House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has positioned himself as a partner to the president, has said he's excited about what Trump is accomplishing in rooting out waste, fraud and abuse to downsize government.
“Fireworks,” is what Johnson, R-La., said he expects from Trump's speech, dismissing as “nonsense” concerns that Congress is ceding too much power to the White House.
“The president is doing what he said on the campaign trail he would do," Johnson said Sunday on Fox News Channel.
Democrats, after their stunning rejection by voters, are slowly beginning to mount a resistance. But as the minority party, they are limited in their power. House Democrat leader, Hakeem Jeffries, brushed off calls for Democrats to boycott Trump's address. "It’s the people’s House. It’s the House of Representatives,” he said on CNN.
One of Trump's top campaign promises, extending the tax breaks approved during his first term in 2017, is posing one of his party's biggest challenges.
Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota are marshalling the GOP majority to deliver what Trump calls a “big, beautiful bill” extending those tax breaks — and providing new ones. But Republicans also want some $2 trillion in budget cuts.
