Johnson puts renewing Trump tax cuts at the top of Congress’s agenda

In an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Johnson said that Congress was working with Trump to bring down the cost of living through various methods, particularly instituting tax cuts before the JOBS Act expires in 2025.

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“So that’ll be top of the agenda as well, and then reducing the reckless levels of spending that Biden and Harris perpetuated for four years,” he told host Jake Tapper.

Tapper suggested the tax cuts would come before Congress in the first 100 days, to which Johnson nodded. More cautiously, Johnson said Congress would do its best to enact Trump’s proposed no-tax-on-tips, keeping in mind the possible cost.

“I think that’s an important promise,” he said of Trump’s pledge to end taxes on tips. “I think that it’s one of the reasons that the mandate was so large. The president won, of course, the popular vote and Electoral College, and what looks to be a landslide now. And this is part of … one of the promises that he wants to deliver on.”

“We’re going to we’re going to try to make that happen in the Congress,” Johnson added. “You got to do the math. You got to make sure that these new savings for American people can be paid for and make sure the economy is a pro-growth economy. We know how to do it. We’ve delivered on that before, and we’ll do it again, and I think that will be part of the equation.”

Johnson also said Sunday that he is looking to delay funding until 2025 when Republicans have control of the trifecta.

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“We’re running out of clock, December 20 is the deadline,” Johnson told host Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday. “We’re still hopeful we might be able to get that done, but if not, we will have a temporary measure, I think it would go into the first part of next year and allow us the necessary time to get this done.”

Trump debuted the proposal to end taxes on tips months before the election, leading to a trend of supporters writing messages to the effect of “end taxes on tips” on receipts at restaurants. The proposal appeared popular enough that outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris also promised to end taxes on tips.