Speaker Mike Johnson is navigating a razor-thin House majority while trying to enact President Trump's agenda. (Getty Images)
Norman is one of several members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus who sits on the budget committee.
With just a razor-thin majority in the House – and by extension, on committees – Republicans can afford dissent from just one or two members to pass anything along party lines.
It's a significant hurdle facing the GOP as they seek to use their House and Senate majorities to pass a sweeping conservative policy overhaul via the budget reconciliation process.
By lowering the threshold for Senate passage from 60 votes to 51 out of 100, the maneuver allows the party in power to skirt its opposition to advance its agenda – provided the items included relate to budgetary and other fiscal matters. The House of Representatives already has a simple majority threshold.
Republicans are hoping to use reconciliation to pass a broad swath of Trump's policy goals, from more funding at the border to removing taxes on tipped and overtime wages.
Rep. Ben Cline said he was optimistic about reaching a deal but that there were ‘a lot of conversations about starting the process from the most conservative position possible.’ (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"The Senate is not as interested in fiscal responsibility, so we recognize the need to set parameters for authorizing committees that encourage that… from the beginning," Cline said Monday.
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Johnson said he wanted the bill to advance through committee this week with a goal of passing an initial House version by the end of February.
Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson's office for comment.
The speaker said on "Fox & Friends" Monday morning of reconciliation talks, "Republicans are working right now to negotiate what that looks like. We don't want to blow a hole in the deficit by extending the Trump-era tax cuts, for example, but we're definitely going to get that extended. So we got to find those savings."
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