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I prefer, obviously, always prefer to move bills, individual bills, or at least bundled, packaged. But, you know, we're running out of time, and so we've got a short window to work with,
Thune said on Tuesday
I would say, at this point, all options are on the table,
he addedThere is by no means agreement on poison pills or new riders that have never been part of these end-of-the-year bills,
she saidIf Republicans don't want to govern, they just need to give us a couple votes and we'll put Hakeem Jeffries in the speaker chair,
he saidThey want to limit, tie the hands of the president on what he is able to do with the expenditures in the executive branch — that’s never been done before,
Johnson said Tuesday
I do not. But my focus is on getting an agreement on the money, on the funding.”
Asked whether she thinks it’s possible to strike a deal unless Democrats relent on their executive power demands, Collins told NBC News
If you appropriate the money — you agree in the House, you agree in the Senate, the president signs the legislation — how can you then decide that that’s not what it’s going to be? Now there are some in the administration that would like to do that, and we just want to be sure that what we’re doing, make sure that the dollars ... are going for the purposes intended,
DeLauro told NBC News
I don’t know. I’d have to go back and check.”
Asked whether Biden unilaterally withheld funds directed by Congress, as Trump is doing, Cole saidWe’re close on the numbers. We’re pretty far apart, still, on trying to limit presidential powers,
Cole told reportersThat is the absolute bare minimum, and it is frankly not asking a whole lot. Republicans should not be so eager to let Elon Musk cut off cancer research or clean energy jobs in their districts. They should not follow Elon towards a shutdown,
she addedWe have made some suggestions, and they have them,
she saidAnd it creates a whole new host of separation-of-powers questions anyway that could make the whole thing unconstitutional,
he saidThere’s not much middle ground there. You either have it or not,
he saidWe have a lot of hard work ahead of us, but we are going to deliver the American First agenda,
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after the vote
Trump helped us with a number of members,
Scalise told reportersThey’re closer to it, they’re more granular, they’ll understand and be able to really implement thematically what they’re trying to do with DOGE, ... but to avoid some of the unintended outcomes that they have to go back and reverse.”
Tillis said,
I can tell you, it has to be done,
Bean saidToday, House Republicans moved Congress closer to delivering on President Trump's full America First agenda — not just parts of it,
Johnson said in a statement after the measure passed
It's the best bill we're going to get,
Gill said while praising Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, for his efforts
Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste and abuse. Everybody knows that. We all know it intuitively. No one in here would disagree,
Johnson said