Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) discussed the status of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” and President Trump’s domestic agenda as it stalls in the House with CNN anchor Kasie Hunt.

KASIE HUNT, CNN: So do you think that your colleagues, like Chip Roy, like Ralph Norman, those who are down at the White House, should they just get over it and get on with it? REP. JIM JORDAN (R-OH): I think, well, look, they’re good guys, they’re friends of mine, and I understand their concerns, but it was a 50-50 vote in the Senate. The Vice President of the United States had to come break the tie. Two of the three votes on the Republican side who were against it were moderates. It was Tillis and Collins. Do you think it’s going to get more conservative? I just don’t know how that happens. And then you step back and look. Senator Johnson voted for it, Senator Lee voted for it, Senator Wallace voted for it, Senator Scott voted for it. All kinds of conservative senators supported this legislation. Actually, senators we meet with every single week we’re in session. We work with these guys. Good enough for them, but somehow we’re not going to vote for this. So I think that’s important. And the other thing I would say is this. In politics, it’s just like in sports, momentum matters. Right now, our party, I think, you look at the border being secure under President Trump, you look at the successful mission in Iran, you look at what happened at NATO with getting the other countries and NATO countries to kick in more of their GDP towards the defense. I mean, we’re on a roll. Things are moving in our direction. And now we’re going to stop a bill that cuts taxes as Republicans? I just don’t think that makes sense. So I hope we get this done today and we move on to the next issues and the next things we need to tackle, the things we told the American people that we were going to do. KASIE HUNT: Sir, what’s your least favorite part of this bill? JORDAN: Well, I mean, there’s the subsidies. I get those. I wish President Trump doesn’t like those either. But when you’ve got a three-seat majority in the Senate, you’ve got a handful of seats that put you in the majority in the House. You’ve got to kind of give and take, and that’s just how it is. I said this a couple of years ago in a speech on the floor. Any differences that exist in the Republican Party are pretty darn small compared to the differences between us and the left, the radical left, which now controls the other party. So we had better figure out a way to stick together and get some things done that are consistent with what we told the voters we were going to do. I think that’s the most important thing. I think this bill does it. I think we should support it. KASIE HUNT: Why do you think it’s so unpopular? It’s dramatically unpopular when you look at the partisan split in the country. We’re basically a 50-50 country. This is like underwater by either 20 or 30 points, depending on what poll you read. JORDAN: I will tell you what would be unpopular is if we allow taxes to go up on the families we get the privilege of representing. Hardworking American families don’t want to be paying more to the government. The government that sends their money to, you know, all kinds of ridiculous things that Doge uncovered. I don’t think they want their taxes going up. So I tell you, that would be unpopular. Right now there’s polling out there that says whatever. What I know is I want to make sure parents get a say in where their kids go to school. School choice is an important element, something that we, fundamental principle of our party. I want to make sure their taxes don’t go up. I want to make sure able-bodied people getting your money, your viewers’ money, in our welfare system are going to have to work in order to receive that benefit and that money. And I want to make sure our borders stay secure, which is something that our committee, specifically the Judiciary Committee, worked hard on in this legislation.

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