{"id":2436266,"date":"2025-05-18T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-adamant-big-beautiful-bill-will-serve-as-vehicle-trump-agenda-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T21:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:47:25","slug":"johnson-adamant-big-beautiful-bill-will-serve-as-vehicle-trump-agenda-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/johnson-adamant-big-beautiful-bill-will-serve-as-vehicle-trump-agenda-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson adamant &#8216;big, beautiful bill&#8217; will serve as &#8216;vehicle&#8217; Trump agenda &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohnson-adamant-big-beautiful-bill-will-serve-as-vehicle-trump-agenda-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2436266&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed strong commitment to advancing President Donald Trump&#8217;s policy agenda through a significant piece of legislation termed teh &#8220;one big, beautiful bill.&#8221; He emphasized the importance of unifying the Republican majority in the House to effectively deliver on the electorate&#8217;s mandate from the last election. Johnson outlined key objectives of the bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White ... Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">historic tax relief<\/a><\/a>, investments in border security, adn enhancing programs like Medicaid for eligible citizens, while addressing concerns over waste and fraud in public assistance programs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite some factions within the House raising objections,particularly regarding the clarity of the bill on state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-lawmakers-relaunch-caucus-to-raise-salt-cap\/\" title=\"... Lawmakers Relaunch Caucus to Raise SALT Cap\">local tax caps<\/a>,Johnson remains optimistic about moving the reconciliation bill forward. He plans for the legislation to advance to the House Rules Committee and reach the House floor for a vote by the end of the week. Additionally, he is coordinating with Senate Majority Leader John thune (R-SD) to ensure smooth passage through the Senate, with hopes of having the bill on Trump&#8217;s desk by Independence Day.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Johnson adamant &lsquo;big, beautiful bill&rsquo; will serve as &lsquo;vehicle&rsquo; for Trump agenda<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2122885\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) vowed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Republicans<\/a> will not squander their slim majority, expressing optimism they will advance President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> agenda. He urged his fellow lawmakers to unify and advance the president&rsquo;s &ldquo;one big, beautiful bill&rdquo; as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the House Budget Committee are reconvening on Sunday night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3413902\/fiscal-hawks-sink-big-beautiful-bill-house-budget-vote-trump-unity-plea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">after sinking the reconciliation bill on Friday<\/a>, in which several House Republicans expressed frustration with the legislation&rsquo;s ambiguity on raising the state and local tax caps. Johnson, who has pushed to have the reconciliation bill passed by Memorial Day, stated that he plans for this bill to proceed to the House Rules Committee by mid-week before going to the House floor at the end of the week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3415221\/al-green-military-coup-trump-attacks-democratic-warnings\/\">Al Green suggests military coup coming under Trump, refuses to pivot from attacks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3415204\/mccarthy-trump-johnson-job-speaker-tax-bill-house\/\">McCarthy suggests Trump doing Johnson&rsquo;s job as speaker after &lsquo;big beautiful bill&rsquo; crashes in House<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3413986\/how-nice-too-nice-politics-jeff-hurd-find-out\/\">How nice is too nice for politics? Jeff Hurd wants to find out<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;This is the vehicle through which we will deliver on the mandate that the American people gave us in the last election,&rdquo; Johnson explained on <em>Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream<\/em>. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re going to have historic savings for the American people, historic tax relief for American workers, historic investments in border security at the same time that we&rsquo;re restoring American energy dominance, and we&rsquo;re rebuilding the defense industrial base. And we&rsquo;re ensuring that programs like Medicaid and SNAP are strengthened for the U.S. Citizens who need and deserve them, and not being squandered away by illegal aliens and persons who are ineligible to receive them and are cheating the system.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2940940&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=e8845b7a2d5c6b9680d8b97d1d98a4e5\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Johnson also addressed some House members&rsquo; concerns over work requirements in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/medicaid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medicaid<\/a>. However, he explained that the House is working to ensure that individual states can enforce the new safeguards being implemented.<\/p>\n<p>He added that some states need &ldquo;some time&rdquo; to change their systems to eliminate waste and fraud. As such, this is an issue where &ldquo;compromise&rdquo; may be necessary to advance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3414413\/three-factions-reconciliations-holding-up-trump-one-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">THE THREE FACTIONS HOLDING UP TRUMP&rsquo;S &lsquo;ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL&rsquo;&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Senate, Johnson said he is coordinating &ldquo;carefully&rdquo; with Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-thune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Thune<\/a> (R-SD) and expressed hope that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senate<\/a> will not make many modifications. He also was confident that the bill would make it to Trump&rsquo;s desk by Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>Amid division among House Republicans, former Republican House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kevin-mccarthy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> suggested that the bill could get passed now that Trump is back in Washington D.C. following a week in the Middle East. McCarthy took a dig at Johnson<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3415204\/mccarthy-trump-johnson-job-speaker-tax-bill-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">, suggesting that Trump has dual duties of being both president and House speaker<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2122885\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2122885\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson insists &#8216;big, beautiful bill&#8217; will drive Trump&#8217;s agenda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2436267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mike-Johnson-Bill-vehicle-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[55268,4162,5894,32891,32076],"class_list":["post-2436266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-big-beautiful-bill","tag-johnson","tag-politics","tag-trump-agenda","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mike-Johnson-Bill-vehicle-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436270,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436266\/revisions\/2436270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}