Swift passage of Trump bill sought

The speaker of the US House said Sunday he was pushing an “aggressive” timeframe for getting a multi-trillion-dollar bill addressing immigration, tax cuts and more to Donald Trump’s desk by April, within his first 100 days in office.Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow congressional Republicans are eager to help the incoming president enact his campaign promises, including unprecedented border security spending, business deregulation, boosting energy production and raising the US debt ceiling.But with a new razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives and similarly tight Senate margins, the Democratic opposition could stymie the efforts.Johnson said he has strategized with Trump about combining several priorities into one gigantic piece of legislation that could move through Congress under the rules of so-called reconciliation.Such a tool allows budget-related bills to clear the 100-member Senate with a simple majority, rather than a typical 60-vote threshold.