The Republican President of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said on Sunday that he expected a text bringing together a large number of key measures from Donald Trump’s program to be put to a vote in Congress at the beginning of April.
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The timetable, “impactful”, according to Mike Johnson, means that the text would then land “on the president’s desk before the end of April” for promulgation, he said during an interview with Fox News, “which would be fantastic”.
According to this Republican tenor, the bill would include proposals aimed at “securing the border” of the United States with Mexico and expelling “dangerous criminals” who have arrived in the United States.
Donald Trump once again focused his presidential campaign in 2024 on immigration and assured, after his victory in November, that he wanted to use the armed forces if necessary to carry out his plan to expel around 13 million migrants in situation irregular.
Mike Johnson assured Sunday that the text in Congress would include measures to “revitalize the American economy” – in particular with the extension of tax credits decided during Donald Trump’s first term and which will soon expire.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives further promised to include a provision for the debt ceiling.
«No [futur] President has asked and really needs us to resolve the debt limit crisis before it hits us in June,” he said.
The United States has the particularity of regularly coming up against a legal constraint concerning its credit capacity: the debt ceiling, or the maximum amount of debt which must be formally raised or suspended by Congress.
A suspension decided in 2023 expired at the beginning of January and the United States should reach the ceiling in June.
During budget negotiations in Congress in December, Donald Trump insisted that an increase, or even a total elimination of the debt ceiling, be included, but ultimately did not succeed.
Mike Johnson defended on Fox News the paradox according to which the desire to increase debt capacity would not be incompatible with that of reducing the public deficit.
“We are the ones who want to cut spending, and we are going to do it […]. But you have to raise the debt ceiling on paper, so as not to scare the bond markets and the global economy,” he said.
