GOP House Speaker: ‘The First 100 Days Agenda Is Going to Be Very Aggressive’
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) warns that the Republican agenda for the first 100 days of the 119th Congress “is going to be very aggressive” because, in his words, “We have a lot to fix.”
Johnson’s remarks came during an interview with “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier on Fox News in which Baier questioned the Speaker on his prospects for success with a minimal majority headcount in the House.
The Speaker stated that getting the budget done as early as possible in January was a necessary part of working around the 60 vote threshold in the Senate by doing so through the budget reconciliation process which requires only 51 votes.
Currently the GOP holds only a bare bones majority in the Senate.
Congressional Republicans are determined to immediately start delivering for the American people next Congress.
Together with President Trump, we’ll secure our border, restore America’s energy dominance, prevent the largest tax hike in history, and dismantle the deep state. pic.twitter.com/2uoMrcDsHK
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) December 11, 2024
The Hill reports that Johnson explained that President-elect Donald Trump is coming into the White House “with a big mandate” and that the mandate extends to Republican lawmakers as well.
Among the top priorities that Johnson aims to address along with President Trump are securing the border, restoring energy dominance in America and preventing the largest tax hike in history while simultaneously dismantling the deep state.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) echoed Johnson’s commitment to border security, saying, that sort of bill should be, “the first order of business in the Senate Budget Committee.”
Johnson also stated that there will be changes in foreign aid with funding for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia no longer being tied to stop-gap spending bills to keep the U.S. government open.
The current Congress faces a December 20 deadline for a stop-gap bill to avoid a government shutdown.
KTAL News reports that Johnson said, “There are developments by the hour in Ukraine, I think, as we predicted, and as I said to all of you weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it will change that the dynamic of the Russia war on Ukraine, and we’re seeing that happen,” adding, “So it is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now we have a newly elected president, and we’re going to wait and take the new Commander in Chief’s direction on all of that. So I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up now.”