"Thankful" is an understatement for anyone who's been closely monitoring the voyage of President Trump's reconciliation legislation, known variously as the Act, the recission bill, and the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), to Trump's desk in the Oval Office. And we all know which one the 47th President of the United States prefers.
As readers might have read, RedState's Bob Hoge shared the joyous news throughout the fruited plain earlier on Thursday.
House Speaker Mike Johnson also gave people a chance to catch their breath (and enjoy a spoonful of Louisiana humor) after Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' extended rant, but before the House voted to pass the Senate bill.
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The question that's still floating out there -- how Pres. Trump swung the conservatives to vote for his OBBB -- now has an answer.
Tennessee Republican representative Tim Burchett might rival Senator John Kennedy, his Louisiana colleague in the upper chamber, for the most gentle but firm (and sometimes funny) style in fighting for conservatism in Washington, D.C.
That sensibility was on display all day on Wednesday, when at one point he and several other reps were summoned to the White House. Here's how he described it to constituents on his X account, in his ultra-gracious way:
As he said half-jokingly, either they were going to have a pleasant talk or get taken "behind the woodshed."
And here he was after the meeting with Pres. Trump.
On Thursday, after the House passed the bill, both House Freedom Caucus member, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Burchett talked about what they heard from the president that left conservatives so elated after that WH meet-up.
“What he’s going to do is use his powers as chief executive to make sure that the companies that apply for solar credits, as an example, he’s going to make sure that they’re doing what they say when they say they’ve started construction,” Norman told CNBC. "He’s going to make sure they’ve done that.”
Here's more of the background on what conservatives found objectionable in the Senate's bill:
Norman, who voted to proceed to a final vote on the measure, said that Trump gave assurances that changes were going to be made, “particularly with getting permits,” although he did not provide further details. And while the president can’t remove the subsidies, Trump’s pledge on enforcement of the changes helped win support from conservatives.
“They wanted to put when construction began [as] when the time frame would extend from, like the wind and solar. We wanted date of service, which means they can’t take a backhoe out there and dig a ditch and say that’s construction,” he said. “So things like that the president is going to enforce.”
Burchett called it "huge," that President Trump acknowledged what he and others were "concern[ed] about" in that part of the bill the Senate handed back, saying he believed the White House will hold green energy companies to their construction start dates so no one gets taxpayers' dollars who isn't eligible for them.
As Burchett shared later on in the evening, he wasn't done enjoying the day - he had CNN for "supper."
This is the way. Don't change, Rep. Burchett.
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