“Thankful” is an understatement for anyone who’s been closely monitoring the voyage of President Trump’s reconciliation legislation, known variously as the Act, the recission bill, and the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), to Trump’s desk in the Oval Office. And we all know which one the 47th President of the United States prefers.
As readers might have read, RedState’s Bob Hoge shared the joyous news throughout the fruited plain earlier on Thursday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson also gave people a chance to catch their breath (and enjoy a spoonful of Louisiana humor) after Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ extended rant, but before the House voted to pass the Senate bill.
The question that’s still floating out there — how Pres. Trump swung the conservatives to vote for his OBBB — now has an answer.
Tennessee Republican representative Tim Burchett might rival Senator John Kennedy, his Louisiana colleague in the upper chamber, for the most gentle but firm (and sometimes funny) style in fighting for conservatism in Washington, D.C.
That sensibility was on display all day on Wednesday, when at one point he and several other reps were summoned to the White House. Here’s how he described it to constituents on his X account, in his ultra-gracious way: