Since winning his congressional election and subsequent Speakership title, Johnson has been treading a fine line throughout the process of budget talks as the House holds a razor-

House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing to power forward on a key budget committee vote early next week, setting up a clash with Senate GOP leaders who are itching to move a separate blueprint with their own strategy on how to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Speaker Mike Johnson asserted that he doesn’t plan to be a “yes man” for Donald Trump on Tuesday—but declined to go into specifics on what, exactly, he disagrees with the president on. Johnson, so far a staunch ally of Trump’s,