House Speaker Mike Johnson said he expects to pass most of President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda with one “big, beautiful bill” by Memorial Day.

During an interview on Fox News, Johnson said that Republicans would attempt to include as many policy matters as possible in a massive reconciliation bill to sidestep the 60-vote threshold required to pass most legislation in the Senate.

A simple majority, or 50 votes, is needed in the upper house to pass reconciliation legislation.

“We’re 15 days out from the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump for his second term. And we want to make sure that we’re jump-starting the agenda now over the next two weeks, so that he’s prepared and ready on day one. We have a lot to do, as you know. And we have been putting all the plays together and figuring out the sequence of how we’re going to run those plays. And we’re really excited about it,” Johnson said.

“At the end of the day, President Trump is going to prefer, as he likes to say, one big, beautiful bill. And there’s a lot of merit to that, because we can put it all together, one big up-or-down vote, which can save the country, quite literally, because there are so many elements to it. And it’ll give us a little bit more time to negotiate that and get it right,” Johnson added.

Johnson stated that he will immediately bring certain “low-hanging fruit” proposals on the floor for a vote, including those that deal with the border. However, Johnson stated that the reconciliation package will also include tax cuts, energy permitting reform, and measures related to immigration and deportation.

According to Johnson, Trump also requested that the debt ceiling be resolved by June.

“I think we’re going to have to do it in that bill,” Johnson said about raising or eliminating the debt ceiling.

Asked for a “realistic timeline” for getting the large bill to the president’s desk, Johnson said it would happen “certainly by May, yes.”

Johnson said Republicans are “targeting a vote in the House maybe in the first week of April,” adding that the vote may come “maybe as soon as April 3, and then move it over to the Senate.”

“That would put that bill on the president’s desk for signature by the end of April. That would be fantastic,” Johnson said. “And, in a worst-case scenario, Memorial Day.”

Johnson expressed his belief that combining several legislative issues into a single bill would lessen the possibility of losing members’ support.

“A lot of moving pieces, a lot of things to negotiate, a lot of opinions on all that, so we will be working long, long hours with whiteboards, making sure every Republican is on board, because, remember, I will be dealing with the smallest margin in U.S. history for much of the first 100 days. But we’re going to get it done.”

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He also spoke about the president-elect’s agenda and how they plan to accomplish it.

“We’re ready,” Johnson said. “Look, I think we’re going to get this done. Everybody here in the House Republican Conference understands the necessity of the moment, the urgency of the hour. They know we don’t have time for games and palace intrigue. We’ve got a lot of very important work to do. We have to deliver on the America First agenda.

“We got a mandate in the election. President Trump got 77 million votes and House Republicans almost 75 million. That was a record for us. And that’s a message that we’ve got to stick together. And if we stay unified, no matter how small our margin — and it will be probably the smallest in U.S. history for a short period — we’ve got to get this done, and I think we will,” he said.

He went on to explain that he was not thrilled with the deals he had to make with Democrats to get legislation done in the House but blamed the thin majority Republicans have, which just got smaller, for having to make those concessions.