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Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), seat of the House Republican Policy Committee, connected Sunday defended Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for the hold successful unveiling a fund resolution.
In an interrogation connected NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday” with Chris Stirewalt, Hern said Johnson’s task is particularly difficult, noting the GOP tin suffer virtually nary votes successful the House, but said helium is optimistic that the league volition beryllium capable to determination guardant with a solution this week.
“When you person the smallest borderline successful the past 150 years successful Congress, we can't suffer a azygous vote. You deliberation astir that for a second, erstwhile you have, you know, the radical that correspond each corners of the country, Speaker Johnson has been moving precise hard done the play to get america wherever we tin announcement a fund markup this week truthful we tin determination guardant with 1 big, beauteous bill, arsenic President Trump would like,” Hern told Stirewalt.
Johnson, members of his enactment squad and an ideological cross-section of lawmakers huddled for hours connected Thursday with President Trump and Vice President Vance to sermon a model for advancing the president's legislative privation list. These see borderline funding, migration argumentation and an hold of the 2017 taxation cuts.
The marathon gathering came days aft Johnson was forced to scrap plans to people up an archetypal fund solution amid a blimpish revolt implicit the level of spending cuts. The impasse successful the House led apical Senate Republicans to denote they would determination their effort to enact Trump's agenda, threatening to steamroll the House.
Johnson reported "very affirmative developments" aft the White House gathering Thursday and sought to propulsion backmost connected the Senate GOP plans, insisting House Republicans were nearing the decorativeness line — adjacent though respective thorny issues remained.
Hern echoed that sentiment successful the Sunday interview.
“We cognize however hard it's going to be. We recognize what the Senate is trying to do, successful doing 2 bills truthful they determination quickly. I judge we're going to get the fund solution done truthful we tin commencement moving connected the policy,” Hern added.
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