Republican Congressional leaders are mapping out their legislative plan for the new year – and how it will accomplish Donald Trump’s plan for a sweeping border, tax and energy policy. White House Correspondent JON DECKER has been looking at the so-called “reconciliation package” and what we can expect from the new Congress. 01-07-25 YMS HR2 Jon Decker

Republican Congressional leaders are mapping out their legislative plan for the new year – and how it will accomplish Donald Trump’s plan for a sweeping border, tax and energy policy. White House Correspondent JON DECKER has been looking at the so-called “reconciliation package” and what we can expect from the new Congress.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael dil Choonha.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, Republican congressional leaders, they're mapping out their legislative plan.
They know why they were giving control of the House,
why they were given control of the Senate, and why
Donald Trump is headed back to the Oval Office. It
was a mandate election. They want that board and secured.
They want the tax cuts made permanent. They want energy policy.
It's going to bring down the cost of energy. Now,
how to do it? One big beautiful bill? Two bills,

(00:27):
three bills, four bills, a dollar all for the time.
John Decker on White House Correspondent to joining us. Well,
I guess the update this morning would be that Donald
Trump is open to potentially two bills.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah, that's right. He said that on a huge show yesterday.
And I think the reason why he said that is
because of what John Soon, who's the leader of the Senate,
has told President elect Donald Trump, which is it's going
to be difficult to move one big bill like what
Donald Trump envisions through the Senate. May may be able
to do it in the House, but you can't do
it in the Senate. And that means that the focus

(01:02):
initially would be on a bill taking care of border
security and energy, and then a second bill later this
year focusing on tax policy, extending those Trump tax cuts,
perhaps also including those Trump promises no taxes on tips,
no taxes on overtime contained in that bill, and.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Which would be the wisest to do first, that's another
thing they're going to have to probably decide or are
you pretty convinced that's the order they're going to go
in the order?

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, that's abset with the order. Taxes takes time, and
you have some deficit hops in the Senate in particular,
who say, okay, fine, you know, I like your idea,
but as it relates to no taxes on tips and
no taxes on overtime, but how do you pay for it?
You can't just eliminate a significant portion of federal income

(01:54):
from our budget. Where are you cutting? Where are you
cutting to pay for that? And so that is going
to be a problematic aspect as it relates to that
piece of legislation later this year, and.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
It would make more sense to allow DOGE to continue
to do its job and let that get up ramp.
When you start thinking of one big bill. What's problematic
is the more that's in there, the more descent there
can be, it's just harder to do. What's the last
You've been following this for a long time. I go
back to the Contract to America. Maybe. I mean, it's fun.
It would be nice if you could do it under
one big bill. But you know, these things grow in

(02:26):
pages and they grow in nonsense along with it and descent.
It's just I don't know that it's it's a political
reality anymore, is it.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, you know, when you have a majority in one
body of Congress, that's the House, you can do just
about anything you want. But you also keep in mind, Michael,
in the House, it's a very narrow majority. We saw
that just last week with the vote for speaker. So
you have one, two, three members that you know are
dissenting to something contained in one big bill that you

(02:57):
know makes it so difficult to move that bill forward.
So that is something that Mike Johnson, the House Speaker,
will have to contend with in those first one hundred days.
That's when you would like to see a border security
bill pass the House of Representatives. I think that will
be able to pass the House, you know, because of
that simple majority, And that is an issue that all
Republicans are on board.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
With closing moments with John Decker, White House correspondent, and
a Supreme Court bar attorney joins us to understand these issues.
So one big reconciliation package is looking like two and
isn't an important John for us. You know, Donald Trump
does get a second one hundred days, which is more
than most consecutive two term presidents get, but we've got

(03:39):
to be I think he needs to be reasonable in
the American people need to be reasonable about how much
he can get done in that short period of time
and breaking it in two. Securing the border and then
moving next to the economy, that's a pretty good first
one hundred days.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well, again, I don't think that the taxes will be
done in the first one hundred days. I think that's
the first year. Yeah, you can do the border the
first one hundred days, and certainly I think Donald Trump
first day in office is going to declare a national
emergency as it relates to border security. But you know,
the idea of passing all these things in the first year,
that's a great accomplishment. And if he can do that,

(04:14):
I think that there's much to celebrate for Donald Trump
that he that he'll be able to do that great reporting.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
As always, Thank you, John and bearing with my cost medicine.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Miss a little, miss a lot, and we'll miss you.
It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno.