Republicans leave Florida frustrated with lack of final plan to pass Trump agenda
(The Hill) Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) arrived at this week’s House Republican retreat with hopes of uniting the fractious GOP conference around a plan to pass President Trump’s agenda — but instead, the group is departing south Florida with rising tensions in its ranks.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a frequent critic of GOP leadership, wrote on social platform X early Wednesday morning that House Republicans “still do not have a plan on budget reconciliation and our Speaker and his team have not offered one,” urging top lawmakers to “just get started doing something.”
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who has expressed disapproval of Johnson’s leadership in the past, skipped the retreat altogether, announcing that he opted spend time with family and constituents in Texas “rather than spending $2K to hear more excuses for increasing deficits & not being in DC to deliver Trump’s border security $ ASAP.”
And the House Freedom Caucus, comprised of roughly three dozen hard-line conservatives, issued a call for “rudderless” Republicans to back their reconciliation proposal, which includes two bills — the opposite of Johnson’s single-measure track — and calls for a two year debt limit hike and deep spending cuts.
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