GOP Split Tests Johnson as Reconciliation Package Advances

House Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing a narrow, party-line reconciliation bill—roughly $67B for defense, $20B for agriculture, and SAVE Act provisions—despite a GOP split over strategy and offsets; conservatives balk at no pay-fors on defense, while others want more transparency and a potential bipartisan Iran-war supplemental first. The White House is lobbying aggressively, with meetings at the White House and Camp David, as Johnson aims to lock in support ahead of Budget Committee markup and a House vote, leveraging defense funding inside reconciliation to avoid forcing Democrats to vote directly on military funding.