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Deacon Mike Hits a Big Beautiful Wall

Reconciliation teeters in the balance

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Ben Domenech
May 16, 2025
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Punchbowl News:

This is what happens when you leave huge decisions on reshaping huge swaths of the federal government to the last minute.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s House Republican Conference is in the midst of a low-grade rebellion against the GOP’s reconciliation proposal.

And since Johnson fought to put the entirety of President Donald Trump’s agenda into …

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