President-elect Donald Trump has called on Republican lawmakers to pass “one powerful bill” to advance his policies on border security and tax cuts as he prepares to return for a second term.
In a social media post on Sunday, Trump said members of Congress will work on a single bill that is packed with policy items aimed at making America “greater than ever before.”
“We must Secure our Border, Unleash American Energy, and Renew the Trump Tax Cuts, which were the largest in History, but we will make it even better – NO TAX ON TIPS,” the president-elect stated.
Trump suggested that he plans to offset the taxes by imposing tariffs on imports from countries that “have taken advantage of the U.S. for years.”
“Republicans must unite, and quickly deliver these Historic Victories for the American People. Get smart, tough, and send the Bill to my desk to sign as soon as possible,” he stated.
His remarks came after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) unveiled a plan to pass Trump’s legislative policies through a reconciliation bill, which would enable the policies to be passed with a simple majority, bypassing the Senate’s 60-vote threshold.
Johnson told Fox News that the vote on the reconciliation bill could happen as early as April 3, and then move to the Senate. He said the bill could be delivered to Trump’s desk for signature by the end of April.
“We’re 15 days out from the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump for his second term. And we want to make sure that we’re jump-starting the agenda now over the next two weeks, so that he’s prepared and ready on day one,” Johnson told the news outlet. “At the end of the day, President Trump is going to prefer, as he likes to say, one big, beautiful bill. And there’s a lot of merit to that, because we can put it all together, one big up-or-down vote, which can save the country, quite literally, because there are so many elements to it. And it’ll give us a little bit more time to negotiate that and get it right.”
Johnson said that the reconciliation bill would address Trump’s priorities, such as the economy, border security, tax cuts, energy, and incentivizing U.S. companies to manufacture domestically.
GOP Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on the Senate floor in December that a reconciliation package “with a once-in-a-generation investment in border security and immigration enforcement” would be passed within the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
Thune said the GOP also planned to use the Congressional Review Act to “undo some of the Biden administration regulations that are weighing down our economy” and pass another reconciliation package to expand the tax relief provided to Americans during Trump’s first administration.
“We must Secure our Border, Unleash American Energy, and Renew the Trump Tax Cuts, which were the largest in History, but we will make it even better – NO TAX ON TIPS,” the president-elect stated.
And undo the damage Brandon and his radicals did to this country.
The patriots, the sane, the honest and the rational have learned that the treasonous Democrat Party, their “useful idiot” and their propaganda/news media just want to destroy our country in any way they can and these demonic Democrats will not stop trying to destroy our citizens and our country.
Thank God that our citizens are waking up from the Democrat Party’s destructive agenda and elected Donald Trump as President! 🙂 🙂 🙂
And they have done considerable damage. I can’t think of any larger a problem than trying to get millions of illegals deported. Cutting pork barrel expenses is hard enough but are the usual problem of a sane administration to solve. The illegals situation is a brand new nightmare left in the road like miles of horse poop that has to be cleaned up.
That is why i am AGAINST one ‘massive bill”. As we’ve seen before, that is where the dems sneak in all their PORK.
As one who has seen the democrats use of “Big Bills’ that hide the Big Lies of the misappropriated monies within,,, my first instinct is to insist every item being voted upon be based on it’s own merits and own individual bill. The reality is however that the Democrats have done such great damage to this government in 4 years of deceptive Big Bills that it seems that only a RIGHTEOUS Big Bill of our own can correct the oncoming crash of the American Government Titanic ship of state that the Democrats aimed at the oncoming Iceberg of financial and moral disaster. Like the Titanic they thought that their
government/Party was too big and too well engineered to sink, and also like the Titanic they only created enough lifeboats only for the elite and the members of their own party should the worst election loss or ship crash actually occur. Rest assured that when it does it won’t be their women, children and blacks that are saved first,,,,just the female crossdressing men who sneak on the limited lifeboats to save their own miserable hides and careers. Biden will try to take as many of his opponents down with him last minute as they go, and save in lifeboats full of pardons those who should have been men enough, and strong enough to go down with their ships like true Captains of commerce and government they are NOT!