There is still a lot of work to be done, but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) scored a major victory on Feb. 25 when the House narrowly advanced a budget resolution that was necessary for final passage of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.

The victory was not an easy one. Johnson spent the day hosting meetings in his office with Republican holdouts, pushing them to advance the top-line numbers to the proper committees of jurisdiction, which will now turn those instructions into actual legislative text. The top-line budget numbers call for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, the details of which will be determined by the House Ways and Means Committee, and $2 trillion in spending cuts. These are spread among several committees, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has been charged with finding $880 billion in cuts that are expected to come largely from Medicaid.