Speaker Mike Johnson laid out an ambitious timeline Sunday for a mammoth budget reconciliation package that would enact much of President-elect Donald Trump’s legislative agenda in the first 100 days of his new administration.
The House plans to pass a single reconciliation bill as soon as April 3 that would incorporate border security, the extension of expiring tax cuts and an increase in the nation’s borrowing limit coupled with spending cuts, among other things, Johnson said on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” program. He said the Senate would then clear the package for Trump’s signature by the end of April or “certainly by May.”
Senate Republicans and a key faction of House GOP conservatives have been urging a two-bill approach, with border security and defense spending first, coupled with energy deregulation measures and offsetting spending reductions, before turning to the tax-cut package.
