House Speaker Mike Johnson will try against the odds to muscle a Republican budget blueprint to passage this week, a step toward delivering President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts over stiff opposition from Democrats — and even some Republicans.

9:06 a.m. EST, Feb. 26 Trump said the bill’s passage is a “Big First Step Win for Speaker Mike Johnson, and AMERICA” in a Truth Social post, calling on Congress to “start to BALANCE THE BUDGET,” while insisting “IT CAN BE DONE!!!”

House Speaker Mike Johnson fights for President Trump’s favor and his own political survival while budget talks heat up.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson drew a clear dividing line between himself and President Donald Trump as he claimed Russian President resident Vladimir Putin was “dangerous” and “not to be trusted.” In an interview with Dana Bash on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday,

Mike Johnson, the leader of the House of Representatives and a loyal ally of Donald Trump, has rejected accusations the president is too friendly toward Russia.