Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that President Donald Trump backs his effort to block proxy voting for new parents, a day after the president scrambled Johnson’s plans and endorsed a move to allow it.

Johnson thanked Trump in the X post for a recent phone call, in which he attributed Trump as saying: “Mike, you have my proxy on proxy voting.”

Johnson is in a serious bind on the matter, with the House floor effectively frozen until he can secure an agreement. Trump added a new wrinkle Thursday by telling reporters he didn’t see what was so “controversial” about Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s push to allow new parents to vote by proxy.

GOP leaders hope Trump’s blessing of Johnson’s position will persuade Luna to back off her plans to force a floor vote on the plan next week. Hard-liners have threatened to block any floor action until Luna’s proxy vote push is snuffed out.

Notably, Trump didn’t post any statement himself after saying Thursday that women having a baby should be able to vote by proxy. Luna told reporters several days ago that she didn’t want to involve Trump, but if he got involved, she was confident he would be supportive of her pro-woman, pro-family effort.

President Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-Fla.) resolution to allow proxy voting for expectant mothers in Congress — but signaled he isn’t interested in going to the mat for the change.

“I don’t know why it’s controversial,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday, according to a pool report.

The support for Luna’s push comes after Trump spoke with the member of Congress on Wednesday. Luna told NewsNation Wednesday that “the president assured that this would get resolved.”

The proxy vote fight has stalled Speaker Mike Johnson’s ambitious plan to pass the “big, beautiful” budget bill, after a handful of Republicans joined Democrats to reject Johnson’s moves to block Luna’s proposal. Johnson repeated his opposition on Wednesday, but said there “may be a path” to get the House unjammed.

Trump said Thursday that he’s in favor of the resolution. But he stressed that the decision rests with Johnson.

“I’m going to let the speaker make the decision, but I like the idea,” Trump added.

After successfully engineering a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump, Senate Democrats want to do it again: They’re eyeing a new measure that could splinter Republicans and potentially undo the sweeping tariffs Trump rolled out Wednesday.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who led the push to undo Trump’s Canada tariffs that won approval Wednesday, said it was “likely” that Democrats would move forward with legislation taking aim at the new, more sweeping levies. The vote, he said, wouldn’t occur until after the Senate returns from a two-week recess slated to start on April 11.

One of the laws Trump used to levy the latest tariffs, the National Emergencies Act, allows Congress to quickly debate and vote on a disapproval resolution that would effectively cancel the tariffs. But actually doing so faces major obstacles: Not only would the Senate have to act, but the GOP-controlled House would have to approve the same measure. Trump could then still veto it, forcing a two-thirds-majority override vote.

Democrats are still poring through Trump’s latest round of sweeping tariffs to determine which ones they could potentially target for cancellation. But Kaine said he believed support for rolling back the new tariffs will only grow with time. Four Republicans joined Democrats on Wednesday’s vote, and he predicted a “larger universe” of support for the forthcoming measure.

“I think people need to go home and hear what their constituents are telling them, so I think having it timed so that it comes up over recess is the right time,” Kaine said.

Separately, Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York — the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee — said Wednesday he would introduce a similar measure. Speaker Mike Johnson led an effort to block a vote on a Meeks-led disapproval resolution targeting the Canada tariffs last month and could do so again for the new round of tariffs.