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Inside Congress Live: Transition of Power

Jan. 14, 2025, in Washington. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

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Johnson wants budget blueprint passed by Feb. 27

The speaker laid out an ambitious six-week timeline to his colleagues.

Meredith Lee Hill

01/14/2025, 10:54am ET

Speaker Mike Johnson set out a six-week timeline Tuesday for passing a budget blueprint — a necessary first step in getting President-elect Donald Trump's sprawling domestic agenda through Congress.

Under the timeline Johnson set out, the House would need to coalesce around a strategy and write a budget resolution by Feb. 10, setting 
up floor debate and adoption that week. The Senate would then debate the measure and adopt it the following week. The timeline was described by two Republicans familiar with Johnson's plans.
Johnson told Republicans he would like the blueprint wrapped up before the House GOP retreat that’s slated to start Feb. 27, according to the two Republicans. But he acknowledged the House may need to come back after their retreat to address any changes from the Senate.
It will be a major challenge to meet that timeline, given the House and Senate are currently pursuing two different plans, both utilizing the party-line reconciliation process. Adoption of a budget resolution is a necessary first step in that process.
Johnson said in a closed-door House GOP Conference meeting that he had spoken earlier in the morning with Trump — who remains, he said, inclined to aim for one massive bill that spans border, energy and tax policy, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter.
House conservative hard-liners pushed Trump at Mar-a-Lago this weekend to embrace the two-track strategy preferred in the Senate, with little success.

Lead Art: House Speaker Mike Johnson confers with people in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 3, 2025. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

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Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said on Tuesday she believed individuals who committed violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, should not be pardoned by President-elect Donald Trump.

Britt was asked, during an interview at an event convened by POLITICO Playbook, her reaction to Vice President-elect JD Vance’s recent comments that individuals who committed violence “obviously … shouldn’t be pardoned.”

Britt said, “I agree with JD."Jordain Carney

01/14/2025, 11:13am ET