The following is the transcript of an interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 25, 2025.

Speaker Mike Johnson rejected concerns that the "big, beautiful bill" will add to the federal deficit. He called deficit forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office "dramatically overstated." The sweeping package narrowly passed the House last week and now heads to the Senate.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), a fiscal hawk who has openly criticized House Republicans' reconciliation bill, predicted Sunday that there are enough in his flock to stop the process "until the president gets serious about spending reduction and reducing the deficit.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is urging GOP senators to exercise caution in making changes to the sweeping megabill passed through the House last week. "I encourage them to do their work, of course, as we all anticipate,

The Republican lawmakers' concerns underscore the potentially difficult path ahead for the sweeping domestic policy package.

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package. Speaker Mike Johnson defied the skeptics within his ranks and muscled President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval Thursday.

The speaker spent months keeping flare-ups from growing into a conflagration even Donald Trump couldn’t extinguish.

House Speaker Mike Johnson appears set to unveil changes to President Trump’s "big beautiful bill" on Wednesday, including a more generous deduction for state and local taxes (SALT). Johnson confirmed a SALT deal has been struck during a CNN interview Wednesday,