President Donald Trump is pushing House Republicans to “quickly” adopt the Senate’s new budget framework, and Speaker Mike Johnson says “speed really matters.” But fiscal hawks still aren’t sold on the clock’s-ticking pitch.
House GOP leaders plan to tee up a final vote midweek on the fiscal road map they need to adopt in order to draft and pass Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” along party lines later this year.
Deficit hawks, irked that the Senate didn’t match their mandate of $2 trillion in spending cuts to balance out tax cuts, still want to make more tweaks to the budget measure that’s already ping-ponged across the Capitol three times in less than two months.
Trump and Johnson’s leading argument: Republicans need to get cranking now on Trump’s legislative agenda, with Johnson hammering home the point that progress is especially critical as the president’s tariffs continue to rattle financial markets.
