As Home Speaker Mike Johnson seeks to retain his grip on the gavel, Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., is demanding “assurances” that Johnson “will not promote us out to the swamp.”
Johnson, who secured the speaker’s gavel final yr, acquired a serious increase on Monday when Trump endorsed him to stay within the position.
“I perceive why President Trump is endorsing Speaker Johnson as he did Speaker Ryan, which is certainly vital. Nonetheless, we nonetheless have to get assurances that @SpeakerJohnson gained’t promote us out to the swamp,” Spartz famous in a submit on X.
“President Trump will have the ability to save America provided that we’ve a speaker with braveness, imaginative and prescient and a plan – additionally public dedication to the American individuals how he’ll assist ship President Trump’s agenda to empty the swamp,” she added in one other tweet.
Spartz had beforehand issued a press release on Monday wherein she known as out Congress’s profligate spending and demanded a plan to perform President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda, one thing which she stated she has not seen from present Home Speaker Mike Johnson.
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“Congress has deserted its constitutional obligation to the American individuals to correctly oversee the spending of their hard-earned cash paid as taxes,” Spartz declared within the assertion. “Our subsequent speaker should present brave management to get our nation again on monitor earlier than this ‘Titanic’ strikes an iceberg at any second.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Johnson’s workplace however no remark was offered.
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In a submit on Fact Social, Trump described Johnson as “an excellent, arduous working, non secular man,’ and declared, “He’ll do the precise factor, and we are going to proceed to WIN. Mike has my Full & Complete Endorsement. MAGA!!!”
Speaker Johnson thanked Trump in a submit on X, noting, “Collectively, we are going to rapidly ship in your America First agenda and usher within the new golden age of America. The American individuals demand and deserve that we waste no time. Let’s get to work!”
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who has stated that he won’t vote for Johnson to stay speaker, maintained his place on Monday after Trump’s endorsement.
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“I respect and assist President Trump, however his endorsement of Mike Johnson goes to work out about in addition to his endorsement of Speaker Paul Ryan. We’ve seen Johnson associate with the democrats to ship cash to Ukraine, authorize spying on Individuals, and blow the price range,” Massie tweeted.