{"id":6111,"date":"2025-02-13T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-johnson-bullish-on-budget-blueprints-prospects\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:33:40","slug":"speaker-johnson-bullish-on-budget-blueprints-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-johnson-bullish-on-budget-blueprints-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson bullish on budget blueprint&#8217;s prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson says the House GOP budget resolution will advance out of the Budget Committee today with no Republican defections, despite protests from key hard-liners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect it to pass \u2014 unanimously,\u201d Johnson told reporters as he entered the Capitol Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of delays, the Budget panel is meeting later this morning to debate and vote on a budget blueprint necessary for unlocking the massive Trump agenda bill they\u2019re trying to pass this year along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal hawks like Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and others on the panel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/12\/congress\/conservatives-pan-house-budget-resolution-00203868\" target=\"_blank\">are still demanding<\/a> higher spending cuts, guarantees on work requirements for safety net programs and other additions they plan to raise during the Budget meeting today, which could stretch into the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Those Republicans plan to offer another amendment today they\u2019ve negotiated with GOP leaders. It would seek to strengthen a provision in the budget resolution that would reduce the available funding for tax cuts if Republicans don\u2019t hit $2 trillion in spending cuts. GOP leaders expect it to be adopted, Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the necessary first start to get it going,\u201d Johnson said this morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson says the House GOP budget resolution will advance out of the Budget Committee today with no Republican defections, despite protests from key hard-liners. \u201cI expect it to pass \u2014 unanimously,\u201d Johnson told reporters as he entered the Capitol Thursday. After weeks of delays, the Budget panel is meeting later this morning to [&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-6111","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\/6111","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=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}