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Trump's Johnson Is Shriveling - Crooks and Liars
Maybe it’s performance anxiety ahead of Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) Memorial Day deadline, but whatever the reason, the “big, beautiful bill” that Pres. Donald Trump promised to fuck us with keeps getting smaller.
Trump’s package shrank significantly yesterday, even though he’s got a whole Johnson helping out. Johnson told House Republicans yesterday that tax cuts for pleasuring the rich will only hit $4 trillion, not the sweet spot of $4.5 trillion they had promised.
That’s because Republicans weren’t able to find $2 trillion in cuts that all the House Republicans would agree to. So now they’re looking at the $1.5 trillion in cuts they promised/threatened a month ago.
And Politico reports the GOP is still “scrambling” to hit that lower number. On one side, Johnson has “moderates” (meaning: vulnerable) Republicans terrified about the effects of impoverishing their constituents — not hunger and sickness, obvi, but their re-elections — and on the other side he’s got the far right who want the American government to go away entirely.
Johnson lost two votes on the broad-strokes funding resolution last month — Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) — because $1.5 trillion wasn’t enough cutting. And broad strokes alone can’t get Johnson up to the vote count he needs.
Trump’s package shrank significantly yesterday, even though he’s got a whole Johnson helping out. Johnson told House Republicans yesterday that tax cuts for pleasuring the rich will only hit $4 trillion, not the sweet spot of $4.5 trillion they had promised.
That’s because Republicans weren’t able to find $2 trillion in cuts that all the House Republicans would agree to. So now they’re looking at the $1.5 trillion in cuts they promised/threatened a month ago.
And Politico reports the GOP is still “scrambling” to hit that lower number. On one side, Johnson has “moderates” (meaning: vulnerable) Republicans terrified about the effects of impoverishing their constituents — not hunger and sickness, obvi, but their re-elections — and on the other side he’s got the far right who want the American government to go away entirely.
Johnson lost two votes on the broad-strokes funding resolution last month — Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) — because $1.5 trillion wasn’t enough cutting. And broad strokes alone can’t get Johnson up to the vote count he needs.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/trumps-johnson-shriveling