Mercedes Schlapp, an American Conservative Union senior fellow, told Newsmax on Friday following the late-night passage of the stopgap funding bill, “this is a moment in time the Republicans need to unite.”
On Friday evening, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., managed to put together a bill that keeps the government open through March of 2025 yet now must face a Democrat-controlled Senate. Schlapp had sympathy for Johnson’s handling of the situation.
“I think if there would have been earlier talks directly between President Trump and Speaker Johnson on figuring out how best to handle this spending fight, we could have avoided a lot of the bad press that we've seen and this public infighting that we're seeing in the Republican Party,” she said during an appearance on “Rob Schmitt Tonight”
Matt Schlapp, chair of the Conservative Political Action Conference, joined the conversation and urged the Republicans to use their incoming majority in the Senate to “keep it a little simpler.”
“Maybe the lesson of the CR is that we ought to get one reconciliation done right. Take our time to do it right. Make sure it has as much of these Trump policies in it as possible and avoid the high jinks of trying to do the high wire act of doing multiple reconciliations,” he added.
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