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Posted on 07/14/2026 2:50:37 PM PDT by Twotone
Republicans returned to Washington on Monday night in an increasingly dour mood about the state of their party: Growing fears of a November wipeout. A Middle East war with no end in sight. A feeling of loss after the sudden death of their longtime colleague Lindsey Graham.
Now, with President Donald Trump’s attention focused on Capitol Hill for what could be the party’s final legislative sprint before the midterms, a restless House Speaker Mike Johnson is racing to reverse Republicans’ political fortunes.
Johnson is privately pushing a major legislative push centered on Pentagon funding, cutting government fraud and a new grant program to promote elections overhaul, according to multiple people briefed on his plans. Details are scarce, but the bill — dubbed Trump’s agenda 3.0 — is an eleventh-hour attempt to unite the party’s warring factions after months of chaos. If he succeeds, it could rescue a flailing Hill GOP and offer lawmakers a fresh political win ahead of their August recess campaigning.
“This really is the last opportunity,” said Rep. August Pfluger of Texas, who has spent months pushing for a third Trump agenda bill. “I think the Republican voters that gave a mandate to President Trump want to see us continue to work to our very last breath of this session.”
There’s plenty of skepticism in the GOP’s ranks, with many members recalling the difficulty of passing the first two agenda bills, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and an immigration funding package. Johnson’s counterpart, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, did not endorse the effort when asked about the speaker’s plans. And he offered a note of caution to his House colleagues, warning that they need to consider the Senate’s own limitations — or risk a massive failure on the floor.
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So what exactly have these people been doing for the last year and a half?
I worry about the Senate. I don’t think Thune wants to do a damn thing.
“Cable News Network” my eye. This isn’t news at all; it’s a drive-by hit piece laden with opinion and agenda.
Yeah. He’s a real pile of human garbage.
He thinks more Pentagon spending will pacify the “anxious GOP crowd”? That thinking is a few decades old. He needs to be thinking “balanced budget”.
“A feeling of loss after the sudden death of their longtime colleague...”
Hey CNN, it’s not a loss unless you love RINOs and a do-nothing senate.
I don’t like that. They always front load the spending increases then talk about more revenue i.e. taxes to “ balance” the budget.
Every single time. It’s a ruse.
We’re past “balanced budget.” It’s time to eliminate HALF of the federal government. At least!
CNN returned to Washington on Monday night in an increasingly dour mood about the state of their Network: Growing fears of an audience wipe out. A lack of advertisers with no end in sight.
Yeah in reality it is already too late for the USA fiscally...the annual budget deficit already about matches the federal “discretionary spending” figure...cut 100% of discretionary (including 100% of the Pentagon budget) and you are still in the red. Especially with interest on the existing national debt now exceeding $1 Trillion annually and rising.
As “TwoTone” mentioned you would have to almost “halve” the federal bureaucracy to get out of the red and bring down the national debt...not going to happen.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61950
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-deficit/#us-deficit-by-year
Johnson’s a good enough speaker. You’d prefer McCarthy? What about Boner or that guy from Wisconsin-what’s his name-Paul?
He (Johnson) is OK...(McCarthy was “local” to FR land, so not as hated around here). Johnson is backed into a corner fiscally, about all he can offer is “positive sounding platitudes/porposals” to calm “anxious GOP’ers”...not actual “fixes”.
Its funny that its the RATS that are truly scared.
CNN would never report that.
The democrats are doomed. Nice try cnn.
Let’s see: congress critters just got back from 2 weeks vacay for the 4th….. them work for 2 weeks before the August break which should carry thru Labor Day
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