Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy argued Sunday that House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) plan to push for a continuing resolution would put more pressure on Trump when he takes office in January, preventing the president-elect from getting “a honeymoon.” However, Scalise argued Johnson’s plan would allow House Republicans to have the White House and the Senate on their side, as they are currently at “an impasse” with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and President Joe Biden.

“And look, if we just gave Chuck Schumer everything that he wanted and ended it this year as Kevin is suggesting, then Chuck Schumer would get about an extra $80 billion in new spending, and President Trump, by the way, does not want that,” Scalise said on Fox Business’s Mornings With Maria Bartiromo. “And so in an ideal world, we’d get a final negotiation, and we’d all be in agreement, and we’d spend less money. You don’t have that with a Democrat-run Senate and Joe Biden in the White House, and so all of that changes next year when President Trump comes in and we get a Republican Senate.”

Scalise also said he and other House lawmakers are speaking with Trump “on a regular basis,” and the president-elect is well aware of Johnson’s plans for a continuing resolution. The House majority leader also said Republicans will work “in sync” with Trump on day one “unlike back in 2017,” and is aiming to be “moving quickly” to accomplish what Trump wants for the nation.

The House majority leader detailed how he spoke to Trump at Mar-a-Lago well before the former president won the 2024 election. He said they spoke about what they would do if they kept control of the House and retook the Senate and the White House.

“We had to win in November, and of course we did with the historic mandate, now we’re going to carry that mandate out, but we’re not just going to start doing that in January,” Scalise said. “We’ve been working on this for months, committee chairs have been doing this, and we’re talking with President Trump’s team on a very regular basis.”

Scalise’s comments mirror what Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said about confirming all of Trump’s Cabinet nominees, assuring that the Republican-controlled Senate would support Trump’s agenda and get his nominees confirmed. Cotton cited how uncommon it is for a president not to get all his nominees confirmed by a Senate controlled by the same party for his reasoning.

On Sunday, incoming deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Republicans, under Trump’s leadership, will finally achieve a secure border for the nation, accomplishing something Republicans have spent decades saying they would do. He added that Trump’s border security plan would be “the biggest domestic policy win in at least 50 years” and that this policy would get to Trump’s desk early on in his administration.