{"id":6027,"date":"2025-02-11T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-leaders-bullish-on-budget-markup\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:15:16","slug":"house-leaders-bullish-on-budget-markup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-leaders-bullish-on-budget-markup\/","title":{"rendered":"House leaders bullish on budget markup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>GOP leaders struck an optimistic note Tuesday morning about their latest budget plan following a series of delays amid internal fighting \u2014 indicating it could get taken up in committee as soon as Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said in a brief interview that he had \u201cvery productive\u201d conversations Monday night about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/10\/house-budget-mike-johnson-jodey-arrington-00002375\" target=\"_blank\">new fiscal blueprint he has been circulating<\/a> among key GOP factions. That plan \u2014 which would tee up a massive GOP-only tax, border and energy bill \u2014 would increase spending cuts but also leave less room for President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tax policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very optimistic,\u201d Johnson said as he entered a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson and GOP leaders are still waiting for final Budget Committee feedback, and inside the meeting, panel Chair Jodey Arrington told members \u201cwe\u2019re so close\u201d on a final budget blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Johnson didn\u2019t share his plans before the Tuesday morning meeting with a wider group of hard-liners, according to two people familiar with the plans. Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a brief interview earlier Tuesday morning that Arrington \u201cis talking to his members to continue to get there\u201d about the new plan and cited &#8220;good progress&#8221; on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Arrington told reporters Tuesday morning that his panel would mark up the new plan this week. \u201cBut i can\u2019t tell you if it\u2019s Thursday or Friday,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Arrington\u2019s comments about a Thursday markup, Johnson said, \u201cThat\u2019s the plan,\u201d in a brief interview leaving the meeting. He said he was planning to meet with Budget Committee members later Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP leaders struck an optimistic note Tuesday morning about their latest budget plan following a series of delays amid internal fighting \u2014 indicating it could get taken up in committee as soon as Thursday. Speaker Mike Johnson said in a brief interview that he had \u201cvery productive\u201d conversations Monday night about the new fiscal blueprint [&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-6027","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\/6027","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=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}