Newly re-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson is determined to push President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda forward as he reveals how the president-elect wants Congress to handle the reconciliation debacle.
“I think at the end of the day, President Trump is going to prefer, as he likes to say, one big, beautiful bill,” Johnson admitted to “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo.
The speaker went on to add that he’s talked to the president-elect extensively over the last few months, trying to determine “the pros and cons of the two different strategies,” one reconciliation bill or a “skinny reconciliation bill.”
“There’s a lot of merit to that [one reconciliation bill] because we can put it all together, one big up or down vote, which can save the country quite literally, because there are so many elements to it,” Johnson said.
Johnson expressed that one reconciliation billwill “have a lot of pieces” and address a lot of the concerns Americans voiced during the election, such as securing the …