26-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Congress Sleeps Through an Economic Wake-Up Call
Only two men will be able to look back with real satisfaction on the role they played in the passage last week of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the House's attempt at implementing most of President Trump's fiscal agenda.
The first is Speaker Mike Johnson, who again showed that there may be no more proficient cat-herder in the country. Leading a fractious Republican caucus that enjoys—if that's the word—a majority of a mere handful over a mostly united Democratic opposition, and under threat for more than 18 months that one false move would cost him his job, Mr. Johnson prevailed again. The speaker has compared himself to Moses, leading his harried tribe through the Red Sea. A better analogy might be Jason, repeatedly piloting his Argonauts between the Scylla of Trumpian disapproval and the Charybdis of popular distrust.
