Today’s notice: Being Mike Johnson. The trade war with China. Not traveling to Europe.
One Man’s Congress…
The holdouts folded fairly quickly on Thursday and the House passed a Senate budget framework, setting the stage for Donald Trump’s reconciliation bill. There’s a long way to go before the First Sharpie signs anything into law, but yesterday marked a significant step toward the kind of unified, generational Republican policy win many thought was simply not possible when the year started, given the tiny House majority and disparate demands of the conference factions.
This raises an obvious question: why is it possible?
NOTUS’ Reese Gorman, Daniella Diaz, Riley Rogerson and Katherine Swartz report that it’s due to one man: Trump.