House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Newsmax on Thursday the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that Congress sent to President Donald Trump to sign into law is “the most conservative legislation of our lifetime.”
The House passed the bill Thursday by a 218-214 vote, with just two Republicans – Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania – joining all Democrats in opposition. The vote occurred after a contentious two days of debate without any changes to the Senate’s amended version, which needed a tiebreaking vote by Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday to keep the bill afloat.
“It was dicey, honestly, along the way, but I never did take my eye off that prize,” Johnson told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty. “And I believed that this group could deliver this big agenda. The one, big, beautiful bill. I mean, really, this is about 90% of the America First agenda all lobbed into one giant piece of legislation. We wanted to go big. We wanted to go early. We did it, I think, in probably record time, certainly for a piece of legislation this large and comprehensive and complex.
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