Mike Johnson’s Reconciliation Message to Holdouts: ‘Welcome to Congress’

Speaker Mike Johnson admitted he doesn’t like what the Senate did to the reconciliation bill. He still wants his members to suck it up and vote “yes.”

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Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol. Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP

When the House takes up President Donald Trump’s marquee reconciliation bill on Wednesday, it will be quite a different measure from the one House Republicans passed less than six weeks ago.

Speaker Mike Johnson wants potential defectors to suck it up and vote for the legislation anyway.

When asked about moderates and conservatives trashing the bill, Johnson wasn’t sympathetic to their concerns.