WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet at the White House Monday afternoon with Speaker Mike Johnson, beginning the first of several key legislative weeks for the president’s immigration, economic and tax policy agenda.

The legislating all starts Tuesday, when the House Armed Services and Education and the Workforce committees get to work on their portions of the broader House reconciliation bill, dubbed by the president and supportive Republicans as “one big, beautiful bill.” Johnson, R-La., has been aiming to get the measure to the president’s desk before the Memorial Day recess — just four weeks away.

To keep on schedule, House Republicans will need to be in Washington on Tuesday, and Trump said over the weekend said they should not travel to Michigan for his scheduled rally marking the first 100 days of his second term.

“It is much more important that everyone stay in Washington this week to work hard and fast on all of it – IT MUST BE DONE. We will unleash Economic Prosperity, and accelerate into the Golden Age of America,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “You will be missed, but your work is far too important to take any time off. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Among the Michigan Republicans who have reconciliation-related business to attend to on Capitol Hill is Education and Workforce Chair Tim Walberg. He said on Fox News over the weekend that his panel’s portion of the bill would “help our educational policy moving forward.”

“When you look at the numbers of students [who] have huge student loan debt, and then the past administration requiring general taxpayers pay off those debts for those students who made those contracts — that’s a concern,” Walberg said, referring to student debt forgiveness programs under President Joe Biden.

At least five committees are expected to hold their budget reconciliation markups this week, though not all of the legislative text was yet available as of Monday morning. The biggest pieces of the broader bill, which is essentially a compilation of work from committees subject to the instructions from the budget resolution, could come later. That includes language from the Ways and Means Committee designed to extend the 2017 tax cuts. Once all of the panels complete their drafts, they can be combined and eventually sent to the House floor.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., joined with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and other lawmakers on Sunday to lead a sit-in on the Capitol steps to protest the GOP budget plans. They specifically contested any potential cuts to Medicaid.

“As Democrats, we’re going to continue to stand on the side of the American people, and we will not rest until we bury this reckless Republican budget in the ground,” Jeffries said.

Along with committees, the House floor will be busy this week as well. Headlining the floor agenda is another set of disapproval resolutions under the Congressional Review Act, intended to terminate Biden administration regulations. The list includes Park Service, EPA and Fish and Wildlife Service rules.

But there’s also some popular bipartisan measures due for floor votes under suspension of the rules, an expedited process that requires a two-thirds majority. That includes a consumer-oriented bill that would require transparency in hotel fees and a Senate-passed measure that would require social media platforms to take down nonconsensual intimate imagery of other persons, including those that are AI-generated, and make the knowing publication of such images illegal. That bill, sponsored by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, most recently passed the Senate by unanimous consent in February.

Also among the items on the House agenda: a bill that would provide for awarding congressional gold medals to the 1980 Team USA Olympic men’s hockey team, which prevailed over the Soviet Union in a game that came to be known as the “Miracle on Ice.”

Senate on ambassador nominations

The Senate could be flying under the radar this week as Congress returns to session. While there is the possibility that more CRA resolutions will be added to the Senate agenda as well, the focus will be once again on confirming Trump nominations. Up first is former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., the nominee to be ambassador to China. A cloture vote on his nomination is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Monday.

Once Perdue is confirmed, likely on Tuesday, the Senate is expected to turn to the remaining ambassador nominees that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., filed cloture on before the two-week spring recess:

•Warren Stephens to be ambassador to the United Kingdom.

•Thomas Barrack to be ambassador to Turkey.

•Tilman Fertitta to be ambassador to Italy and San Marino.

Barrack, a billionaire real estate investor who was chair of Trump’s first inaugural committee, was tried and found not guilty in 2022 of being an unregistered foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates. “For three decades, Tom successfully managed a global private equity firm. He is a well respected and experienced voice of reason to a wide range of thought leaders in both political and business circles,” Trump said in his December 2024 statement announcing his intent to nominate Barrack.

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David Lerman contributed to this report.

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