Johnson has Trump’s ‘Complete’ and ‘Total Endorsement’ for Speaker
Speaker Mike Johnson faces a rebellion when the House returns in a few days and votes for speakership on January 3rd. We know that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) won’t vote for Johnson as Speaker of the House.
President-elect Donald Trump, though, threw his support behind the beleaguered speaker.
“Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement.”
The Republicans have a slim majority. Johnson can only lose two Republican votes.
Massie has posted on X:
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) published a list of demands on Monday morning that Johnson must commit to in order to earn her vote:
“Congress has abandoned its constitutional duty to the American people to properly oversee the spending of their hard-earned money paid as taxes. Our next speaker must show courageous leadership to get our country back on track before this “Titanic” strikes an iceberg at any moment. Severe fiscal calamities often lead to unrest and more government control. If we are serious about governing, our next SPEAKER must COMMIT PUBLICLY to create at least temporary structures in the House for: 1) authorizations; 2) reconciliation offset policies, and 3) spending audits. We also need to engage competent, unbiased “non-swamp” professionals to help us to at least start getting us gradually out of this serious fiscal mess. The current STRUCTURES, with their perverse incentives, have not been working for decades and will not suddenly start working. We must have a vision and a concrete PLAN to deliver on President Trump’s agenda for the American people, which I have not seen from our current speaker despite countless discussions and public promises. The fate of our Republic is at stake and Congress, the ARTICLE 1 BRANCH, with its supreme powers of creating laws and managing our nation’s finances, must start fulfilling its CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES – not selling out our Republic at the expense of our children.”
According to Politico, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has been asking around to determine if the Republicans could have other speakership nominees besides Johnson:
Rep. CHIP ROY (R-Texas) is conducting a temperature check to determine the viability of Rep. JIM JORDAN (R-Ohio) and other possible candidates if MIKE JOHNSON is unable to secure another term with the speaker’s gavel, our Olivia Beavers writes in.Roy’s efforts include attempting to get a read on the roughly 20 House Republicans who opposed Jordan last year during the speakership race that ensued after the ouster of former Speaker KEVIN McCARTHY, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the matter.Such conversations come just days before the Friday floor vote that will determine if Johnson can secure a second term as speaker. It could be a bad sign for Johnson that Roy is trying to find a fallback option: To maintain the gavel, Johnson can’t risk losing the support of more than two House Republicans, and Rep. THOMAS MASSIE (R-Ky.) has already publicly announced his opposition. Roy himself was particularly critical of Johnson after the latest government spending bill passed ahead of the holidays.
Who knows what will happen on January 3. I bet we get a fiasco like we did over McCarthy. I don’t mind. It means the lawmakers won’t be signing and passing stupid bills.
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