservative members of the House Budget Committee, both told reporters they wanted to see the baseline for spending cuts set at roughly $2.5 trillion.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News&#8217; Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson poked fun at &#8216;flailing&#8217; Democrats on Sunday and vowed that the House&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stocksflux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}