{"id":10931,"date":"2025-07-03T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-he-has-the-votes-to-pass-the-gop-megabill\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:32:04","slug":"johnson-says-he-has-the-votes-to-pass-the-gop-megabill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-says-he-has-the-votes-to-pass-the-gop-megabill\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson says he has the votes to pass the GOP megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Thursday morning he had the votes to pass Republicans\u2019 domestic policy megabill and would lose only \u201cone or two\u201d GOP lawmakers ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ll get this. We&#8217;ll land this plane before July 4,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders are barreling toward a final passage vote on the megabill as soon as this afternoon after pulling an all-nighter to advance the bill over the initial opposition of conservative holdouts upset at changes the Senate made to the package. Still, Johnson told reporters that while GOP lawmakers needed \u201ctime to digest\u201d the Senate\u2019s changes, many of their concerns were allayed with the help of President Donald Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president helped answer questions. We had Cabinet secretaries involved, and experts in all the fields, and I think they got there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He brushed aside concerns about Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), a purple-district lawmaker who was the sole lawmaker to oppose the procedural vote, saying he \u201ctried to encourage him to get to a yes\u201d though Johnson acknowledged Fitzpatrick has \u201cgot a number of things he\u2019s just concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final vote has been delayed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries\u2019 so-called magic minute, or the unlimited speaking time granted to party leaders that\u2019s been stretched into its sixth hour. Jeffries could break the all-time record set by then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who spoke for about eight and a half hours in 2021 to delay passage of Democrats\u2019 domestic policy package.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Thursday morning he had the votes to pass Republicans\u2019 domestic policy megabill and would lose only \u201cone or two\u201d GOP lawmakers ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline. \u201cWe&#8217;ll get this. We&#8217;ll land this plane before July 4,\u201d he told reporters. GOP leaders are barreling toward a final passage vote on [&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-10931","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\/10931","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=10931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}