{"id":10860,"date":"2025-07-01T20:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-on-the-megabill-im-not-happy-with-what-the-senate-did-to-our-product\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:47:50","slug":"johnson-on-the-megabill-im-not-happy-with-what-the-senate-did-to-our-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-on-the-megabill-im-not-happy-with-what-the-senate-did-to-our-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson on the megabill: &#8216;I&#8217;m not happy with what the Senate did to our product\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he\u2019s not happy with the sprawling legislation Senate Republicans just sent back to the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not happy with what the Senate did to our product. We understand this is the process. It goes back and forth, and we&#8217;ll be working to get all of our members to yes,\u201d Johnson said outside the House Rules Committee, which convened to debate the GOP megabill Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo high stakes, aggressive schedule, and we knew we would come to this moment,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come as conservatives like Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) are saying they won&#8217;t vote for the domestic policy legislation, which Senate Republicans passed on the thinnest of margins Tuesday afternoon after a grueling all-night vote-a-rama.<\/p>\n<p>Norman told reporters outside the Rules committee that the House should send back its original plan to the Senate and leave town, instead of even considering the Senate Republican plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My advice is to send the House bill back, pack our bags and go home and tell them to get serious,\u201d Norman said of Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat math doesn\u2019t work out. They\u2019ve added $670 something billion dollars,\u201d Norman said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Norman\u2019s comments, Johnson huddled with Norman and fellow Rules committee and House Freedom Caucus member Chip Roy (R-Texas) in a room outside the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether July 4 is still a realistic deadline for getting the bill to President Donald Trump\u2019s desk, Johnson said, \u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens in the next 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he\u2019s not happy with the sprawling legislation Senate Republicans just sent back to the House. \u201cI&#8217;m not happy with what the Senate did to our product. We understand this is the process. It goes back and forth, and we&#8217;ll be working to get all of our members to yes,\u201d Johnson said [&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-10860","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\/10860","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=10860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}