Speaker Johnson informs House GOP that Trump wants to pass only one reconciliation package

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday told the House GOP that President-elect Donald Trump wants a single reconciliation package, pushing back against the two-bill plan that other Republican lawmakers are seeking.

Johnson said this during a private meeting on Capitol Hill, sources told Just the News.

Trump referred to the single reconciliation bill as “one big beautiful bill," according to The Hill.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus are pushing for a two-bill plan. 

“There are a group of us who support breaking it up into two pieces,” Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told Fox News during an interview. “The first piece, a very small border piece where we give the president the money that he needs to secure our southern border and start deporting illegal, criminal aliens.”

He said that a two-bill plan would be the fastest way for Trump to get funds for his plans for the southern border.

“The president needs some funds now and that’s the quickest way to do it, and that’s the way, again, a group of us think we should do that,” Harris stated. “Saving the large, big, beautiful bill till the summer because it will take time to iron out.”

Jason Smith, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, has been adamant that it should be one bill only, citing the slim margin held by the GOP in the House. 

“There have not been two reconciliations that have been signed into law in the same year,” Smith said last month. “And why would we think in a majority of 219 to 215 that we would over perform?”