House Speaker Mike Johnson is promoting key provisions in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” asserting that it fulfills Republicans’ campaign promises to prioritize American interests.
House GOP leadership has vigorously defended the House-approved version of the president’s expansive tax and spending package, highlighting its historic investments in border security and the largest mandatory spending cuts ever included in a budget bill.
The landmark legislation is now under review in the Senate, with Republicans racing to pass the budget and send it to the White House for the president’s signature by the July 4 deadline, reports said.
“President Trump and Congressional Republicans promised to put Americans first, and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers,” Johnson told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive statement. “It’s been decades since Congress has crafted a piece of legislation that includes so many significant wins for the American people.”
“There are historic investments in border security and mass deportations, tax incentives to build, buy, and sell in America, and provisions to ensure illegals can’t receive taxpayer benefits,” Johnson added. “This bill has something for every American — and nothing for illegal aliens or foreign governments who have ripped off the American taxpayer for far too long.”
The House-passed One, Big Beautiful Bill Act strengthens border security by allocating $150 billion toward immigration enforcement and accelerating the president’s deportation agenda. This funding package includes resources to hire up to 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 5,000 new Office of Field Operations customs officers, according to details provided to the Daily Caller by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s office.
Paul Perez, president of the National Border Patrol Council—the union representing rank-and-file Border Patrol agents—previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the legislation represents a “once in a generation investment” in border security.
The president’s landmark bill supports deportation efforts by funding the hiring of approximately 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and Homeland Security criminal investigators, according to the bill’s immigration provisions.
Additionally, the bill allocates about $12 billion in reimbursements to border states that have borne the costs of their own security efforts amid former President Joe Biden’s failure to control the surge of illegal immigration. Members of the House Republican Texas delegation, including Rep. August Pfluger, advocated for the inclusion of these border state reimbursements. The Senate’s version of the bill goes further, increasing the reimbursement funding to $13.5 billion following the efforts of Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn.
Senate Republicans are targeting passage of the president’s budget bill in the Senate by the end of next week. Following Senate approval, the House is expected to vote on the package again before sending the legislation to President Trump for his signature.
