Speaker Johnson on Tax Bill Slammed as Titanic: We‘re Doing the Best We Can with the Vote Numbers We Have

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JOHNSON: "Look, I love Ron Johnson. He‘s a dear friend. And he and I agree on our philosophy. We‘re limited government conservatives. We want to limit the size and scope of the government and make it work more efficiently and effectively. My my my response to him, and we‘ve spoken about this over recent months, is that we‘re doing the best we can with the vote numbers that we have. In other words, we‘ve got to turn this aircraft carrier. You don‘t turn an aircraft carrier on a dime. It takes a mile of open ocean to do it. And it took us decades to get in this financial situation. We can‘t just flip a switch and get out of it overnight. One of the people that that my friend Ron Johnson really respects is Russ Vought, who directs the office of management and budget. And russ is a big champion for this piece of legislation. He calls it historic, and he‘s a fiscal hawk, and so am I. so we‘re doing as much as we can. And I just encourage Ron to remember, you know, in our in the house, we have 220 Republicans, a wide range of perspectives and a wide range of districts represented. And I‘ve got to get to 217 votes to get this thing over the line. So as much as we can in as big increment as we can, I think we‘ve achieved that here. And I just want them to remember that we‘ve got to deal within the realm of what‘s possible."