2026-03-11T10:00:34.637Z / CNN
佛罗里达州多拉报道—
议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）和他的领导团队一直难以在选举年议程上达成共识，以解决美国人对经济可负担性和生活成本的主要担忧。
但现在他们面临一个新问题：汽油价格上涨。
在民主党政府时期每加仑汽油价格突破5美元后，共和党人曾无情抨击这一现象。而在总统唐纳德·特朗普决定对伊朗发动战争后，共和党人正面临类似的困境。由于冲突导致关键石油运输咽喉——霍尔木兹海峡几乎关闭，约20%的原油运输由此受阻，汽油价格面临无限期飙升的威胁。
共和党人传递的信息是：只能寄希望于战争尽快结束，原油价格能在11月大选前稳定下来。
“暂时波动，”约翰逊断言。
“一时现象，”众议院共和党第四号人物、众议员莉萨·麦克莱因（Lisa McClain）表示。
“短期波动，”纽约州众议员妮可·马利奥塔基斯（Nicole Malliotakis）说。
其他人，如密苏里州众议员马克·阿尔福德（Mark Alford）则表示，共和党人需要说服选民承受痛苦。
“我认为我们的工作是帮助人们接受这一点，并解释其中的利害关系，”阿尔福德说，“我愿意在加油站多付30%或30美分，以确保伊朗不会拥有能打击美国的核武器。”
这与几周前共和党人在特朗普高尔夫度假村多拉举行的三天闭门会议上讨论的议程截然不同。但随着伊朗问题占据焦点，他们执行议程的时间和票数都已不足。
约翰逊正大力推动共和党人支持今年春季的另一项重大立法行动——去年夏天成功通过特朗普的“超级法案”之后。但他面临着党内和参议院日益增长的质疑。
就连他的首席税务专家、密苏里州众议员杰森·史密斯（Jason Smith）也表示，现在是时候放弃这一努力了。
“我们现在的多数优势比通过第一项和解法案时更小，”史密斯告诉CNN，指的是共和党人去年夏天在参议院以党派线通过该法案时使用的快速预算流程。“我一直说我们需要通过一项‘超级法案’，因为我从未看到两次和解的可能性。我很想做两次，但我也是现实主义者。”
一些共和党人认为，他们需要通过一项党派路线法案来补充对伊朗战争消耗的弹药库存。否则，他们至少需要七名民主党人在参议院帮助他们克服阻挠议事，通过新的资金法案。
但共和党人在去年夏天推动特朗普的大规模法案时，就经历了极其艰难的投票协调。如今众议院多数优势更微弱，领导层需要党内几乎一致的支持才能在众议院通过任何法案。任何对法案持异议的议员都将拥有影响法案的巨大杠杆——而在法案内容和资金来源上存在严重分歧。
此外，约翰逊尚未公布他希望在新的选举年法案中纳入的内容（他称该法案将聚焦生活成本问题），这表明他仍在党内寻求共识。
“请拭目以待，”约翰逊在被问及计划细节时表示。
周二在多拉的会议上，共和党人听取了特朗普高级顾问的简报，包括白宫高级助手詹姆斯·布莱尔（James Blair）和他的前竞选助手克里斯·拉西维塔（Chris LaCivita）。参会成员表示，会议传达的信息是：共和党团体正筹集大量资金，可以打破常规保住众议院席位，他们认为民主党对共和党减税政策的反对将成为秋季竞选的关键议题。
但共和党议员后来表示，在统一信息方面仍面临挑战——尤其是在喜怒无常的总统面前——并且需要确保在伊朗和其他危机占据头条时，能突破选民的认知壁垒。
“人们对油价和天然气价格上涨感到沮丧，这是可以理解的，”阿拉巴马州共和党人、众议员戴尔·斯特朗（Dale Strong）说，“但这是战争。”
然而，总统的首要立法优先事项并非经济议程——而是通过所谓的《SAVE美国法案》，该法案要求投票者提供公民身份证明和选民ID，几乎没有机会在参议院通过。
“必须立即实施，”特朗普在Truth Social平台上发文，“它优先于一切其他事务，必须摆在首位。”
这甚至激怒了党内保守派强硬派，他们要求约翰逊将该法案纳入党派路线法案，以推进共和党经济议程。参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune）多次表示，他没有足够的票数绕过阻挠议事来通过该法案。
“这是现实，我有时必须传达不太好的消息，即票数不支持，”图恩周二表示，“但这就是事实。”
即将退休的华盛顿州共和党人、众议员丹·纽豪斯（Dan Newhouse）在闭门会议上表示，特朗普对《SAVE美国法案》的关注正落入民主党人的圈套——尤其是如果总统坚持威胁，除非该法案通过国会否则拒绝签署其他立法。
“这将成为民主党竞选策略的一部分，”纽豪斯说。
CNN的艾莉森·梅恩（Alison Main）和摩根·里默（Morgan Rimmer）对此报道有贡献。
House Republicans confront Iran war and gas prices as they struggle to push economic agenda
2026-03-11T10:00:34.637Z / CNN
DORAL, Florida—
Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team have been struggling to find consensus behind an election-year agenda to address Americans’ chief concerns over affordability and their cost-of-living.
But now they have a new problem: Rising gas prices.
After hammering Democrats relentlessly over $5-per-gallon gasoline, a threshold that was crossed when Joe Biden was president, Republicans are confronting a similar dilemma in the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to wage war against Iran. Gas prices are threatening to spike indefinitely with the Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint where roughly 20% of crude oil shipments pass through, virtually shut down as a result of the conflict.
Republicans are left with this message: Just hope that the war ends soon and crude oil prices settle in time for November.
“Temporary blip,” Johnson asserted.
“Snapshot in time,” said Rep. Lisa McClain, the No. 4 House Republican.
“Short-term volatility,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York.
Others – like Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri – said Republicans need to convince voters to stomach the pain.
“I think it’s our job to help bring people along to them and explain what’s at stake,” Alford said. “I’m willing to pay 30% or 30 cents more at the pump to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon that’s going to hit the United States.”
It’s not what the GOP thought they’d be discussing weeks ago, as they hashed out their agenda for their three-day retreat here at Trump’s golf resort in Doral. But as Iran is now dominating their focus, they’re running short on time – and votes – to execute their agenda.
Johnson is leaning hard on Republicans to get behind another big legislative push this spring – in the wake of successfully enacting Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” last summer. But he’s facing growing doubts from within his own conference and in the Senate.
And even his top taxwriter, Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri, says it’s time to drop the effort.
“We have a smaller majority now than what we did when we passed the first reconciliation bill,” Smith told CNN, referring to the fast-track budget process Republicans used to pass the measure along party lines in the Senate. “I said all along that we needed to do one big, beautiful bill because I never saw a pathway that two different reconciliations would happen. I would love to do two reconciliations, but I’m also a realist.”
Some Republicans think they’ll need to pass a party-line bill to replenish munitions stocks depleted in the Iranian war effort. Otherwise, they’ll need at least seven Democrats in the Senate to help them overcome a filibuster and pass new funding.
But Republicans had an excruciatingly difficult time wrangling the votes to pass Trump’s massive bill last summer. And with an even slimmer House majority now, leaders will need near unanimity in their conference to get anything out of the House. Any member with an objection to the legislation would have outsized leverage in influencing it – and there are sharp divisions on what to include in the bill and how to pay for it.
Plus Johnson hasn’t even laid out what he wants to see in a new election-year bill that he says will focus on cost-of-living issues, indicating he is still trying to get consensus within his conference.
“Stay tuned,” Johnson said when asked about the details of the plan.
At the Tuesday session in Doral, Republicans heard presentations from some of Trump’s senior advisers, including top White House aide James Blair and his former campaign aide, Chris LaCivita. The message, according to members who attended the session: GOP groups are raising tons of cash and can defy the odds to hold the House, arguing that Democratic opposition to Republicans’ tax cuts will be a salient issue in the fall campaign.
But GOP lawmakers later said the challenge remains in staying unified on their message – a challenge with a mercurial president – and to make sure they can break through to voters as Iran and other crises dominate the headlines.
“People who are frustrated with the increased price of oil and gas. That’s to be expected,” said Rep. Dale Strong, an Alabama Republican. “But this is war.”
But the president’s top legislative priority has not been on an economic agenda – it’s been on passing the so-called SAVE America Act, a measure that would require proof-of-citizenship and voter ID to cast a ballot and has virtually no chance of passing the Senate.
“It must be done immediately,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “It supersedes everything else. MUST GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE.”
It’s even animated House conservative hardliners who are demanding that Johnson include the legislation into a party-line bill to advance the GOP economic agenda. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has repeatedly said he doesn’t have the votes to bypass a filibuster to otherwise pass the legislation.
“It’s just a reality, and I’m a person who has to deliver sometimes the not-so-good news that the math doesn’t add up. But that’s just, those are the facts,” Thune said Tuesday.
Rep. Dan Newhouse, a retiring Washington Republican, said at the retreat that Trump’s focus on the “SAVE America Act” is playing into Democrats’ hands – especially if the president carries through with his threat to refuse to sign legislation until the bill passes Congress.
“It’s going to be part of the Democrat playbook,” Newhouse said.
CNN’s Alison Main and Morgan Rimmer contributed to this report.
