{"id":10708,"date":"2025-06-27T17:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-july-4-is-not-the-end-all\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:31:52","slug":"trump-says-july-4-is-not-the-end-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-july-4-is-not-the-end-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says July 4 is \u201cnot the end all\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Friday backed off the July 4 deadline he set for Congress to pass his megabill, acknowledging that the timing could slip as Republicans work through a series of political and logistical hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the end all,\u201d Trump said of the self-imposed Independence Day goal. \u201cIt can go longer, but we\u2019d like to get it done by that time if possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks represented a clear softening of the White House\u2019s position from just a day earlier, when Trump administration officials insisted that the GOP lawmakers pass the domestic policy package within a week despite a series of fresh obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican leaders are still struggling to lock down the necessary 51 votes for the bill, amid objections from competing factions over the depth of the legislation\u2019s Medicaid cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The effort has also been hamstrung by a flurry of adverse rulings by the Senate parliamentarian that are now forcing lawmakers to rewrite significant portions of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The president indicated that he has little interest as of now in trying to directly overrule or even fire the parliamentarian \u2014 a step that some close allies in Congress had called for after she disqualified several of the bill\u2019s provisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parliamentarian\u2019s been a little difficult,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI disagree with the parliamentarian on some things, and on other ways she\u2019s been fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed those issues on Thursday, saying Trump still expected Republicans to coalesce in the coming days and put the bill on his desk by July 4.<\/p>\n<p>But asked directly on Friday, Trump took a more ambivalent stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of committed people and they feel strongly about a subject, subjects that you\u2019re not even thinking about that are important to Republicans,\u201d he said, appearing to reference the policy divisions within the Senate GOP conference.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also singled out Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for praise despite his resistance to the bill, complaining instead about the lack of Democratic votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem we have is it\u2019s a great bill, it\u2019s a popular bill,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut we\u2019ll get no Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If all Republicans vote for the bill, it would not need Democrats\u2019 support to pass.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Friday backed off the July 4 deadline he set for Congress to pass his megabill, acknowledging that the timing could slip as Republicans work through a series of political and logistical hurdles. \u201cIt\u2019s not the end all,\u201d Trump said of the self-imposed Independence Day goal. \u201cIt can go longer, but we\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}