With no further road to kick the can down, we’ve been on the lookout this week for how exactly President Trump will get involved with badgering the House Republican conference into line behind the ridiculously named piece of legislation that will kickstart his fiscal agenda. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has set an almost comically aggressive timeline for getting the bill passed in his chamber — Memorial Day — and, so, it’s been a question of when, not if, Trump surfaces in Congress.
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