The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, met with President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon at the Oval Office, where they curled up on the political strategy of the Republican Party in a fundamental period of legislative businesses, with its majorities of Congress in the line.
As Congress returns to Washington after a two -week recess and the president approaches 100 days in office, Republicans hope to sharply remodel federal expenditure to align with the president’s national agenda.
After meeting with the president, Johnson returned to the Capitol to meet with senior administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, and the main Republicans of Congress dealt with budgetary reconciliation.
“We are working on the great and beautiful bill, the draft reconciliation law,” Johnson told journalists. “Now is the game time, since the great developments will join. We are excited about that. I think it will be a great legislation.”
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, speaks with journalists just after the House Republicans approved their budgetary frame that is fundamental for the agenda of President Donald Trump, in the Washington Capitol, on April 10, 2025.
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Flanked by the director of the National Economic Council of the White House, Kevin Hassett and James Blair, president’s assistant, Besent told journalists after Monday’s meeting that he found “great unit” among the republican leaders of the congress, with the camera and the Senate moving quickly and “in Lockstep” in a draft budget law focused on Trump’s priorities.
The meeting included the leader of the majority of the Senate John Thune, Johnson, the president of the Senate Finance Committee, Mike Crapo, and the president of the Media and Media Committee of the House of Representatives, Jason Smith.
“We believe they are in a substantial agreement, and that this will be a victory for the American people. Very well growth,” Besent continued.
He said there were “three legs” on the president’s economic agenda: trade, taxes and deregulation. He said they expected to carry out this part of the Budget Package Taxes before July 4.
“Both parties have proposals in front of the president, and we believe that there is a way to deliver the necessary expenses reforms to obtain a large tax package in favor of growth, along with the priorities of the president he established in the campaign,” said Besent.
Hasett reiterated Trump’s statement that a multimillionaire tax reduction is out of the table. Besent said that the priorities for the package would be to make tax cuts and permanent jobs law, without taxes on advice, without social security taxes, without tax on extra hours and deductibility for loans for cars manufactured in the United States.
Republicans have begun to publish legislative text to encode their high ambitions to reduce at least $ 2 billion of federal expenses during the next decade, with six brands scheduled this week and additional audiences anticipated in the coming weeks as conservatives face the last test of their close majority.
“It’s going to solve many problems,” Johnson predicted. “It will be a turboalte for the economy, and we are eager to do it.”
But when Trump arrives at his centenary in office this week, surveys show public pleasure in the president’s work performance. However, Johnson maintains the belief that the Republican Party is ready to defend his narrow majority, claiming that Republicans “are playing offensive.”
“We talk about the next races, the mid -period elections and we are very optimistic,” Johnson proclaimed. “There are 13 Democrats sitting in districts won by President Trump. Those are the obvious goals. We have an offensive map. There are only three Republicans of the House of Representatives in the districts that Kamala Harris won. Therefore, it is an unequal map, it gives us a great opportunity and we are going to make history.”
Even so, Johnson acknowledged that there have been some ups and downs in the early stages of the administration.
“These presidential terms are a roller coaster sometimes. There has been some tumult in the markets with tariff policy and all that, but I think this is being resolved,” said Johnson. “People are in a good mood. They understand that this is a long game to play.”
-ABC News’ Isabella Murray contributed to this report.
