Mike Johnson praises Trump administrators for their collaboration on “Big, Beautiful Bills”
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. promoted a close coordination between Congress and the President Donald Trump Collaboration is about passing “one big and beautiful bill” well, saying that it is part of the “beauty of a unified government.”
Congress officially passed Trump’s hundreds of millions of dollars bill Thursday afternoon after consecutive sleepless sessions in both the House and Senate.
The massive agenda package will be signed to be signed on Trump’s desk in time for Republicans’ July 4th deadline.
“Big and beautiful bill“The passage marked the first major law passed under the Trump administration, and was the first to pass while Republicans controlled the administrative division and both Congresses.
Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La. and President Donald Trump (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images and AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Speaking to reporters after the passage of the huge spending bill on Thursday, Johnson said, “The beauty of a unified government is that this is exactly how it works.
“How it works is because it is the best for people and that adjustment has great consequences for people.
The chairman is the people within the Trump administration, including the Cabinet Secretary; vice president The President was willing to ask questions from members of Congress.
“President Trump was very generous in answering questions to himself. Vice President JDVance was engaged in the direct. We had Cabinet Secretaries in many different federal agencies answering questions from members. Some of them even got their agency lawyers really deep into the weeds of details,” Johnson said.
House speaker candidate Mike Johnson, R-La. speaks to fellow members after being nominated for a speaker in the Longworth House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol on October 24, 2023. (Tom Brenner of the Washington Post by Getty Images)
“It was tough four years before this last election cycle,” the speaker added. “I knew that if we had a unified government, we would need to literally modify every area of public policy. Democratic government. ”
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The bill promoted Trump’s policies on tax, border, defense, energy and national debt, and passed the House slightly, primarily by partisan votes. All but two Republicans, R-KY. Rep. Thomas Massey and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) voted for the bill and passed 218-214.
It’s the commander Johnson’s victory And for the president who both spent the night trying to persuade GOP critics to critics of the bill.
President Donald Trump will head to his oval office on the southern lawn of the White House on his way to Florida, Washington, on March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
After the bill passed, Johnson described his role in switching the vote to “yes” to GOP Holdout, saying, “My leadership style is trying to become a servant leader.”
He said many members wanted to take the time to “go really deep in the weeds” about the changes the Senate made to the bill, so they felt it was his job to give each member time to address their concerns.
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“As a leader, I knew I had to take the time to do that,” he explained. “And some of it went late into the night, and I wasn’t going to make anybody – I wasn’t going to demand someone’s position on the vote or bill until they felt they had exhausted the opportunity, so we did that.
Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.