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Fox News
03-07-2025
- Business
- Fox News
Mike Johnson touts 'beauty of unified government' after Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' sails through Congress
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., touted the close coordination between Congress and President Donald Trump to successfully pass the "one big, beautiful bill," saying the collaboration is part of the "beauty of unified government." Congress officially passed Trump's multitrillion-dollar bill Thursday afternoon after back-to-back sleepless sessions for both the House and Senate. The massive agenda package now goes to Trump's desk to be signed into law just in time for Republicans' self-imposed Fourth of July deadline. The "big, beautiful bill's" passage marks the first major piece of legislation passed under the Trump administration and the first to pass while Republicans have control of the executive branch and both chambers of Congress. Speaking with reporters after the mega-spending bill's passage Thursday, Johnson said, "The beauty of unified government is this is exactly how it can work. "How it's supposed to work is that you have an interaction between the executive and the legislative branches, because that's what's best for the people, and that coordination is going to yield great results for the folks." The speaker said people inside the Trump administration, including Cabinet secretaries, the vice president and the president, were all willing to take questions from members of Congress. "President Trump was so generous with his time answering questions himself. Vice President JD Vance was directly engaged. We had Cabinet secretaries at a number of different federal agencies answering questions from members. Some of them even brought their agency attorneys in to get really deep in the weeds on the details," said Johnson. "We had a tough four years before this last election cycle," the speaker added. "We knew that if we got unified government, we'd have to quite literally fix every area of public policy. Everything was an absolute disaster under the Biden-Harris radical woke Progressive Democrat regime." The bill, which advances Trump's policies on taxes, the border, defense, energy and the national debt, narrowly passed the House of Representatives in a mostly party-line vote. All but two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., voted for the bill, which passed 218-214. It's a commanding victory for Johnson and for the president, both of whom spent hours overnight trying to persuade GOP critics of the bill. Speaking after the bill's passage, Johnson explained his role in getting GOP holdouts to switch their vote to "yes," saying, "My leadership style is I try to be a servant leader." He said that because many members wanted to take time to "go really deep in the weeds" on changes the Senate made to the bill, he felt it was his job as speaker to give each member the time to have their concerns addressed. "I knew as the leader that we would have to take the time to do that," he explained. "And, so, some of that went late into the night, and I was not going to make anybody — I was not going to demand anybody's vote or their position on the bill until they felt that they had exhausted that opportunity. So, we did it. And that's how we got everybody to 'yes.'"
Washington Post
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
You asked: Can a Cabinet secretary be impeached?
Can Cabinet secretaries be impeached? Or is firing by the president the only way for them to be removed? Yes, a Cabinet secretary can be impeached. As you may recall, Republicans pursued impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden's homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. They claimed he was failing in his duty to protect the border. Democrats said that the charges were ginned up and that this was simply a way for the GOP to make a political point about immigration.
Japan Times
22-05-2025
- Business
- Japan Times
Philippines' Marcos asks Cabinet secretaries to resign in government reset
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has asked all Cabinet secretaries to submit their resignations, a move his office described on Thursday as a "bold reset" that will enable him to overhaul his government to better meet public expectations. The sweeping directive comes just over a week after a disappointing midterm election for the administration, widely seen as a referendum on Marcos' leadership. "This is not about personalities — it's about performance, alignment, and urgency," Marcos said in a statement issued by the Presidential Communications Office. "Those who have delivered and continue to deliver will be recognized. But we cannot afford to be complacent. The time for comfort zones is over." Marcos failed to secure a sweep of Senate seats for his allies, signalling a divided legislative landscape heading into the second half of his single six-year term. Candidates aligned with his estranged vice president, Sara Duterte, outperformed expectations in what many viewed as a proxy battle between the two camps. "This is not business as usual," Marcos said. "The people have spoken, and they expect results — not politics, not excuses. We hear them, and we will act," he said. Marcos has faced a steep decline in public support, according to a March survey by Pulse Asia, with only 25% of Filipinos approving of his performance, down from 42% previously. In stark contrast, Duterte enjoyed a significantly higher approval rating of 59%. Sentiment toward the government has soured due in part to a perceived failure to control inflation, a top concern of Filipino households, even though it has been back within the central bank's 2% to 4% target range since August.
