“The Senate’s Plan B is in place. Now it’s up to Speaker Mike Johnson to deliver on Plan A — the ‘one big, beautiful bill’ he’s been promising for weeks,” Politico reports.
“It amounts to a key inflection point for President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda, and GOP senators — who muscled through their own two-bill legislative blueprint early Friday morning — are eagerly watching to see if Johnson can finally unify his fractious conference and move forward with his own plan.
”Playbook: “The sticking points: Moderates and front-line Republicans have opposed major cuts to Medicaid and the social safety net — $2 trillion over a decade — which the party wants to partially offset its other priorities’ deficit impact. Town halls with angry members of the public back home during last week’s recess may have amped up those concerns.”