Trump's Latest Big Idea Will Sink Republicans

According to Speaker Mike Johnson, Trump wants all of his legislative put into one bill to passed all at once. This will be a disaster.

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Mike Johnson Unveils Trump’s Big (Dumb) Idea

Over the last decade, Donald Trump has repeatedly confirmed that he knows nothing about governing. He has also proven that he has no interest in governing, so the United States is about to find out what will happen when one of the most governing inept presidents in history decides that he has an idea and no one in his party is brave enough to say no.

Mike Johnson explained what Trump wants to do on Fox News:

 The idea would be get something done on the border and maybe defense spending right out of the blocks very quickly and what we would call a skinny reconciliation bill and then do other things. The rest of it in a larger chunk later, but I think 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. That doesn't mean that we won't come right out of the gates.

You know, full fledged, right out of the beginning of the Congress, and so we'll be addressing border. We've got a number of bills just over the next two weeks, Maria, that we're going to address the low hanging fruit, so to speak. I think that there's some things that are so common sense that we've got to fix on the border.

We might even be able to get some Democrat votes on some of that legislation, but we'll pass it out of the House and send it over to the Senate and get it ready for when President Trump takes office on January 20th. We have a lot to do and a short amount of time to do it in.

House Republicans will have a 217-215 majority and, after special elections, will have a 219-215 majority.

One Big Beautiful Train Wreck

This is an even smaller House majority than the one that couldn’t agree on a bill to fund the government before Christmas and needed Democratic help to get it done.