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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

A win for Mike Johnson? The finish line of the speaker’s budget marathon is still far in the distance

Mike Johnson notched another victory for Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda on Thursday, but the struggle to get the Republican Party’s budget passed into law is only at the halfway point.

With the House and Senate GOP caucuses now due to reconcile two budget frameworks into one, the real work begins: finding as much as $1.5 trillion in spending cuts that won’t scare vulnerable moderate Republicans in swing districts off from the final package.

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