Mike Johnson touts 'beauty of unified government' after Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' sails through Congress

House Speaker Mike Johnson R-La touted the close coordination between Congress and President Donald Trump to successfully pass the one big beautiful bill saying the collaboration is part of the beauty of unified ruling body Congress officially passed Trump s multitrillion-dollar bill Thursday afternoon after back-to-back sleepless sessions for both the House and Senate The massive agenda package now goes to Trump s desk to be signed into law just in time for Republicans self-imposed Fourth of July deadline The big beautiful bill s passage marks the first major piece of rule passed under the Trump administration and the first to pass while Republicans have control of the executive branch and both chambers of Congress TAX CUTS WORK REQUIREMENTS AND ASYLUM FEES HERE'S WHAT'S INSIDE THE SENATE'S VERSION OF TRUMP'S BILLSpeaking with reporters after the mega-spending bill s passage Thursday Johnson declared The beauty of unified executive is this is exactly how it can work How it's supposed to work is that you have an interaction between the executive and the legislative branches because that's what's best for the people and that coordination is going to yield great results for the folks DEMOCRATS FRUSTRATED OVER LACK OF A HEADS-UP FROM HAKEEM JEFFRIES ON DELAYING TRUMP S SPENDING BILLThe speaker disclosed people inside the Trump administration including Cabinet secretaries the vice president and the president were all willing to take questions from members of Congress President Trump was so generous with his time answering questions himself Vice President JD Vance was directly engaged We had Cabinet secretaries at a number of different federal agencies answering questions from members Various of them even brought their agency attorneys in to get really deep in the weeds on the details declared Johnson We had a tough four years before this last poll cycle the speaker added We knew that if we got unified establishment we'd have to quite literally fix every area of masses strategy Everything was an absolute mishap under the Biden-Harris radical woke Progressive Democrat regime LONE REPUBLICANS VOTE AGAINST TRUMP'S 'BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL' AS IT HEADS TO PRESIDENT'S DESKThe bill which advances Trump s policies on taxes the perimeter defense ability and the national debt narrowly passed the House of Representatives in a mostly party-line vote All but two Republicans Reps Thomas Massie R-Ky and Brian Fitzpatrick R-Pa voted for the bill which passed - It s a commanding conquest for Johnson and for the president both of whom spent hours overnight trying to persuade GOP critics of the bill Speaking after the bill s passage Johnson explained his role in getting GOP holdouts to switch their vote to yes saying My leadership style is I try to be a servant leader He reported that because various members desired to take time to go really deep in the weeds on changes the Senate made to the bill he felt it was his job as speaker to give each member the time to have their concerns addressed I knew as the leader that we would have to take the time to do that he explained And so selected of that went late into the night and I was not going to make anybody I was not going to demand anybody's vote or their position on the bill until they felt that they had exhausted that opportunity So we did it And that's how we got everybody to yes