The GOP's Budget Progress / Trump vs. Feeble Shower Heads

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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House Speaker Mike Johnson narrowly passes a budget outline, letting the GOP begin writing its "one big beautiful bill." But now comes the hard part: agreeing on the details of tax cuts and spending reductions. Plus, Donald Trump signs an order to make America's showers great again, but will manufacturers seize the opportunity to sell fixtures with more nozzles and water flow? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.5	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:41.1	The House narrowly passes a budget outline for the Republicans, big, beautiful bill to cut taxes. And believe it or not, that was the
0:46.7	easy part. Meantime, President Trump signs an executive order to make showerheads great
0:52.5	again. But does this mean new bathroom fixtures soon coming
0:55.9	to a hardware store near you? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined
1:01.8	today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Kate Batchelder Odell.
1:08.3	After much debate and cajoling of GOP holdouts, the House voted 216 to 214 on Thursday
1:16.9	to advance a budget bill and begin the process of passing a reconciliation bill with 51 Senate votes,
1:25.4	given the disagreement in the Republican Party and the way that the dissenters
1:29.7	thought they might have Speaker Mike Johnson cornered. The journal's editorial today credits the
1:34.7	speaker with another Houdini straightjacket escape. Here he is, the man himself, Mike Johnson,
1:40.2	speaking to reporters on Thursday. The American people are counting on us.
1:45.2	Time is of the essence.
1:47.1	We know what's going on around the world.
1:51.5	We know that the debt limit cliff is approaching us pretty quickly here.
1:54.1	We know that markets have been a little unstable.
1:56.2	They want to know that Congress is on the job.
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