Speaker Mike Johnson is facing an increasingly narrow path to pass President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda through the lower chamber where House Republicans currently hold a one-seat majority.
The House is scheduled to vote as early as Tuesday evening on a resolution that will unlock a forthcoming budget bill to pass the president’s first-year tax and spending priorities. Johnson faces a difficult balancing act to get centrist House Republicans and conservative fiscal hawks in agreement on the amount of proposed spending cuts within the resolution and which government programs to target for savings in a forthcoming budget bill.
