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  • 7/3/2025
At a press briefing on Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was asked what concessions he made to holdouts of the Big Beautiful bill.
Transcript
00:00Obviously you talked about the legislative process, you made a joke on the floor about how the White House Legislatives do practically live here in the Capitol.
00:11Talk to me a little bit about how you got these members to get, what concessions were made, you know it wasn't she was in the Senate bill, but it was perhaps maybe promised through executive orders or future legislation, what are we looking at?
00:24No, I mean, look, as I said, a lot of these members wanted to talk with the administration about how the new law would be administered by the Trump administration and the team, and I think they answered those questions.
00:35I don't think they exacted a lot of specific commitments or concessions or anything like that.
00:40It was just more an understanding how that would interact.
00:43As you know, this president has been a bold leader.
00:47By last count, he's issued over maybe close to 160 executive orders so far.
00:52We're trying to codify as many of those as possible, so a lot of the discussions were about what executive orders will be forthcoming as it relates to the new legislation and how can we be involved as a House to codify that and do all that in a coordinated fashion.
01:05The beauty of unified government is this is exactly how it can work and 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.
01:18So that was part of the discussion yesterday.

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