CSPAN - Washington Journal Joey Garrison
Aired: 2025-01-21
Duration: 02:54


=== First Morning at the White House (02:54) ===

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[00:00:43]  Joining us to give us a sense of what is expected on the first full day of President Trump as a new term is Joey Garrison, who joins us from outside the White House.
[00:00:53]  He's a White House correspondent for USA Today.
[00:00:56]  Mr. Garrison, good morning.
[00:00:58]  Hey, good morning.
[00:00:59]  Thank you for having me.
[00:01:00]  First of all, for those who may not be in the know, exactly where are you in perspective to the White House?
[00:01:05]  Yeah, right on the front lawn of the White House on a cold morning over here.
[00:01:10]  It's the first morning of Trump 2.0.
[00:01:14]  And as you can see, you got the White House there behind me.
[00:01:16]  What's the agenda for this first full day?
[00:01:19]  Well, the big thing today is Trump is going to be welcoming to the White House House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate leader John Thune.
[00:01:27]  And they're going to really start laying out their plans for the long-discussed reconciliation package.
[00:01:36]  There's been, of course, a debate whether to have this in two different bills or one bill.
[00:01:41]  This is going to have the various tax policies proposed by Trump.
[00:01:46]  That includes, of course, continuing the Trump tax cuts from 2017.
[00:01:53]  And there's also going to, you know, in 52 days, the funding of the government runs out.
[00:01:57]  They're going to have to hash out an agreement on how to proceed from there.
[00:02:01]  Another topic of discussion is also the federal aid for the wildfires in California.
[00:02:07]  President Trump is going to be going to California to survey wildfire damage on Friday.
[00:02:12]  When it comes to the House and the Senate, how in agreement are, Mr. What's the President's preference as far as how reconciliation take place?
[00:02:22]  What is the perspective of the House and Senate currently?
[00:02:25]  Well, President Trump wants to have this all in one big package, one bill.
[00:02:28]  But in the Senate, Senate Republicans have talked more of a two piece of legislation track.
[00:02:34]  Johnson is going to be more on board with the one bill approach to this, but it remains to be seen how they're going to move forward.
[00:02:42]  That's going to be all part of what's discussed today here in the White House.
[00:02:48]  We've been showing our viewers at home several executive orders that were signed from inside the Oval Office.