‘All of Us Have To Give Up on Our Personal Preferences’ for Trump’s Bill: Speaker Johnson Urges GOP Holdouts To Get in Line

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) urged the handful of Republican holdouts who are hemming and hawing over a massive spending bill to toe the party line and vote for it.

The House is currently mulling legislation passed by the Senate and backed by President Donald Trump. The bill would extend the 2017 tax cuts, slash Medicaid by $1 trillion, add $150 billion to the Pentagon budget, and increase funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement from $10 billion to more than $100 billion, among other major provisions.

Some members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus have suggested they will not vote for the bill because according to the Congressional Budget Office, it would  add $3.3 trillion to the nation’s deficits over the next 10 years.

At the Capitol on Wednesday, an exasperated Johnson implored his Republican colleagues to get behind the bill.

“We can’t make everyone 100% happy,” he told reporters. “It’s impossible. This is a deliberative body. It’s a legislative process, by definition. All of us have to give up on our personal preferences. I’m never gonna ask anybody to compromise core principles, but preferences must be yielded for the greater good. And that’s what I think people are recognizing and coming to grips with.”

Republicans can only afford three defectors. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has already said he will vote against the bill.

Democrats in the House and Senate uniformly oppose it. During a floor speech on Wednesday, Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY) railed against legislation as being harmful to everyday Americans.

“Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class,” Riley said.

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