House Speaker Mike Johnson says chamber is 'on track' to pass Trump's budget bill by Memorial Day

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he is confident Republicans will meet their self-imposed Memorial Day deadline for passing President Trump’s “big beautiful” bill through the lower chamber.

The House Budget Committee was slated to reconvene Sunday night to try again to pass the GOP’s tax and spending package after fiscal hawks rejected the plan Friday.

“This is the vehicle through which we will deliver on the mandate that the American people gave us in the last election,” Mr. Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “You are going to have historic savings for the American people, historic tax relief for American workers, historic investments in border security at the same time that we are restoring American energy dominance.”

“And we are rebuilding the defense industrial base and we are ensuring programs like Medicaid and SNAP are strengthened for the US citizens who need and deserve them — and not being squandered away by illegal aliens and persons who are ineligible to receive them and are cheating the system,” he said.

The bill would extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts. It also delivers on Mr. Trump’s pledge to end taxes on tips and Social Security benefits, and includes cuts to entitlements and food assistance programs.

Democrats oppose the bill, leaving Republicans with little wiggle room in negotiations.

Republicans are looking to impose work requirements on recipients of Medicaid, the health insurance program serving tens of millions of low-income Americans.

The bill has faced opposition from budget hawks who are concerned that the savings from the bill are based on phony math and gimmicks.

Mr. Trump is demanding the Republican holdouts, who sunk the bill last week in the budget committee, fall in line.

“Republicans MUST UNITE behind, ‘THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!’” Mr. Trump posted Friday on Truth Social. “Not only does it cut Taxes for ALL Americans, but it will kick millions of Illegal Aliens off of Medicaid to PROTECT it for those who are the ones in real need.”

“We don’t need ‘GRANDSTANDERS’ in the Republican Party,” he posted. “STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE! It is time to fix the MESS that Biden and the Democrats gave us.”

On Sunday, Mr. Johnson said the legislation amounts to the “largest spending reduction in at least three decades — probably longer.”

“We are on track, working around the clock to deliver this nation-shaping legislation for the American people as soon as possible,” he said.