Speaker Johnson launches sales mission as ‘big, beautiful bill’ hits the Senate

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is on a sales mission for the “big, beautiful bill” full of President Trump’s legislative priorities, defending its contents amid a wave of criticism from his party about the depth of spending cuts, significance of Medicaid changes and the rollback of green-energy tax credits.

Johnson said in multiple interviews that he sent a “long text message” to Elon Musk vouching for the bill after the billionaire tech mogul said he was disappointed with the legislation...